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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 Wild WebMink
? Google Fixes WebM
I’m delighted to say that Google has fixed the licence for WebM so that they don;’t need to submit it to OSI any more – they are now just using a BSD licence with...
From Schneier on Security
The Four Stages of Fear
Interesting: In the throes of intense fear, we suddenly find ourselves operating in a different and unexpected way. The psychological tools that we normally use...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tour Through a Visualization Zoo
From CACM: A Tour Through the Visualization Zoo, A survey of powerful visualization techniques, from the obvious to the obscure... The goal of visualization is.I...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Zakta Search
Once more I would like to suggest that you take a look at Zakta. Constructed by some very smart developers I know. Its been updated now a number of times. An...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Medical Augmented Reality
Some great examples of medical augmented reality in ReadWriteWeb. Via obdervant colleague Stan Dyck. It brings up the interesting idea of using AR to highlight...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Scent of a Steak
A short piece about a company emitting the scent of a steak from a billboard. At the Innovation Centers we experimented extensively with targeted in-store scent...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Personalizing Discounts at Sams
An obvious but still rare play in the world of loyalty. Is this the way that loyalty programs will evolve? " ... Wal-Mart warehouse chain Sam's Club has introduced...
From Computational Complexity
STOC and EC and Complexity, Oh My
Tomorrow I'm off to Cambridge, MA for the 42nd Symposium on the Theory of Computing (STOC), the 25th Conference on Computational Complexity (CCC) and the 11th Conference...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Maximizing Your Impact as a Researcher (guest post)
The greatest challenge for a researcher is to choose projects that have a good chance of delivering impact. Alain Désilets from NRC—co-author of VoiceGrip, Webitext...
From My Biased Coin
Will Google Buy ITA?
As long-time readers of the blog know, I am a fan of ITA software, the company with the fare-finding technology and search engine that powers Orbitz and several...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-06-04
EU plays catch-up with US digital economy There are some very worrying phrases in this legislative push, suggesting that the lobbying by big corporations to get...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart's Supply Chain
Good overview post on Wal-Mart's supply chain practices from Evan Schuman's StoreFrontBacktalk.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Face Recognition Methods
Some interesting new methodologies being debated by Google. Recognition of images is an area I have worked on for a number of years.
From My Biased Coin
What Work to Give Up?
I'm not yet sure how many hours a week being a Chair (oops, "Area Dean") will chew up, but I think it's safe to say it will be a non-trivial number. I'm generally...
From My Biased Coin