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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
Payday Timing
Roger Dooley posts: Walmart CEO confirms Payday Timing Effect. Was thought to be common knowledge, but had never seen a specific 'proof' of the effect. Though...
From The Eponymous Pickle
EmPower Background
Recently I had a meeting with EmPower, custom market and media intelligence services company. Here is an overview of their background and services.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kevin Emmons EKR Blog
Newly discovered blog by Kevin Emmons that covers, among other things, neuromarketing. Most recently: Android Phones Using Neuromarketing, where he talks about...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Where Do Female Computer Scientists Come From
As someone who is mildly addicted to statistics and who has a degree in Sociology (really) I found this article in Fast Company very interesting on several levels...
From Wild WebMink
? Abuses
Barnes & Noble Charges Microsoft with Misusing Patents to Further an Anticompetitive Scheme Against Android Barnes and Noble’s strongly-worded response to Microsoft’s...
From Schneier on Security
The Cyberwar Arms Race
Good paper: "Loving the Cyber Bomb? The Dangers of Threat Inflation in Cybersecurity Policy," by Jerry Brito and Tate Watkins. Over the past two years there has...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The Case Against Double-blind Peer Review
Many scientific journals use double-blind peer review. That is, the authors submit their work in a way that cannot be traced back to them. Meanwhile, the authors...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Open Access Book: Ubiquitous Computing
We already live in a world where there is ubiquitous computing. Yet there are many complex challenges to combine, direct and have ubiquitous computing ideas link...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Problem Solving For All Times
I am not a carpenter. I know carpenters. One of my friends and co-workers is a well-trained restoration carpenter. The work he has done in his own house is to drool...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Consumer Still Needs to be Touched
The sense of touch is nicely brought up in this interview with Estee Lauder. While vision is by far the most important sense interacted with in the computer age...
From Apophenia
Tumblr disappeared me
People wonder why I have control issues. I refuse to use third party email services because I’m terrified of being locked out of my account (as I was when Yahoo...
From Schneier on Security
Social Solidarity as an Effect of the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks
It's standard sociological theory that a group experiences social solidarity in response to external conflict. This paper studies the phenomenon in the Unitednew...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Retailer: Supply Chain's Last Mile: Workshop May 6
Reminder: The event is free, but you MUST preregister to attend. Please RSVP to [email protected] to preregister.The Department of Operations & Business Analytics...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
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Are you working on a really exciting research project? Do you have a cool finding? Well, how about making a short video describing it — and getting paid in the...
From Computational Complexity
Don't Blame the Tech
Short Announcements: STOC Poster Submission Deadline is Monday. Jaime Morgenstern set up a google groups page for students to find roommates for STOC, FCRC andTechnology...
From The Eponymous Pickle
History of the Internet Talk
20th Annual E. Leonard Arnoff Memorial Lecture (Repost) on the Practice of Management Science
From The Eponymous Pickle
Making Work Visible
New book that looks to be of interest. There seems to have been somewhat less interest in ethonographic research lately after a flurry of interest in the early...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Finding Experts
In the ACM: It's Who You know Search algorithm designers have in recent years worked out ways for computers to identify experts in any particular area of knowledge...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New MIT Media Lab Director Interview
We were part of the media lab for a few years and I led a number of tours through the facility. It was good to hear of the changes. Anything that could bring...
From The Eponymous Pickle