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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
Stephen Few on Bullet Graphs
Stephen Few at the recent Tableau users conference talks about bullet graphs. I have been a user of Tableau systems for years, in and outside of the enterprise....
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-09-05
Ultra All Stars: The 2010 Sampler for Amazon This free sampler album (only downloadable by people with US Amazon.Com accounts) has some great electronic/dance tracks...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Untangling and Riding Social Web Structure
A good Economist article on the usefulness of social webs as a source of data about social connection structure. Interesting mentions of SAS social network analysis...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Great Mancession
Economist Mark J Perry makes the case that there is a great mancession going on. The WSJ interactive graphs show it. Yet we dare not mention it out loud.
From The Eponymous Pickle
World Without E-Mail
One man's vision, a world without e-mail. Replacing 90% of your email with social software. Would that work for the typical person online?
From The Eponymous Pickle
Household Robotics in Japan
An area we looked at closely. Aiming to include in home-of-the-future applications. An aging population may need many help-mate robots in the future. Japan is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Creating Knowledge from Incident Reports
Creating knowledge from events. It is like fitting a line through a number of points. Very valuable, but needs to be carefully done. We experimented with after-action...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
What Does a Computer Scientist Look Like?
Career and Technical Education exposed me to the field of computing. I joined two organizations in high school that changed my life. My participation in FBLA...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future Internet Architecture
From the CACM: On the future architecture of the Internet. Should it evolve or should we wipe the slate clean?
From The Eponymous Pickle
Flying Drones into a Hurricane
We are gaining an increasing knowledge of 3D Space. The obvious examples are military, but I am glad to see that drones are starting to be applied in the air to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
NCR Deli Ordering Systems at Big Y
We experimented with kiosk based deli ordering systems in our store innovation spaces. It's an obvious application rather than having people stand in line. IBMHere...
From Putting People First
The future of screen technology
TAT, a Swedish software technology and mobile interface design company, recently ran a two-week open innovation experiment, during which they collaborate with the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Postage Stamp
In the UK the Royal Mail has launched the first 'smart stamp'. More at the BBC. It utilizes the Junaio system on a smartphone (which is required to see the effect)...
From Computational Complexity
CS Happenings
Yesterday I was at a meeting of the CCC Council, add in a couple of emails and I have lots of short notes on CS stuff. In these meetings I get to hear about CS...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-09-03
Does the Fate of OpenSolaris Tell Us Where Unix Is Headed? No, I don't think so. But it does liberate Illumos. I coined a new law yesterday – "For every epic fail...
From Wild WebMink
? Gosling Webcast
Next week JavaZone, the conference that brought you Lady Java and Java Forever will be held in Norway. To celebrate the opening of the new ForgeRock Norway office...
From Schneier on Security
UAE Man-in-the-Middle Attack Against SSL
Interesting: Who are these certificate authorities? At the beginning of Web history, there were only a handful of companies, like Verisign, Equifax, and Thawte...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Students And Intellectual Property Rights
Earlier this week a friend sent me a couple of links to articles on intellectual property and students. One was about piracy (Future Tense: Piracy Revisited) and...
From Wild WebMink