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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
Controlling Swarms of Tiny Robots
From IEEE Spctrum: We proposed a variant of this idea years ago. Unleash a hoard of tiny robotic 'turtles' in a confined space like a warehouse to take inventory...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Web Illiteracy
This ReadWriteWeb piece struck home. Lately I have been in a number of conversations where I discovered that less is known about operational aspects of the Internet...
From The Eponymous Pickle
About Faces
Revisiting About Face: The Secrets of Emotionally Effective Advertising, by Dan Hill. What is more primal than a face? A good portion of our brains are devoted...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Impact Games
From a colleague: ... A company called ImpactGames www.impactgames.com and it
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Future of Quantum Computing
A good description and view of the future of quantum computing, by IBM and others. In Computerworld: " ... Quantum computers could provide a big boost to technologies...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Why Chrome?
I wondered about this question. It just seems much less versatile than other browsers. It is fast. Is it in the Chromification of the operating system?
From The Eponymous Pickle
Continuous Web Showcase
Attended an excellent Web Startup Showcase today hosted by ContinuousWeb today. One of the best I have ever seen, with some excellent presenting projects. Hosted...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Jeff Bezos on Innovation
Be stubborn on the vision and flexible on the details. Jeff Bezos on innovation in Techdirt
From The Noisy Channel
Foo for Thought
Last weekend I had the extraordinary privilege to attend Foo Camp, an annual gathering of about 250 Friends Of O’Reilly (aka Foo). Tim O’Reilly, Sara Winge, and...
From Schneier on Security
Fourth SHB Workshop
I'm at SHB 2011, the fourth Interdisciplinary Workshop on Security and Human Behavior, at Carnegie Mellon University. This is a two-day invitational gathering of...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
ITA Software
Remember the electronic reservation system that you used to book your summer vacation this year? Well, in all likelihood, it was powered by information technology...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Barbara Liskov receives an honorary degree from Northwestern
… and a shout-out early in Stephen Colbert’s hilarious commencement address. Congratulations Barbara!
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Beautiful Deep-Sea Squid Picture
From the Telegraph (also here).
From Michael Nielsen
Data-driven intelligence
I’ve started a new blog, on data-driven intelligence. In future, this is where technical posts like my Google Technology Stack posts will go. There are two posts...
From Schneier on Security
Court Ruling on "Reasonable" Electronic Banking Security
One of the pleasant side effects of being too busy to write longer blog posts is that -- if I wait long enough -- someone else writes what I would have wanted to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Google Analytics
The latest version of Google Analytics now includes new breakdowns of regions in many other parts of the world. Very useful additional extraction. See alsoGoogle...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
On Telling the World My Life is About to Change
I recently unleashed the following announcement to Facebook and Twitter:BabyFactory.RequestNewInstance(BABY_TYPE_GEEK);Pregnant. by rui guerraThat's right! I'mView...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Internet of Things
A good overview article in the BBC on the Internet of Things. Really a relatively old idea that we explored with MIT with such ideas like replacing the bar code...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog