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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
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
Tracking Your Browser Without Cookies
How unique is your browser? Can you be tracked simply by its characteristics? The EFF is trying to find out. Their site Panopticlick will measure the characteristics...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook, Twitter and Procter
David Hornik posts in the Venture Blog. Sounds familiar, lots underway still, and there are special challenges for large complex, global organizatons. Scale also...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Desire and Perception
Intriquing proposition: Desire influences visual perceptionWe tend to assume that we see our surroundings as they really are, and that our perception of reality...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How do You Augment Reality?
Have also done some experimentation about how three dimensional visualizations can be overlaid on physical environments, with thoughts especially to retail contexts...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Language, Learning and Literacy in a Digital Age
Kids fail at school because they are learning in a language that's foreign to them.That's the first thing I wrote down at a talk given at Carleton last week by ...
From Computational Complexity
Referees'''' reports
A commenter a LOOOOONG time ago left the following: Tell me, Gasarch, how in the world do you get your papers published when you consistently skip the apostrophe...
From Apophenia
Upcoming Mary Gray talk on on "Out in the Country: Youth, Media & Queer Visibility in Rural America"
It used to be the case that all of the queer youth living in rural America ran away to the city to find others like them. The Internet has dramatically changed...
From Schneier on Security
World Privacy Day and the Madrid Privacy Declaration
Today is World Privacy Day. (I know; it's odd to me, too.) You can celebrate by signing on to the Madrid Privacy Declaration, either as an individual or as an...
From The Eponymous Pickle
ThinkVine Addresses CMO Priorities.
A few posts ago I mentioned ThinkVine's 'editors pick' award, they worked with us in the enterprise, here are more details from their press release:" ... ThinkVine...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Some Local Quant Seminars of Interest
Department of Quantitative Analysis and Operations Management, University of Cincinnati SEMINAR 1: Mathletics: The Math of WinningProf. Wayne Winston, Indiana University...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Too Disruptive Innovation?
In HBR Blogs, good illustrative post on this issue:Is This Innovation Too Disruptive for My Firm?One of the trickiest decisions in business is to assess: is this...
From The Eponymous Pickle
In the Days of the Robo Recession
In IEEE Intelligent Systems: Where's My Personal Robot? A good current view of personal robots, their uses and progress and the long way to go before there is...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Attracting a More Diverse Group of Students
In the fall of 2009 Georgia Tech started a high school weekend computing program. We asked for teacher recommendations for students with at least a B average that...
From Computational Complexity
Guest post on ICS 2010 (x of y for some x and y)
(Another Guest post about ICS 2010. From Aaron Sterling. Is he on his way to break the MOST GUEST POSTS IN A YEAR record? I doubt it- I think I hold it from before...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Newton and the Apple
The Royal Society has published a manuscript history of the 18tth century that relates the story of Newton and the inspirational-apple. Though most historians are...
From Schneier on Security
Scanning Cargo for Nuclear Material and Conventional Explosives
Still experimental: The team propose using a particle accelerator to alternately smash ionised hydrogen molecules and deuterium ions into targets of carbon and...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Can Movie Computer Screens Help Us Design Better
NPR did a story recently on the computer screens that we see in the movies. You know the ones with big read
From The Eponymous Pickle