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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
Quantitative Scent Test
The launch of a method to better understand reaction to brand scent. A former area of research and retail innovation application of mine. Measurement always helps...
From Putting People First
David Report: Closed Wallets, Closed Minds
We are increasingly suffering from consumption fatigue, but brands and designers have yet to acknowledge the fact, reckons David Carlson in Closed Wallets, Closed...
From Putting People First
Pamphlet: The Internet of People for a Post-Oil World
The Internet of People for a Post-Oil World Christian Nold and Rob van Kranenburg Paperback, 67 pages The Architectural League of New York In Situated Technologies...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Related Finalists in the Innovative Education Forum 2011
Yesterday Microsoft announced the second round of finalists for the Innovative Education Forum. Over in the Teacher Tech blog they listed brief summaries of all...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook Facial Recognition
In GigaOm. FaceBook facial recognition. Technology and reactions to that most personal of possessions, your face. Is it a privacy concern? And are the privacy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dispelling Myths about Industry Clusters
Mark Montgomery of Kyield writes: " .... I was interviewed this week about the New Mexico Analytics Cluster project with an article to be published within theMyths...
From The Noisy Channel
Christos Faloutsos: Mining Billion-Node Graphs
As promised, here is a video of CMU professor Christos Faloutsos‘s recent tech talk at LinkedIn on “Mining Billion-Node Graphs“. Enjoy! And check out our next week’s...
From Schneier on Security
25% of U.S. Criminal Hackers are Police Informants
I have no idea if this is true: In some cases, popular illegal forums used by cyber criminals as marketplaces for stolen identities and credit card numbers have...
From My Biased Coin
ITCS
I was asked to post the call for papers for the (renamed) Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science conference. (I'm glad they finally changed the name -- see...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Open Social Learning Guild
In the ACM: Ashwin Ram on Open Social Learning. Some good ideas about how to take the obsessions of the youner generation and use them to make learning more efficient...
From Computational Complexity
The Longest Day
Tuesday at FCRC. 7 AM: A grad student at Northwestern administers my final exam at 9 AM Chicago time. He has my mobile number just in case but luckily I neverpaper...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Generosity at Work
Harvard post on key success strategies at work, focusing on generosity. Very well put, it is not always reciprocated, but almost always works.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Is Wikipedia anti-intellectual?
Sander recently posted a provocative piece where he argues that geeks suffer from anti-intellectualism. To some extend, his stance is that democratic sites such...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Revenue Performance Management
An overview of Revenue Performance Management (RPM), which we were always doing, but saw some traction a few years ago. It appears to be driven increasingly to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Linked in Games
In Mashable. You can now play a whimsical Tetris-like game in Linkedin with profile head-shots. Does not drive you to a serious goal. But could make you stay on...
From Putting People First
WHO report on mHealth
The World Health Organisation has just issued a major (free) report on mHealth, entitled “mHealth: New horizons for health through mobile technologies“. Abstract...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
TouchStudio
OK you have a smart phone and you want to create an application for it. But you don
From Wild WebMink