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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
Timed Automata and Scheduling Resources
A largely technical article in the CACM that reminded me of the complexity of scheduling and resourcing activities in real time. " ... The problems of time-dependent...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Your Smartphone is Listening in
A post on Apps that can listen in and determine what you are watching on TV. We will start to see more of this sensor-based application that can understand your...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Sets to Shut Down
The curiously interesting 'Google Sets' feature will be shut down on September 5. We experimented with this when it was first released. It provided a form of...
From Michael Nielsen
Visiting Europe
I’ll be in Europe for the next couple of weeks, giving talks about open science. I’m interested in adding more events to my schedule, so if you’re interested in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Riot Psych
Fascinating overview with links on some late research on crowd psychology. Do people lose their individulaity in a crowd as is popularly found in film and literature...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Viability of QR Codes
Good thoughts in Mashable about the viability of QR Codes. I think that ultimately they will be a transitional technology, like all bar codes, but there is considerable...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
SSTD 2011 Vision & Challenge Track Winners Announced
The following is a special contribution to this blog from Shashi Shekhar and Mohamed Mokbel, faculty in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Market and Hurricane Preparedness
M J Perry writes about how companies like Wal-Mart and Home Depot can deliver predictable disaster materials through the magic of the modern supply chain. The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IDEO Apps
We used IDEO consulting for several components of the innovation centers. Napkin Laps Turns IDEO's Innovation Process Into Web Apps For All ... An off-the-shelf...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Testing the Kroger PAL System
In aisle checkout with Kroger PAL. We tested extensively the concept of shoppers using devices like this in the retail innovation center. Providing new kinds...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Fishing in Ulleungdo, Korea
The industry is in decline: A generation ago, most of the island's 10,000 residents worked in the squid industry, either as sellers like Kim or as farmer-fishermen...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Forecasting Hurricane Irene
Despite some slight weakening over the last few hours, Hurricane Irene is being called the “storm of a lifetime” — on its current path, it will affect over 65 million...
From Schneier on Security
Preventing the Theft of Wire Cutters
This is a picture of a pair of wire cutters secured to a table with a wire. Someone isn't thinking this through....
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CISE Names Deputy Assistant Director
The NSF’s CISE Directorate today announced
From Wild WebMink
? The Entrepreneur
Following on from my Road To (Software) Freedom posting, I’ve written today about why I think the need for contributor agreements is a matter of choice and not...
From Schneier on Security
The Problem with Using the Cold War Metaphor to Describe Cyberspace Risks
Nice essay on the problems with talking about cyberspace risks using "Cold War" metaphors: The problem with threat inflation and misapplied history is that there...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On High Performance Analytics
SAS Voice on high performance analytics. " ... The promise of high-performance analytics, as I understand it, is this: Regardless of how you store your data or...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Encouraging Entrepreneurial Spirit
Hubspot as a case study in getting people excited about their jobs. " ... Everyone talks about wanting entrepreneurial employees. At HubSpot, a marketing software...
From Wild WebMink
? Classifications
Court Ruling Opens The Door To Rejecting Many Software Patents As Being Mere ‘Mental Processes’ The incremental adjustment of software patent law in the USA continues...
From The Eponymous Pickle