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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
Detecting Browser History
Interesting research. Main results: [...] We analyzed the results from over a quarter of a million people who ran our tests in the last few months, and found...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter Online Store Open to Public
After months of testing P&G's online store is now open to the public. ' ... Procter & Gamble Co. said Wednesday the "eStore" is up and running for the generalYou...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Diving with Mathematica
Short article from the Wolfram blog about doing data analysis and visualization using Mathematica. The wealth of capabilities in Mathematica are considerable,...
From Computational Complexity
Teaching for the first time: SUBRUK's story
(Guest Post by Subrahmanyam Kalyanasundaram) My First-time Teaching Experience. Background: This spring semester, here at Georgia Tech, I got the opportunity...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-05-20
jclouds I heard about this project at the Open Cloud Meetup in San Francisco last week. It is an abstraction layer for cloud computing, allowing you to write apps...
From Schneier on Security
Militarized Marine Mammals
Dolphine and sea lions: A Navy seal - actually a sea lion - took less than a minute to find a fake mine under a pier near San Francisco's AT&T Park. A dolphin...
From The Noisy Channel
Elastic Lists for Faceted Search
If you like faceted search and are interested in design patterns for it, I encourage you to check out Moritz Stefaner’s work on elastic lists. Here is his description...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Virtual Mirror
In StoreFrontBackTalk: Evan Schuman on Wal-Mart's virtual makeover effort. We experimented with this concept in-store and in-home for a dozen years, in a number...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Prediction APIs
Google has announced the availability of Machine Prediction APIs. Google is well known for AI based applications. This link to their machine learning capabilities...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Next Generation Cave
I have seen a number of uses of the CAVE environment, at universities, retail and manufacturing laboratories. And although each has been a very impressive attempt...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Upcoming Talk on Mashed-up Visualization
On mash-ups for visualization, plan to attendL The Last Mile: Data Visualization in a Mashed-Up World (May 20, at 3PM ET, then archived) Requires minimal registration...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Comment from Google on Wifi Privacy
Comments from Google on the recent Wifi privacy problems in Europe. Troubling that they seem to be less than completely serious on this topic. Just because no one...
From Computational Complexity
What should be in an automata course: Two views based on recent experience
(Joint Post with Subrahmanyam Kalyanasundaram) In this post, I speculated on what I might put into my automata theory course. That prompted Subrahmanyam Kalyanasundaram...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-05-19
Web Browsers Leave 'Fingerprints' Behind as You Surf the Net You may do your best to remain anonymous on the web, you may have cookies blocked, but this research...
From Wild WebMink
? Not Just For Radicals
Software freedom may sound like a line from a revolutionary manifesto, but it’s the key genetic market for value in the enterprise. read more on my ComputerWorldUK...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Security of Cars as App Platforms
There has been software in cars for a long time, but now that Ford has opened an App store they start looking like a platform for software, networked into the grid...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Location Apps and Capabilities Competing
AdAge review of location Apps and new competitive capabilities in Facebook. I am not sure I want to have another capability rolled into FB. At least in systems"...
From Wild WebMink
? Home, Pele
By way of explanation for my preoccupation and paucity of publication of late, I finally made it back home today after my trip to the US with ForgeRock. We had...
From The Eponymous Pickle
KYield Diabetes Use Case Scenario
Mark Montgomery of KYield writes: " .. I am pleased to share with you our health care use case, which is an important cornerstone of our series 'Semantic Scenarios...
From The Eponymous Pickle