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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
Rules of Exception:Adapting the Process
In ReadWriteWeb: The way to address this is to have the process have the ability to adapt to changes. That can and has been done. It does not need AI, just...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Macy's and Predictive Analytics
How Macy's uses predictive analytics. Visualization and other techniques. " ... The machinery of predictive analytics is only as good as the human-engineered...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Fast computation of scalar products, and some lessons in optimization
Given two arrays, say (1,2,3,4) and (4,3,1,5), their scalar product is simply the sum of the products: 1
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Low Level Programming
A blog post by Andy Firth, an Engineer Architect at Bungie, called The demise of the low level Programmer is getting some attention lately. In the post he lists...
From Computational Complexity
My Cruise Vacation
Last week, my wife and I took a vacation to the Caribbean on the biggest cruise ship there is. I like cruising, just relaxing, swimming, reading, eating, drinking...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-08-11
Apple, publishers conspired against $9.99 Amazon e-books, says lawsuit It's not enough to be the richest company in the world. Everyone else has to fail as well...
From Schneier on Security
Security Flaws in Encrypted Police Radios
"Why (Special Agent) Johnny (Still) Can
From The Eponymous Pickle
WiFi at McDonalds
I have now been a long time user of Wifi in the wild and note the many ways that it is applied. In some cases simply, in other places logging you out periodically...
From Putting People First
Mobile Learning Toolkit published
The mobile phone is now a ubiquitous item even among the world
From The Eponymous Pickle
Meeting Wiz Appears in Smart Meeting Mag
Russell Brumfield, 'the Wiz', who we have worked with in the area of smart meeting technology and scent delivery strategies, appears in the August 2011 issue of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Semantic Webs in the Enterprise
The movement of the semantic web into the enterprise. One domain area at a time. I have seen this direction as well. Creating a completely generic solution,even...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kindle in the Browser
Amazon now offers a Kindle application for the Safari and Chrome Browsers (others coming) for access to the book reading cloud. I use their App on the iPhone...
From Schneier on Security
GPRS Hacked
Just announced: Nohl's group found a number of problems with GPRS. First, he says, lax authentication rules could allow an attacker to set up a fake cellular base...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
PCAST Sustainability Report Emphasizes
The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) released a report titled Sustaining Environmental Capital: Protecting Society and Economy,
From Wild WebMink
? Amazon Escapes The App Trap
As I predicted in June, Amazon has quietly launched read.amazon.com, a full-featured HTML 5 version of the Kindle that runs perfectly on the iPad, looks for all...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Collaborative Asynchronous Searching
I recently mentioned SearchTeam. I see it has now been looked at and reviewed in detail in Information Today, Note in particular the description of the Semantic...
From Schneier on Security
"Taxonomy of Operational Cyber Security Risks"
I'm a big fan of taxonomies, and this -- from Carnegie Mellon -- seems like a useful one: The taxonomy of operational cyber security risks, summarized in Table...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Science Before Programming
For most people the first real computer science course is introduction to programming. It may be called something else but effectively what it is is a course that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Benchmark for AI
In CACM: Top chess players can now be defeated by computer programs. But this has not been the case for the Japanese game Go. New methods use Monte Carlo simulation...
From Wild WebMink