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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
Prominences in the Sun
Not in the usual realm of things posted here, but NASA's new Stereo satellites gives us the ability to see some amazing things about the violence occurring in the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cyber-Emergency Policy
Good piece in E-Commerce times on US Emergency Policy. Who gets to control what aspects of access or interactions during an emergency?
From The Noisy Channel
Life, the Universe, and SEO Revisited
A couple of years ago, I wrote a post entitled “Life, the Universe, and SEO” in which I considered Google’s relationship with the search engine optimization (SEO)...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Perspective and Spatial Relationships for Interface Design
Did you ever notice the moment we went from having a maximum of two monitors on our desktop side-by-side to having multiple displays, such as monitors and mobile...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robot Marathon
The first two-legged robot marathon has started in Osaka Japan. 42 km in an indoor track. See the video.
From Wild WebMink
? Community Effects
The Document Foundation reaches fund raising target It took just a week for over 2000 donors to donate the
From The Eponymous Pickle
Creating Stories: Storify
Brought to my attention: Storify: Now investigating. Create stories using social media. Turn what people post on social media into compelling stories.Collect the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Linkedin Company Search
In Readwriteweb: Linkedin has a new search capability that lets you look at how you are connected to companies. A nice idea with some subtle capabilities. Though...
From Putting People First
Reflections on the LIFT conference on Core77
A few weeks ago, I went to the LIFT conference in Geneva, Switzerland. It took me a some time to write up all my (personal) thoughts on the presentations, but now...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Way for Analytics
My colleague, Sammy Haroon, writes about a new way for analytics.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neurocinema
Good Fast Company article on Neurocinema: The use of neural scanning techniques, like those used in Neuromarketing, to understand how film viewers react to on...
From The Eponymous Pickle
2011 the Year for Semantic Technology
Good overview article on the opportunities for semantic technologies this year. " ... Semantic technology will increasingly be recognized as a tool that helps...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Changes Search
Google announced changes in it's search algorithms yesterday. Initially only implemented for US searchers. Which they say will improve the quality of results...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Interactive China Province Map
Mark Perry points to an excellent Economist interactive map of the Chinese provinces, their population, GDP, exports, etc. Useful data for modeling. Could have...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-02-25
UK Government defines open standards as royalty free Excellent move here, although of course the devil is in the details. The big problem with getting open source...
From Schneier on Security
HBGary and the Future of the IT Security Industry
This is a really good piece by Paul Roberts on Anonymous vs. HBGary: not the tactics or the politics, but what HBGary demonstrates about the IT security industry...
From Wild WebMink