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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 Daniel Lemire's Blog
The Web is killing database systems
A typical enterprise computing architecture relies on databases, professionally managed by DBAs. Developers grow applications which all update or query the same...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google to Buy Motorola
We worked with Motorola and Symbol, a company it bought, to understand technology in retail. Now Google is buying Motorola for an estimated 12 Billion. Google...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gesture Technology
Gestures are a way to have consumers interact with systems in retail. One of our areas of exploration was to understand this dynamic. The Canadian formGestureTek...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-08-15
Google's Real Names Policy Is Evil This policy is amazingly misguided – it's like Franco trying to stamp out Catalan by banning baby names not on the state list...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
A Robot That Bakes Cookies
Ever tried baking — yes, baking — and found it challenging? Well, try teaching it to a robot. That’s just what a group of researchers at MIT’s Computer Science...
From Schneier on Security
New, Undeletable, Web Cookie
A couple of weeks ago Wired reported the discovery of a new, undeletable, web cookie: Researchers at U.C. Berkeley have discovered that some of the net’s mostfinally...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 15 August 2011
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From The Eponymous Pickle
MobileWorks: Mobile Human Sourcing Intelligence
Long a follower of human and by extension crowd sourcing human intelligence tasks. Humans are just much better at efficiently performing certain tasks than machines...
From The Eponymous Pickle
If Berners-Lee Had Patented the Web
If Berners-Lee had sought and received a patent for the Web, it would just now be coming out of patent protection. The consequences of that? What does that tell...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Windows Phone Development Training Online
SO you probably know that a new version of the Windows Phone software is coming very soon. If you are planning on teaching phone development you may also be thinking...
From Wild WebMink
? Artist Sampler Is A Masterpiece
If you enjoy listening to good singer-songwriter music, chances are that you’ll love the sampler that Amazon.Com is giving away free this week (sadly the same sampler...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Overview of Business Intelligence
A good semi technical overview of BI in CACM: " ... Business intelligence (BI) software is a collection of decision support technologies for the enterprise...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Free Course Gives Rise to Interesting Questions
A colleague of mine, Sebastian Thrun, has decided that education should be free and open to all. Just over a week ago, he created a website: http://www.ai-class...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gamification Wiki
This looks to be a useful resource. About game mechanics and other resources.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Open Source Sensing
The Foresight Institute on Open Source Sensing. " ... Establishing standards now for current and near future widespread sensing based upon smart phones owned by...
From Schneier on Security
Interview with Me
Here's an interview with me from the Homeland Security News Wire.
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Policy Highlights from Communications of the ACM
Below is a list of items with policy relevance from the June issue of Communications of the ACM. As always, much of the material in CACM is premium content, and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How an Innovation Effort can get it Right, Mostly
A very good post and video about how newspapers saw their future in the early 1990s. Which describes how a Knight Ridder innovation group saw the future of...
From The Eponymous Pickle