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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
IPhone Style Kiosk: Utiqueshop
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of seeing a demonstration of an impressive and engaging wall-mounted kiosk from a company called Utiqueshop. Spoke to theira...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Buiness Intelligence Market Study
From Information Builders: Howard Dresner's extensive Wisdom of Crowds Business Intelligence Market Study.
From Computational Complexity
CRA Snowbird Part II
Considerable discussion about funding at CRA Snowbird. Ken Gabriel, Deputy Director of DARPA, talked about how DARPA is restructuring its programs to become more...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-07-23
WS-I Transitions To OASIS In the debate about open standards at the Cloud Summit on Tuesday, one speaker argued powerfully that standards follow innovation rather...
From My Biased Coin
"I Understood Your Talk"
Often, after I give a talk, the feedback I hear back is "I understood your whole talk," or something near that. I take it as a compliment (although I don't think...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching to the Test
OK let me be clear upfront that I am not a big fan of the current Advanced Placement Computer Science exam. And it
From The Noisy Channel
SIGIR 2010: Day 2 Technical Sessions
On the second day of the SIGIR 2010 conference, I did start shuttling between sessions to attend particular talks. In the morning session, I attended three talks...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Relationship Economy Expedition
Jerry Michalski talks about public and private side of the REXpedition: The relationship economy expedition. See the video. And at the REXpedition site.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bubble Generation
By economist Umair Haque:The Bubble Generation "?EVOLUTIO?ARY ORGANIZATIONS CHANGE the WORLD. HERE'S HOW to BECOME ONE. create thick value. spark smart growth....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Getting the Best
The Seriosity blog on getting the best out of your employees. More in this blog about Seriosity's work on games and engaging customers and employees. Including...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Five Billion Connections
In the BBC: there are now over 5 billion phone connections worldwide. Staggering thought. The globe is a heavily interconnected network.
From Computational Complexity
CRA Snowbird Part I
I just returned home from my first trip to the CRA Snowbird Conference, the biennial meeting of CS chairs and other leaders in the CS community. I really enjoyed...
From The Noisy Channel
SIGIR 2010: Day 2 Keynote
The second day of the SIGIR 2010 conference kicked off with a keynote by TREC pioneer Donna Harman entitled “Is the Cranfield Paradigm Outdated?”. If you are at...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-07-22
ForgeRock Releases OpenAM 9.5 Software Quite a milestone – this is our first independent release, sourced entirely from community members. It's good stuff too –...
From Schneier on Security
More Research on the Effectiveness of Terrorist Profiling
Interesting: The use of profiling by ethnicity or nationality to trigger secondary security screening is a controversial social and political issue. Overlooked...
From Wild WebMink
? First Post!
Today is a significant milestone for the new venture I’m helping, ForgeRock. We’ve announced availability of our first full independent release of OpenAM, the open...
From Putting People First
Questions for Microsoft Research
Indrani Medhi, associate researcher in the Technology For Emerging Markets Group at Microsoft Research India, was recently rated one of the
From The Eponymous Pickle
Packaged Goods Company Develops Game
In Mediapost. I like the approach, will follow to see how it develops. ' ... Reckitt Benckiser has created a branded social-media game called poweRBrands, in which...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
DARPA a year later
Dr. Ken Gabriel, the deputy director of DARPA, delivered a plenary address at CRA
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson