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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
Ant Warfare
Interesting: According to Moffett, we might actually learn a thing or two from how ants wage war. For one, ant armies operate with precise organization despite...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-08-09
Copyright assignment – Once bitten, twice shy Excellent and thorough article about copyright assignment. If you are involved in the current, Canonical-sponsored...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 9 August 2010
What a week. My son was married a week ago. I picked him and his bride up from their honeymoon last night. In between I took a trip to Texas for a Microsoft conference...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Teaching Style Does Matter
I recently read a really interesting article on interactive teaching in computer science by . The article, appearing in ACM Inroads (Vol. 1. No. 2) was interesting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Can you Bulletize that?
This is fairly old, but I was reminded of it by a colleague: Some Problems in the world are not Bullet-izable. And Tufte's classic comments on the subject.
From My Biased Coin
Papers to Teach This Year
This fall I'm again teaching my "introductory" graduate class loosely centered on the themes of big data and communications/networks, Algorithms at the End of the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
RFID Reads from a Distance
Storefrontbacktalk reports about a passive RFID tag read from a distance of 217 feet, presented at the recent DEFCON conference. The comments debate if it was...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Micro Drones at Google
Google ordering micro drones. For filling in the details on streetview? Don't swat that fly, could be Google getting data.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Furniture Mass Customization
I have just been looking at at some examples of mass customization. Most appear to be in the clothing area. Here is another, a startup in the mass customization...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Talking Washers and Dryers
In BWeek, More on work by Kenmore having appliances report their maintenance issues remotely. We experimented with a number of these appliances in the innovation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter and Safe Drinking Water
Have followed P&G's safe drinking water for children effort in this blog for some time. Now they are rolling out a new effort featuring female bloggers.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovation is not Creativity
In the HBR Blog: by Vijay Govindarajan ' ... We like to think of an organization's capacity for innovation as creativity multiplied by execution. We use "multiplication"...
From My Biased Coin
Back from Travels
The slowdown in posting for the past month has been primarily due to travel. For the last month, I've been in England, based primarily at the Computer Science. ...
From The Noisy Channel
Taking Blekko out for a Spin
If you’re a search engine junkie like me, you’ve probably heard about Blekko, a search engine that has been percolating for over two years and recently launched...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Are Marketers Spying on You Online?
A very good little AdAge article that discusses what marketers know and what they don't know about you online. I also recommend reading the comments to the article...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Canadian Squid Stamp
It's a giant fiberglass squid from Newfoundland.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Vinimaya Virtual Supplier Network
I have now had a couple of in-depth conversations with the local company Vinimaya. Very impressive and particularly simple and cost effective solutions to company...
From Schneier on Security
Yet Another Way to Sneak Liquids onto an Airplane
Coffee cup disguised as a camera lens.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tesco Mobile Shopping App
In the UK MarketingWeek. Tesco is always innovative. In particular interesting is their motivation for bypassing some more popular smartphone platforms:"Tesco...
From The Eponymous Pickle