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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
Value and Caution of Evolving Robots
Several commenters have reported this also mentions the finding that evolving robots also learn to prey and ask 'What could go wrong'?' ... Dario Floreano and Laurent...
From The Noisy Channel
LinkedIn Search: A Look Beneath the Hood
Last week, I had the good fortune to attend a presentation by John Wang, search architect at LinkedIn. You may have read my earlier posts about LinkedIn introducing...
From My Biased Coin
Justifying Growth : We Need Better PR...
Background: As part of the "getting a new Dean" process, we're undergoing a "make a 5 year plan" process. The School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS)...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Improving Disaster Management
In Communications of the ACM: 'Improving Disaster Management: Social networking, sophisticated imaging, and dual-use technologies promise improved disaster management...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Do You Have What it Takes?
When I was teaching high school, I was the stereotypical teacher who liked to decorate my classroom and have 'inspirational' posters and pretty decorations around...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Music Conference
From: www.theconfluencegroup.comThe Original New music Seminar Hits LA on February 2. Keynote speaker Daniel EK, CEO of Spotify .... January 14th, 2009, NY, NY...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Nature of Startups
Steve Blank on A Startup is not a smaller version of a big company. Now having been involved with several of each, so true. Size and complexity do not scale...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Getting serious about online teaching
Earlier this month, Michael Mitzenmacher told us about the record number of students attending his Harvard class online-only.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Better Decisions Through Analytics
Tom Davenport podcast on better decisions through analytics, in the HBR Blog.
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Harrowgate's 1886 Giant Squid
I have no idea how to explain this.
From My Biased Coin
Paper updates
We updated our Swoopo paper, Information Asymmetries in Pay-Per-Bid Auctions: How Swoopo Makes Bank, mostly making small writing improvements and typo fixes that...
From Putting People First
Nokia
User experience is one of the most important success factors of a mobile application, according to Nokia. Therefore the company created a web section that describes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shifting Back to National Brands
In the WSJ: ' ... Shoppers are starting to open their wallets again for brand-name household basics, but it's taking lower prices, heavy advertising and new products...
From The Eponymous Pickle
FourSquare in Retail
Drew McLellan on Foursquare in the Marketing Prof Daily Fix. In particular he talks about its use as a location-based loyalty play. I was in NYC earlier this week...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Policy Highlights from Communications of the ACM - January 2010 (Vol. 53, No. 1)
Below is a list of items with policy relevance from the January issue of Communications of the ACM. As always, much of the material in CACM is premium content,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Las Vegas Facility Used for Consumer Research
Using these contextual spaces in focus-group style forums is an old idea. What is most interesting is that number of non-conscious, biometric capabilities are now...
From Schneier on Security