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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 Wild WebMink
Community Escrow
My essay on Community Escrow, one of the differentiating features of open source software, is now available in the Essays section.
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Neuroscience Blog
Mind Hacks informs us of what looks to be a new and useful neuroscience blog: Brain Detectives. " ... This fall I became the writer-in-residence at the Montreal...
From Schneier on Security
Crowdsourcing Surveillance
Internet Eyes is a U.K. startup designed to crowdsource digital surveillance. People pay a small fee to become a "Viewer." Once they do, they can log onto the site...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Metaio's Augmented Press
For those interested in the topic of augmented reality, I suggest subscribing to Metaio's Augmented Press Newsletter. Largely commerical examples that Metaio is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Don't Need this Internet Thing
A significant percentage of US homes don't see the need for the Internet. Ars Technica reports on a US Commerce department survey/study. Highly surprising.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Opportunities in Shopper Marketing Grow
The GMA has reported in a recent study that shopper marketing (aka merchandising) is booming. More in a recent Progressive grocer article. " ... 83% of CPG companies...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter Looks for a Billion with India Healthcare Startup
An interesting development showing P&G's interest in healthcare delivery. " ... Healthpoint Services is a small startup with a big goal: transforming rural healthcare...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brain-Computer Interfaces and Daydreams
Is it possible to eavesdrop on a daydream? Is this a byproduct of the long awaited brain computer interface. In IEEE Spectrum.
From Computational Complexity
A Breakthrough Circuit Lower Bound
On October 8th, when in my graduate complexity course as we discussed the 1987 Razborov-Smolensky result that one can't compute the Modp by constant-depth polynomial...
From Schneier on Security
Kahn, Diffie, Clark, and Me at Bletchley Park
Saturday, I visited Bletchley Park to speak at the Annual ACCU Security Fundraising Conference. They had a stellar line of speakers this year, and I was pleased...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How Does Kinect Work?
Chances are you have heard about the Kinect for Xbox 360 which lets you play games without a controller. The Kinect is a full body motion sensing device that lets...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Consultants Building Apps
Quite interesting piece in ReadWriteWeb. Consulting is by its nature a complex and expensive venture. It can price itself out of the needs it seeks to deliver...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Public funding for science?
Terence Kealey has been arguing against public funding of science. Is it efficient to fund science with government dollars? He argues that when science is mostly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Partner Intelligence
I met today with Doug Lautzenheiser of Partner Intelligence. " ... general manager of BI services, has over 20 years of experience in the industry and has served...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Risk of inflight WiFi
Security guru Bruce Schneier suggests that the recent bomb plots could mean the end of in-flight Wifi. His blog can be very interesting in security topics.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Surprising the User
Certainly in a traditional sense the user interface should not surprise the user? But here is a refreshing contrary opinion.
From Schneier on Security
Young Man in "Old Man" Mask Boards Plane in Hong Kong
It's kind of an amazing story. A young Asian man used a rubber mask to disguise himself as an old Caucasian man and, with a passport photo that matched his disguise...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Kinect
It took me a whole two days after launch to finally get it, but I now not only have a Kinect but my first Xbox console. After playing an evening with my husband...
From Schneier on Security