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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 Noisy Channel
Innovation at Huffington Post: Data-Driven Headlines
The other day, I was suggesting to one of my colleagues that Endeca’s software could help authors write better (translate, more SEO-friendly) headlines. The details...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Mining Group
The Data Mining Group, based on recent experiences, this is a very good idea: ' ... The Data Mining Group (DMG) is an independent, vendor led consortium thatPredictive...
From My Biased Coin
New Book on Concentration Bounds
I spent an hour or more today perusing the book Concentration of Measure for the Analysis of Randomized Algorithms, by Devdatt Dubhashi and Alessandro Panconesi...
From Computational Complexity
Bill and Lance's Excellent German Adventure
Lance: Because we don't have a good microphone, Bill and I decided to have our first typecast. Hi Bill. Bill: Hi Lance. We'll be typecast SUPERSTARS. ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Viewing Product Placement
The Times of London looks at Martin Lindstrom's view of how to do product placement right. American Idol used as an example for the application of neuroscience...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wristband Location Tags
I see that Ekahau, whose specialty has been WiFi based location methods, has come out with a wristband format tag that has meter and less accuracy. We looked at...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-10-14
The Carter-Ruck school of viral marketing The work done by legal firm Carter-Ruck on behalf of their client Trafigura will (hopefully)...
From The Noisy Channel
Go Shopping, Be Social
If you’re into search startups, then today’s a great day to check out what a couple of them are up to.
From Apophenia
Postdoctoral Researchers, Microsoft Research
If you're graduating with a PhD from a computer science program, applying to be a researcher or postdoc at Microsoft Research might seem obvious. But what I've...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bar Code Scanning for the iPhone
I finally took a look at the Redlaser barcode scanner from Occipital for the IPhone, released earlier this year. It is a $1.99 application that downloads quickly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bing Doing Well.
I used Bing a number of times in comparison to Google search, but then stopped. Word is it is doing better that expected. Will give it some more tries.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Flu Suit
Idea Connection sends along a link to word of a Flu-Fighting business suit. Treated, it says, to kill the H1N1 virus. I have considerable doubt.
From Schneier on Security
The Doghouse: Privacy Inside
I'm just going to quote without comment: About the file: the text message file encrypted with a symmetric key combine 3 modes 1st changing the original text...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Squared is Improved
I mentioned my look at Google's look at structured data some time ago. They have recently announced some improvements. Not much like WolframAlpha, but sort ofWolframAlpha...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
A View from the 2009 European Computer Science Summit
Your faithful correspondent recently participated in the European Computer Science Summit 2009, the annual meeting of Informatics Europe (Paris, 8-9 October...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Less is More: Private Label Implications?
Simplification strategies in retail.. " ... The Nielsen Co.
From Wild WebMink
? Harmonising Principle and Pragmatism
Can open source stop navel gazing and get real? While Matt's point has a certain populist charm, I don't agree with him that software...
From Schneier on Security