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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
Tacit Knowledge
During a period when many enterprises were thinking about how to build expert systems that might augment human beings, we learned about the concept of tacit knowledge...
From Computational Complexity
Advice for an Engineer
A reader from Mexico asks I am a near-to-be graduate student from Computational Engineering. However, it wasn't what I expected from my career. I want to be a mathematician...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-06-02
Patent cloud looms over Google Web video plan "The VP8 patent situation is no different from the patent challenges that face any computing innovation, from search...
From Schneier on Security
Intelligence Can Never Be Perfect
Go read this article -- "Setting impossible standards on intelligence" -- on laying blame for the intelligence "failure" that allowed the Underwear Bomber to board...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
A Rose is a Rose
Let me think out loud hear a little and get some opinions. On what? On how far to go when naming things in programs. let me start at the beginning. The other day...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Online Video Storytelling Study
Participate in the SNCR Study on online video storytelling. ' ... The research study will focus on how organizations are using video to enhance their storytelling...
From My Biased Coin
Bertinoro, Day 2
Bertinoro is a really beautiful city. I just felt like saying that.Today's talks: Geppino Pucci talked about Bluetooth networks, modeled as a variation of random...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Emerging Market Business Models
Colleague Sammy Haroon does a good job writing about new business models for innovation in emerging markets. Making good use of a recent Economist report on the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bringing Augmented Reality to E-Commerce
From a press release by Metaio. The concept is something I have been look at in a number of forms for years. Combining physical spaces with realities that can then...
From Schneier on Security
Voluntary Security Inspections
What could possibly be the point of this? Cars heading to Austin-Bergstrom International Airport will see random, voluntary inspections Monday. The searches are...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter on Innovation
An interview with P&G's Melanie Healey on Invading 'Whitespace' via Innovation, in Brandweek. Nothing very new, but good view of their directions.
From Computational Complexity
Avner Magen (1968-2010)
Toronto Professor Avner Magen died in a climbing accident on Saturday. He's had a number of important results on a variety of algorithmic topics.Avner was one of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Upside of Irrationality
Dan Ariely's new book, The Upside of Irrationality is out. See more at his blog. On the list here.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Remembering Lee De Forest
A number of posts about the invention of the amplifier by Lee De Forest in 1906. A crucial step in the broad application of electronics. As the Gizmodo article...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Computer Science is Shallow
Zed A. Shaw—author of several books on Ruby and Python—came up with an interesting criticism of Computer Science. He makes some good points: Computer Science is...
From The Noisy Channel