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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
On Enterprise Business Intelligence
Doug Lautzenheiser, a leading subject matter expert in the use of Business Intelligence software within corporate organizations, takes a look at Forrester's reporting...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Policy Highlights from Communications of the ACM - October 2010 (Vol. 53, No. 10)
Below is a list of items with policy relevance from the October issue of Communications of the ACM. As always, much of the material in CACM is premium content,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blekko: A Slashtag Search Engine
Every now and then there is an attempt at a new take on the search engine. Zakta is an example I took a look at that attempts to build specialized research experiences...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Much Math Does the Average Person Need?
InSlashdot, a provocative piece on the real need for advanced math education for the average person. My training is in industrial applications of mathematics,...
From Schneier on Security
Halloween and the Irational Fear of Stranger Danger
From the Wall Street Journal: Take "stranger danger," the classic Halloween horror. Even when I was a kid, back in the "Bewitched" and "Brady Bunch" costume era...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Zombies at Sears
Zombie Marketing at Sears. How delightful. What, no vampires? Catches you attention today, I guess.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Drive Through Supermarket
The drive through supermarket is a concept I have studied for some time. Here Tesco tests the concept. Baldock is in the county of Hertfordshire which is just...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-10-31
U.S. Says Genes Should Not Be Eligible for Patenting Welcome and surprising intervention by the US government saying that natural things like genes should not be...
From The Eponymous Pickle
BJ Fogg and Persuasive Technologies
In my last post I mentioned BJ Fogg. We learned of his work while using the Institute for the Future over a number of years. He is a Stanford researcher and consultant...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gamification of HealthCare
Design Mind on the Gamification of Healthcare. Includes mention of BJ Fogg, who we utilized for projects in the enterprise that dealt with incentive several times...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Winn Dixie's Happy Meals for Adults
An interesting idea. The llink and full article contains lots of example images. Also seems quite complicated, and I think adult consumers might quickly be oversaturated...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Food Continues to get more Affordable
A look at the continued and growing affordability of food. Despite criticisms, the agriculture system is remarkable. Also the effects of international trade.
From Schneier on Security
Cargo Security
The New York Times writes: "Despite the increased scrutiny of people and luggage on passenger planes since 9/11, there are far fewer safeguards for packages and...
From Wild WebMink
? Leveraging Community
Microsoft: Our strategy with Silverlight has shifted Very smart move (also covered at GigaOm) – Microsoft are trying to lead the race to the bottom with HTML 5,...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Dissecting a Giant Squid
Interesting television program from UK Channel 4.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Strategic Process Improvement
Brad Power on the importance of improving strategic process in the HBR. I am further a believer in using simulation methods to understand these processes in great...
From Schneier on Security
Me at TED
Okay, it's not TED. It's one of the independent regional TED events: TEDxPSU. My talk was "Reconceptualizing Security," a condensation of the hour-long talk into...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Different Perspectives on Projection
I've been studying for my upcoming PhD comprehensive exams, and my major topic is computer graphics. Even though I haven't actually had the opportunity to take...
From Computational Complexity
Advice on getting connecting to the community (guest post by Daniel Apon)
(Guest Post by Daniel Apon.) As a follow up to the last post on Do Conferences Build Community? I offer some advice for people to get connected to the community...
From The Eponymous Pickle