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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 2009-11-30
Why can't Google be more like Microsoft? Repeat after me: open source means more than just the license. We need a scorecard. (And before youFOSS...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Computers Saving Hospitals Money
A Harvard survey that says that IT rarely saves hospitals money. A shocker to me. I have been a close-up observer of how systems are used in hospitals. I guess...
From Computational Complexity
The 17x17 challenge. Worth $289.00. This is not a joke.
The 17x17 challenge: worth $289.00. I am not kidding. Definition: The n x m grid is c-colorable if there is a way to c-color the vertices of the n x m grid soThe...
From Apophenia
Sociality Is Learning
This post was originally written for the DML Central Blog. If you're interested in Digital Media and Learning, you definitely want to check this blog out. As adults...
From Putting People First
Social media
Social media could transform the UK National Health Service and other public services in the same way that file-sharing changed the music industry, a conference...
From Putting People First
Identifying emerging trends at Nokia
Nokia, the world’s biggest mobile phone maker, faces increasing competition from the likes of Apple and Google Android. Identifying emerging trends and building...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bayes Methods and Manufacturing
Regret won't be able to attend this, is of technical interest:Directed Bayes with High-Level Data Applied in Manufacturing by Theodore T. Allen, Ph.D. Associate...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cloud Computing, Long Ago
When I first heard about cloud computing a few years ago I thought it sounded familiar. Central computing utilities. Well it is, as far back as 1965. Just didn't...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-11-29
No fiber please Seems the slow roll-out of fibre in the UK caused in no small part by an incredibly badly structured tax imposed...
From The Noisy Channel
Fun with Google, Bing, and Yahoo
Web search is a fiercely competitive space–as Google points out, “competition is just one click away“. In practice, I take that claim with a grain of salt–but I...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft and Business Intelligence
Good overview of what MSFT is up to in the business intelligence area for large companies, the whole article contains useful details: ' .. Microsoft has unveiled...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Down and Dirty Programming
I read John Harrison's recent blog asking the question whether students are good problem solvers or mimics and it made me consider my latest school experiment. ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AT&T vs Verizon Visualization
It particularly attracted me because it dealt with maps and visualization of data. You have seen the ads if you watch any TV or use the Internet. Dueling mobile...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neuromarketing in Neuromarketer
In Chiefmarketer, on neuromarketing. What the Human Brain Means to Your Campaign.-
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-11-28
EC reshuffle bumps Kroes out of antitrust seat It's more than a "reshuffle" - Baroso has built an entirely new structure for the...
From Wild WebMink
? Thanks For The Music
So you got through (or, if your not from the US, ignored) Thanksgiving and Black Friday, how about some free music? It's on my personal blog...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Black Friday Crashes
Evan Schuman reports on a number of e-commerce crashes in StoreFrontBackTalk. Not unexpected as we move online.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kitchen Computer 1969
I recently posted about a 'home system' being advertised by Verizon. Part of our innovation center research was to understand how specialized systems in a home...
From The Eponymous Pickle