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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
Repast Simphony
A recent project made me re-examine Repast: An Agent Simulation toolkit. For what is called Agent Based Simulation (ABM) Repast Simphony is a free and open source...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bayesian Truth Serum, Pluralistic Ignorance
I can remember just this occuring in a project in the enterprise, on pluralistic ignorance. I guess this calls for more transparency? .. It begins: " ... In social...
From The Noisy Channel
Pluralistic Ignorance and Bayesian Truth Serum
Last week, I had the pleasure of talking with CMU professor George Loewenstein, one of the top researchers in the area of behavioral economics. I mentioned my idea...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deleted Posts are Discoverable
An article about using deleted posts in social networking sites for legal proceedings, an interesting caution:" ... Deleted Facebook and MySpace Posts Are Discoverable...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Cars Drive Themselves
This came out last week, Google cars driving themselves in traffic, with only occasional human intervention. Article in NYT Science. Now will you be able to...
From Putting People First
Ford
The New York Times reports on how car designers have recognised the challenge of keeping vehicles
From Putting People First
Ford
The New York Times reports on how car designers have recognised the challenge of keeping vehicles
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented Reality App Travels in Time
Have always thought that a good augemented reality application should include details, in text and visually, of the history of a location. How much data actually...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Standards in Neuromarketing
Duane Varan, who is leading the Advertising Research Foundation's initiative to develop standards, is interviewed on the form and need for standards in Neuromarketing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smartphones Recognizing their Owners by Their Walk
A nice basically simple idea, use the accelerometers in most Smartphones as a low involvement means to recognize their owners. As they start to become more like...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the IFuture of Money
CW post on the future of money, reporting on a conference in Geneva and a presentation being given on the evolution of Smartphones being used for payment. A favorite...
From Schneier on Security
The Ineffectiveness of Vague Security Warnings
From Slate: We do nothing, first and foremost, because there is nothing we can do. Unless the State Department gets specific
From The Eponymous Pickle
An Internet of Internal Organs
How about giving your heart and other organs their own IP address? In the CACM from New Scientist: Body Organs Can Send Status Updates to Your Cellphone.
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SaaS Sales Models
On varying sales models for software as a service ." ... One of the commonly accepted myths of the Software as a Service (SaaS) market and the broader cloud computing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neurophone
It is inevitable that we see closer people-machine interfaces, what will the implications be? More interruptions than we have today? In Nick Carr's Roughtype:"New...
From Schneier on Security
Hacking Trial Breaks D.C. Internet Voting System
Sounds like it was easy: Last week, the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics opened a new Internet-based voting system for a weeklong test period, inviting computer...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Small Basic Curriculum
Small Basic is, in my opinion, one of the really cool platforms for introducing programming to younger students. A simple IDE, a simple subset of BASIC, and built...
From The Eponymous Pickle