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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 Return 42;
The Way Nature Designs, Or Doesn't
Often, I do not feel like agreeing with Linus Torvalds. This is not because he is not right, but because of the very opinionated, sometimes even stubborn way he...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Perception in the Brain's Clock
Fascinating piece in New Scientist about how the brain's clock changes our perception and view of reality. Mentioned is the classic 'wagon wheel illusion', ' .....
From Apophenia
Some thoughts on Twitter vs. Facebook Status Updates
The functional act of constructing a tweet or a status update is very similar. Produce text in roughly 140 characters or less inside a single line text box and...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-10-25
ZFS for MacOS X The power of open source is that, when one door closes, anyone can open another one. (tags: OpenSource...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blob Robot
IRobot, best known for its Roomba floor sweep ing robot, has developed a prototype robot for DARPA that can fit into tight spaces via its morphable form. Robotic...
From Wild WebMink
We Have An Ombudsman
Just a quick reminder to anyone who believes Sun has done something bad in the community; we do have a community ombudsman service. Send e-mail to ombudsman@sun...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Media Counter
A display of changes in social media over time. The specifics are not that useful, but it is an impressive representation of how many people are engaging with social...
From The Eponymous Pickle
ROI of Data Mining
A good post on the high ROI for data mining in innovative organizations. Contains a good set of examples that have worked in this space that are instructive. It...
From My Biased Coin
Major (and Minor) Happenings : Gu-Yeon Wei
I'm thrilled to announce that my colleague Gu-Yeon Wei, in EE here at Harvard, received tenure. I feel this is worth a mention because:1) Strangely, people sometimes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IPhone versus Blackberry Shoppers
Retailers discover differences between IPhone and Blackberry users. By Evan Schuman in Storefrontbacktalk.
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Draw-a-Squid Contest
Draw a squid, win Jeff Vandermeer`s Ambergris novels.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Members Build Membership in CSTA
Have you ever wondered about the other members of CSTA? Questions like "Where are the other members?" or "Who are the other members?" One of the best ways to grow...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Spot Shopper Data Mining
This blog emerged from connections nurtured at our innovation centers. One of the topics we covered for years was how to talk to the shopper as they roamed thesmart...
From Computational Complexity
Notes on Dagstuhl
A few notes on Dagshul which Lance and I were at last week. I could tell you about the talks, but the website does a better job: here I value goingLinear...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Apps Economy
BusinessWeek short video and article: Inside the App Economy. Great introduction to the whole notion of both mobile and social networking applications. More about...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Statistical Learning Book
Mike Cristiani of MIG points out that the book: The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining Inference and Prediction, by Hastie, Tibshirani and Friedman Second...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Converge Magazine
An education oriented site and mag whose tagline is: Education is Destiny.
From The Eponymous Pickle
ESPN Partners with WIMI
WIMI, The Wharton Interactive Marketing Initiative reports that they have established a partnership with ESPN. Press release and details here.
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science