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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
links for 2010-06-06
MPEG LA – The Standard for Standards – Want to Form a Pool? To be clear, MPEG-LA is a parasite using standards bodies as its host, whether they want it or not....
From Apophenia
i can haz housesitting tool pls?
Dear enterprising developers of the world, I have a request: I travel a lot. I prefer staying in apartments to staying in hotels. But I hate imposing on friends...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sony Lifelogging Glasses
Via Walter Riker: Sony demonstrates lifelogging glasses. Have been looking at eyetracking approaches lately. In the Enterprise we examined related methods for delivering...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Semantic Publishing
From IEEE Inteligent Systems: The Semantic Web: From Proteins to Fairytales: Directions in Semantic PublishingAnita de WaardIf computers are to help us process...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Focus on the Objectives of Business Intelligence
Richard Herschel looks at the various definitions of BI and tries to make sense of how it relates to the objectives we should be seeking. Well done. He proposes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Links as a Distraction
A discussion of whether including links in writing is a good idea. Have always thought the very purpose of being on the web is to include links to supporting material...
From My Biased Coin
SIGCOMM Travel Grants
I was asked by the SIGCOMM program chairs to remind everyone that there are travel grants available, especially for students, postdocs, and junior faculty. Since...
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