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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart and Grabble
Wal-Mart recently acquired the Australian POS technology company Grabble, Then added it to its Wal-Mart Labs group. Another indication of the retail giant'sin...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tracking Mall Cellphones
An approach I am well aware of, shoppers are informed of it happening, and in general does not personally identify anyone. The data is precious to understand shopper...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Partial History Knowledge Navigation
Long-time inspiration David Sibbet posts about how Alan Kay and others inspired the iPad and points to a number of future looking Apple publications that I remember...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Currency: Bitcoin
In Wired: The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin. A detailed history of this digital currency concept. An interesting but sometimes mysterious idea, that I thought was...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Consensus Point Prediction Markets
Robin Hanson's Prediction markets blog. He has a post on the GE Healthymagination Challenge crowdsourcing effort. Plus lots more of interest that is worth following...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Programming for Absolute Beginners from Channel 9
Channel 9 has just launched an absolute beginner series to help people learn to program. There are two versions of the Development for Absolute beginners materials...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
My Thanksgiving "Vacation"
I just returned from a week in Costa Rica. Unlike many foreign visitors, who land in San Jose to hop in cars and tour buses to get away to the beautiful white sand...
From The Eponymous Pickle
DunnhumbyUSA CEO Leads by example
In the local press: good article on Dunnhumby USA's corporate culture, style and analytic approaches used to track shopper loyalty. I was part of an early meeting...
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Amazing Facts About McDonalds
A set of slides that provide some interesting facts about the global reach and impactful magnitude of the McDonald's Corporation.
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Cephalopod Art Conference
There was an interdisciplinary cephalopod art conference earlier this year, in Minneapolis. Videos of the conference are available online. As usual, you can also...
From The Noisy Channel
CIKM 2011 Industry Event: Ed Chi on Model-Driven Research in Social Computing
This post is part of a series summarizing the presentations at
From The Eponymous Pickle
Thinking Fast and Slow
In the NYT Book review: A review of Thinking Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman. The dismantling of 'Homo Economicus'. Heady stuff that has stimulated a lot...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Subscribe to My Feed
This blog has always had an RSS feed for syndication. If you find it useful please do subscribe. This blog has been around for a number of years. It parallels...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Workers and Technology
Michael S Malone debates if workers are being left behind by technology. Quite obviously, no. Workers are taking to technology rapidly, and that technology is...
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Medical Databases and Better Care
I am currently looking at applications and intelligence in medical data. Which led me to this recent article. " ... UpToDate is one of several online services...
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Social Media vs Knowledge Management
In the HBR blog: " ... On the surface, social media and knowledge management (KM) seem very similar. Both involve people using technology to access information....
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
A Recap of Supercomputing
Last week in Seattle a record attendance of more than 11,000 people from throughout
From Schneier on Security
Android Malware
The Android platform is where the malware action is: What happens when anyone can develop and publish an application to the Android Market? A 472% increase ingain...
From The Eponymous Pickle
