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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 Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: "Truck Carrying Squid Crashes In Broccoli Field"
You can't make up a headline like that.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hair Washing Robot
Panasonic announces a robot that washes your hair. Designed primarily for health institutional and caregiving scenarios.
From The Eponymous Pickle
ARF Neuromarketing Standards Study
This makes great sense, it is overdue that this is looked at closely to try to produce useful standards. Sands Research pointed this out to me. Eight firms to...
From Schneier on Security
Real-Time NSA Eavesdropping
In an article about Robert Woodward's new book, Obama's Wars, this is listed as one of the book's "disclosures": A new capability developed by the National Security...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
The
Five years ago, the National Academies published a landmark study calling for U.S. investment in science, technology, and education, warning the nation could no...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Talent Analytics
This piece relates to several posts I have done recently on retiree knowledge retention and linking specific corporate needs to expertise based on assignment approach...
From Schneier on Security
Analysis of Image File Metadata
As a photographer, I've wondered about this.
From Putting People First
Videos of Stanford
Below are the 2010 videos of the Human-Computer Interaction Seminar at Stanford University. Check also the full playlist. Redesigning the programming experience...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Companion Future of Smartphones
Intel talks about the future of smartphones as assistants, and interestingly companions. It is to be expected as phones become more context aware, include more...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
The Future of Computer Architecture Research
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From Computer Science Teachers Association
Things are Happening in Massachusetts
Things are happening in Massachusetts on the Computer Science education front. First, Dot Diva, a program sponsored by WGBH and ACM to promote the field of Computer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Kind of Science on the iPad
Stephen Wolfram blogs about the appearance of his mega book: A New Kind of Science on the IPad, with enhanced graphics. I bought this book when it first came out...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Super Wifi Space Approved
Engadget on Super Wifi. Followed Wimax for years and its potential application for retail. Is this the same thing? No it is not, but it is very likely to compete...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gillette, Razor and Blade Strategy
In the HBR blog, more history and discussion of the renowned Gillette razor and blade strategy. " ... What should we take away from this? Did Gillette just miss...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reality Has a Gaming Layer
In O'Reilly Radar, a good interview piece on integrating reality and games. I know about attempts like FourSquare that make weak attempts to do this. In the world...
From Schneier on Security
Evercookies
Extremely persistent browser cookies: evercookie is a javascript API available that produces extremely persistent cookies in a browser. Its goal is to identify...
From Computational Complexity
Theorems that are less interesting because they are more interesting
(This post was inspired by Joe Kruskal's passing. Kruskal's tree theorem, trees under minor are a well quasi order, relates to example 2 below.) There are some...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pay with Your Smartphone
An Engadget report. We saw experimental examples done in this space over two years ago, it is surprising that we are still not seeing the right hardware in smartphones...
From Schneier on Security