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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
Old Spice and Social Engagement
Insider Dave Knox on taking social engagement to a new level at Procter & Gamble's Old Spice brand. Via Walter Riker.
From Computational Complexity
GCT Workshop (Guest Post by Josh Grochow)
Last week, the Center for Computational Intractability hosted a Geometric Complexity Theory Workshop. Geometric complexity theory (GCT) is an approach to P vs...
From Wild WebMink
Open Core Case Study
SugarCRM 6 Debuts with Open Source and Commercial Features While their marketing guy may claim “that overall, Sugar 6 is an open source product from an open source...
From Schneier on Security
Caller ID Spoofing on the Android
It's easy to access someone else's voicemail by spoofing the caller ID. This isn't new; what is new is that many people now have easy access to caller ID spoofing...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Advice For An Imagine Cup Team
The following is a guest post by Pat Yongpradit. Pat is the computer science teacher at Springbrook High School in Silver Spring, Maryland. His students competed...
From Putting People First
Ethnography in industry
PARC, the legendary California-based research centre owned by the Xerox Corporation, is hosting a series of talks on ethnography in industry. The three talks that...
From Putting People First
People-focused innovation in healthcare
Philips Design has published a downloadable paper on how it uses qualitative research and design thinking to support development of solutions for the ever-changing...
From The Noisy Channel
The War on Attention Poverty: Measuring Twitter Authority
I gave this presentation today at AT&T Labs, hosted by Stephen North of Graphviz fame.
From Schneier on Security
Hemingway Authentication Scheme
From 1955, intended as humor: In the future when I should ever call on the telephone to make a request or issue an order I will identify myself as follows: This...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Math Book
The Math Book: From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension, 250 Milestones in the History of Mathematics by Clifford A. Pickover. Just found this recently published...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Field Agent Crowd Sources Retail Discovery
I was recently pointed to the Field Agent IPhone App. It implemented an idea which was discussed a number of times in the enterprise before the emergence of Apps...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dominos Credits Social Media
Dominos is crediting social media for increases in profits. Good case study. Via Paul Gillin. See also his blog.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
General Versus Domain Intelligence
Our brains come with hard-wired algorithms. Cats can catch birds or mice without thinking about it. I can grab and eat a strawberry without thinking. The Savanna...
From Schneier on Security
The Chaocipher
The Chaocipher is a mechanical encryption algorithm invented in 1918. No one was able to reverse-engineer the algorithm, given sets of plaintexts and ciphertexts...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Microsoft Research Illuminates Mars in 3-D With WorldWide Telescope
Cool stuff for us space nuts. It
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crisis of Choice Online
Intriguing project and link to video.In CACM: Solving the Crisis of Choice OnlineThe MyMedia Project Content is everywhere these days, forcing consumers to make...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Delivering Exceptional Customer Experience
This eCommerce Times article reminded me how difficult this is to do. And how it has become necessary for companies, large and small to manage a number of channels...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Insurance Companies Build Games
Insurance companies build games to engage consumers and educate them. In a startup I worked for we examined simple games to bring people in, you had to win in a...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
ACM Washington Update, Vol. 14.4 (July 9, 2010)
CONTENTS [1] Newsletter Highlights [2] USACM and ACM's Education Policy Committee Offer Support for COMPETES [3] USACM Releases Issue Brief on Internet Voting ...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science