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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
World Statistics Day
The Wolfram Blog posts on World Statistics Day. We use statistically analyzed data every day, but do not often think about the origin of the data, the analysis...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neuromarketing Labels
The BrandShow podcast gives a short and simple overview of the use of neuromarketing for non conscious analysis of a brand. Using Campbell Soup as an example.
From Apophenia
Combating Sexual Exploitation Online
Today, I testified in front of Martha Coakley and other members of the Massachusetts Attorney General Office as part of their Hearing on Sexual Solicitation Online...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stock Exchange for Apps
It is true that it has become harder to find useful Apps. Too many, too obscure, or broad. There are the usual blogs and sites that describe new Apps, but I have...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tibco Silver Spotfire
I am just now getting to look at Tibco Silver Spotfire business intelligence and visualization package. It is now available as a one year free trial. A clever...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Scratch Resistant Polymers
This note from Ideaconnection reminds me of some research work I did in this area long ago. As we carry around more things that need to be handled often and...
From Schneier on Security
Hiding in Plain Sight
Ha! When he's out and about near his Denver home, former Broncos quarterback John Elway has come up with a novel way to travel incognito
From The Eponymous Pickle
Willpower not a Limited Resource
In Lifehacker a short piece on a recent Stanford study. That " ... the endurance you get from willpower is at least in part determined by your beliefs ... ". Obvious...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-10-19
Sender ID Finds Followers Ahead of Approval If anyone has forgotten why RAND and RAND-Z terms are a defect awaiting exploitation to undermine software freedoms,...
From Computational Complexity
My Trip to Denmark
Last week I had a pleasant short trip to Aarhus, Denmark for the inauguration of the new Center for Research in the Foundations of Electronic Markets. Kevin Leyton...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Introducing the Microsoft US Academic Bloggers
I'm part of a group of people at Microsoft who work with academics all across the country. A number of them have active blogs and I thought this might be a good...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Benoit Mandelbrot, Dead at 85
In the ACM: Mandelbrot was a major inspiration for me in the 1980s. Met in a conference at IBM at about that time. In particular his work with financial analysis...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Scientific Feuds
Mind Hacks mentions an HG Wells piece on scientific feuds. Was was pointed out to me years ago. A good reminder about how researchers are people, and science...
From The Eponymous Pickle
WiFi in Flight
I briefly encountered the ability to get WiFi wireless on a flight today. I said no. This CW article outlines the fact that though this convenience is getting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Heart Rate Sensor for IPhone
Have been exploring a number of sensor options and developments for Smartphones. Here is a relatively new one which does heart rate tracking. Sent to me by Mapmyfitness...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Google Announces Google Code-In
I'd like to introduce myself - my name is Carol Smith and I'm the Google Summer of Code program administrator. I recently helped announce the launch of a new program...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Goggles: Image Recognition on Mobile
Have been involved in a number of image recognition projects, and the general problem is still hard. Google Goggles is now available on the Iphone as part of the...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Ontario Celebration of Women in Computing
Just in case I wasn't attending enough Women in Computing events (see posts on this year's Grace Hopper), I registered for the Ontario Celebration of Women in Computing...
From Computational Complexity
Beno
Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.
From Wild WebMink