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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
On Associative Memory
Good overview on associative memories. We tested these during our AI days and talked to a number of vendors. The hope was that they could include some of the'case...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Paid vs Free Content
An interview with Professors Peter Fader and Stepen Kobrin of Wharton on these and other recent topics in Knowledge@Wharton
From Putting People First
Live at Interaction
Niklas Wolkert & Brad Nunnally report on Johnnyy Holland on the first day of the Interaction10 conference in Savannah, Georgia. “If one thing had to describe the...
From The Noisy Channel
WSDM 2010: Day 2
Note: this post is cross-posted at BLOG@CACM. Unfortunately, I woke up this morning rather under the weather, so I’m having to resort to remotely reporting on the...
From My Biased Coin
Guest Post: Giorgos Zervas from WSDM, Part 2
Day two of WSDM was highlighted by two great presentations which I enjoyed for different reasons. I think the strong features of both could be incorporated in almost...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter Buys Doctor Network
In BizJournals: " ... Procter & Gamble has purchased the remaining shares of the doctors network that it acquired a minority stake in three years ago. The 350 doctors...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Connecting the Dots in your Business
Tom Davenport in HBR blogs: How to "Connect the Dots" in Your Business, one of a series of interesting posts that examine integrating data. " ... In this post,...
From Schneier on Security
Scaring the Senate Intelligence Committee
This is unconscionable: At Tuesday's hearing, Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California and chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, asked Mr. Blair...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Linkedin
Just substantially updated my Linkedin entry. For more about me and what I am up to. -
From My Biased Coin
Guest Post: Giorgos Zervas from WSDM
Since I couldn't get myself to New York for WSDM, I asked my student Giorgos Zervas to report. This is his report from Thursday.-----------------------Greetings...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What Are You Learning This Summer
No, really! Are you making your summer plans yet and do they include learning time? I have some ideas for you. First off is CS & IT run by CSTA. This is in my opinion...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-02-05
Lively Kernel Spun out to its own site, this project (a virtual machine kernel written in Javascript) is absolutely fascinating...
From Schneier on Security
World's Largest Data Collector Teams Up With Word's Largest Data Collector
Does anyone think this is a good idea? Under an agreement that is still being finalized, the National Security Agency would help Google analyze a major corporate...
From The Noisy Channel
WSDM 2010: Day 1
Note: this post is cross-posted at BLOG@CACM. Today was the first day of the Third ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2010), held...
From The Noisy Channel
WSDM 2010: Day 1
Note: this post is cross-posted at BLOG@CACM. Today was the first day of the Third ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2010), held...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Biometrics Examined
Very good IEEE Computer Now issue on the general problem of using biometric methods for identification. ' ... This month, Computing Now explores biometrics
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google to Add Store Views
Google is apparently going to add 'store views' to its valuable 'street views', attached by location to its maps. More here. I am assuming with permission, but...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog