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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
Dropping the Dollar Bill
A clear case for replacing all US denominations below five dollars with coins. Why has it not worked in the past? Because they didn't remove the dollar bill. ...
From Wild WebMink
? Subscriptions Article Available
My article discussing why open source subscriptions should not be procured with the same assumptions and procedures as proprietary software is now available in...
From Schneier on Security
Using Language Patterns to Identify Anonymous E-Mail
Interesting research. It only works when there's a limited number of potential authors: To test the accuracy of their technique, Fung and his colleagues examined...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 14 March 2011
This highlight of my week last week was being in Dallas Texas for SIGCSE. This is by far my favorite conference of the year. I was able to connect with a bunchTop...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smartphone Enabled Cancer Detection
A protype that is a good example of mobile sensor-based data display and analysis: At the Singularity Hub: " ... Massachusetts General Hospital that have knocked...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Circles
It has been rumored that Google will soon launch a new social networking system called Google Circles. Do we need a new social network? The emphasis stated is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
TED Opens up Data and Talks
FastCompany reports that the TED conference will open their talks and related data sources with an API around midyear. Creative idea.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fumbling the Future
Mini review and current perspective of the book:"Fumbling the Future: How Xerox Invented, Then Ignored, the First Personal Computer is the title of a classic 1998...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Foursquare and Amex Test Loyalty Marketing
A local merchant test to see how Foursquare can be used to build loyalty: " ... The pilot program started Friday and will run through Tuesday, March 15. Participating...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SMS Codes for Postage in Europe
In Readwriteweb: Could it be that postage stamps are on their way out? I am a long time student of the history of the postage system , and this makes sense. Of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tracking Haiti Water with RFID Tags
Another example of how touchless scanners using smartphone can be used for rapid identification. " ... Deep Springs International is using NFC-enabled phones provided...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Media Success
What does social media success look like? " ... While firms are realizing that social media networks harbor the potential to provide intelligence and engage customers...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Python Tools for Visual Studio
Microsoft has just released the Python Tools for Visual Studio add-in (Beta) . This add-in lets programmers write Python code with Ironpython, CPython, debugIronPython...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-03-12
Sun.com Will Disappear After June 1 Looks like we have even more link corrosion coming up. Would it really be so hard just to freeze all the content and leave it...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Legality of Selling Yellow Margarine
MJ Perry on the inefficiency of using laws to distort free markets. Using the US case of Margarine.
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Senate Passes Patent Reform Bill
On March 8 the Senate passed a bill intended to reform the patent system. S. 23, the Patent Reform Act of 2011, would take steps to harmonize the U.S. patent system...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Webcast Series for K-12 educators and teacher recognition program
I received the following from the Microsoft Innovative Educators program today and thought it was worth sharing. We have a launched a new Microsoft Innovative...
From The Eponymous Pickle