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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 U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Policy Highlights from Communications of the ACM - July 2010 (Vol. 53, No. 7)
Below is a list of items with policy relevance from the July issue of Communications of the ACM. As always, much of the material in CACM is premium content, and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Optimizing Floor Space
It's an idea that continues to be pushed further. Optimize the store space by using kiosks and other densely compacted selling ideas within the store. Here is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Becoming Disconnected
David Carr, who has been talking much about the negative effects of online, gives some examples of people that have deliberately cut themselves from the net. They...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Photographer's Legal Rights
Now having a quality camera in my cell phone I find myself taking many more images for both personal and professional reasons. I can also then get them to thea...
From The Eponymous Pickle
BI on a Limited Budget
A new TDWI report: BI on a Limited BudgetBI on a Limited Budget: Strategies for Doing More with LessThe current economic downturn has accentuated the need among...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IPads in Business
Some good examples in CW of IPads being used in business.
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Launcher from "Despicable Me"
Don't squid me, bro.
From The Eponymous Pickle
About Emotionally Effective Advertising
Just received and of interest: About Face: The Secrets of Emotionally Effective Advertising by Dan Hill D.V. Reading parts of it now, more to follow. I also see...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
What Your Identity Has to Do With Learning
What happens if one of your identities conflicts with what you're trying to learn in school? For instance, what if you are a creationist Christian learning science...
From Schneier on Security
Doomsday Shelters
Selling fear: The Vivos network, which offers partial ownerships similar to a timeshare in underground shelter communities, is one of several ventures touting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unilever Tracks Omo Boxes
Report in Adage that Unilver will be tracking a small sample of boxes of Omo detergent in Brazil using a GPS device. The Adage headline about 'stalking' is inflammatory...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shopkick
Another good example of bridging retail and mobile underway:Shopkick bridges the mobile and retail worlds.We are funded by Kleiner Perkins's "iFund" and are the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile Choices
Another example of the use of Mobile to engage in-store, note in particular the use of barcode scanning, which is becoming more common. I recently saw severalShopkick...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
White House OSTP blog cites CCC again
In a recent blog post “Reflections on the NNI
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smartphone and Accessories Blog
A correspondent has set up a blog on new Smartphone developments and accessories.
From Schneier on Security
Hacking ATMs
Hacking ATMs to spit out money, demonstrated at the Black Hat conference: The two systems he hacked on stage were made by Triton and Tranax. The Tranax hack was...
From Wild WebMink
? Competitive Behaviour
Apple Ships More Mobile Phones Than Motorola For The Second Quarter In A Row More a statement of Motorola’s decline that Apple’s advance, but still a significant...
From Putting People First
Genevieve Bell
In 2009, Dr. Genevieve Bell, an Australian-born anthropologist and ethnographer, who is an Intel Fellow and heads Intel’s newly created Interaction and Experience...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM