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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
Consmr Rates Package Goods
A new service, Consmr hopes to be the Yelp of Consumer Packaged Goods. The name is somewhat hard to follow. Also, how much rating is actually done for these types...
From Schneier on Security
Status Report on the War on Photography
Worth reading: Morgan Leigh Manning, "Less than Picture Perfect: The Legal Relationship between Photographers' Rights and Law Enforcement," Tennessee Law Review...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Panopticon
Stephen Few looks at the data visualization vendor Panopticon. Took a brief look at them some time back, and they are certainly worth a closer examination. As...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mismeasure of Man is UnBiased
In the NYT: Have read with great interest the books of Stephen J Gould for years. Now one of his most famous findings, in the Mismeasure of Man, turns out to be...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM's 100th Anniversary
In school I was offered a job working with IBM on disk drive analysis, but I went in another direction. In my first enterprise job I worked with their optimization...
From Putting People First
Experientia wins Italian National Prize for Innovation in Services
Experientia wins Italian National Prize for Innovation in Services, sponsored by the Italian government and Confcommercio. The President of the Republic, Giorgio...
From Putting People First
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From Schneier on Security
Yet Another Way to Evade TSA's Full-Body Scanners
Last night, at the Third EPIC Champion of Freedom Awards Dinner, we gave an award to Susie Castillo, whose blog post and video of her treatment in the hands of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Analytics at IBM
In Technology Review: IBM researchers are working on systems that can analyze data to tell businesses eactly what action to take ...Visiting artificial intelligence...
From Wild WebMink
? OpenOffice.Org and the LibreOffice Imperative
As expected, the Apache Software Foundation took the first steps to admitting the OpenOffice.org project to the Apache community, following Oracle’s IBM-designed...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
US Kodu Cup Winners Announced (2011)
Yesterday the Unlimited Potential team announced the winners of the inaugural US Kodu Cup competition. Today we are announcing the winners of the first U.S...
From Wild WebMink
? New Cat
It was with huge sadness that we discovered last month that our cat Toby had died suddenly in a neighbour’s garden. He was in perfect condition. He had breakfast...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Learning Management System
A few weeks ago took a look at an example of a learning management system that had a social component. Here is another that was pointed out to me Interactyx: ...
From My Biased Coin
NY Times on Computing
A couple of days ago there was a NY Times article on computing being cool (again), including a shout-out to Harvard's own CS 50 and of course the Social Network...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stanford Spatial History Project
Fascinating work at Stanford. Another example of how visualization can me used to organize and gain insight from very complex data. Always wanted to do thisStanford's...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of June 13
June 14 Conference: The Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference takes place (continues through June 16) Georgetown University Law Center, 600 New Jersey Avenue...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IEEE Computer on Smart Cities
The June 2011 issue of IEEE Computer is devoted to the topic of Smart Cities. The individual articles are not online yet. The topic, pioneered by IBM, is instructional...
From The Eponymous Pickle