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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 Putting People First
New interface design at the New York Times R&D Lab
Megan Garber of the Nieman Journalism Lab recently visited the New York Times R&D Lab and updates us on the latest interface developments there. The New York Times...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Life, Complexity and Financial Markets
We experimented with several applications of complexity models. Not sure we every truly embraced the idea as a general problem solving technique, but it is one...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Buys Crime Analytics Company
An interesting acquisition. I2 is a company known for pattern recognition solutions. You do wonder how this will be linked to applications like Watson. Pattern...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Careful Consumers, Smarter Marketing, Smarter Machines
In Wharton's long running set of online articles: New Retail Strategies: Offering a Better Fit for Today's Careful Consumers. Among a number of other things...
From Schneier on Security
Job Opening: TSA Public Affairs Specialist
This job can't be fun: This Public Affairs Specialist position is located in the Office of Strategic Communications and Public Affairs (SCPA), Transportation Security...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Changing the Consumer / Brand Relationship
This article essentially describes mobile applications that use 'game dynamic' style relationship building. Looking at potential applications in the aisle for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Older Brains Better for Strategy
In Futurepundit: An examination using strategy games. Is older better for strategy?
From Computational Complexity
Do we use Technology before its perfected? Should we?
During Hurricane Irene I lost power for about 18 hours. I was actually pleased how short this was. PEPCO (my power company) did not tell us when power would beprior...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-08-31
Software Freedom Day It's just two weeks away, get ready to join in! (tags: OpenSource FOSS Software Freedom) open80211s Meshed WiFi in every Linux device? Yes...
From Schneier on Security
The Effects of Social Media on Undercover Policing
Social networking sites make it very difficult, if not impossible, to have undercover police officers: "The results found that 90 per cent of female officers were...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Python Tools for Visual Studio V1.0 Released
A lot of people are looking into using Python in computer science education these days. Of course a lot of people are also using Visual Studio for Visual BasicPython...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Informs Analytics Magazine
The latest issue of Informs Analytics Magazine. News and topical articles on analytical methodologies from the premier business analysis and marketing science professional...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IFTF Releases their 2020 Future Map
I blogged for the Institute for the Future for several years. They consulted with our C-suite and we were often asked to follow up. The are always saying some...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Jaron Lanier Flips on Wal-Mart, Apple and Google
We met computer scientist Jaron Lanier while doing work with the Institute for the Future. In the Edge he talks about the local global flip. Quite a long rant...
From Schneier on Security
Facebook Privacy Guide
It's actually pretty good. Also note that the site is redesigning its privacy. As we learned from Microsoft, nothing motivates a company to improve its security...
From Schneier on Security
Details of the RSA Hack
We finally have some, even though the company isn't talking: So just how well crafted was the e-mail that got RSA hacked? Not very, judging by what F-Secure found...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A&P: A Former Unfair Retailer?
It has happened before: In the WSJ: How a Grocer Bagged Profits At its peak, the chain had nearly 16,000 stores. Critics charged it with competing unfairly by...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Seeking US Ignite White Papers
The NSF’s CISE Directorate has issued a call for white papers for the new US Ignite initiative: The National Science Foundation invites white papers from individuals...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kosmix and WalMart Labs
Been following the acquisition of the Kosmix search solution by Wal-Mart for some time.Now ReadWriteWeb has an article with some speculation about what it is all...
From Wild WebMink