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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
Bing vs Google
From Knowledge@Wharton: Bing Gives Microsoft a Boost, but Can It Compete with Google?. I have been using Bing occasionally, even comparing the two at times, but...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Federal CIO Dashboards
Steve Few examines the design of existing Federal CIO dashboards. He makes some excellent points. I believe that DBs should show the right data for a given responsibility...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Learning Through Games
From the ACM: Learning Through GamesElectronic games can inspire players to explore new ideas and concepts. By gaining a better understanding of the dynamic between...
From Return 42;
Evolution of the Google File System
This week seems to be review week. While I would love to finish some more technical posts, a new article in ACM Queue stopped me from actually doing that. The article...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Roambi BI on the IPhone
Always thought there was a place for good interactive Business intelligence visualization on the IPhone. For example in retail where I had to get lots of supporting...
From Return 42;
How Does Pair Programming Work?
November last year, Stuart Wray, senior lecturer at the Royal School of Signals in Blandford, United Kingdom, submitted a paper called How does pair programming...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
The Worst That Could Happen
No doubt CS teachers in the USA are aware of the Julie Amero case, where the Connecticut substitute teacher was convicted on four counts of risk of injury to aThe...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-08-07
Archives names expert as new FOIA ombudsman It slipped past me when it was announced in June, but the US Federal Government has...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
A review of
I learned programming on my own when I was twelve years old with a TRS-80 and Microsoft Basic. The documentation that came with the TRS-80 was fantastic. Alas,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brain Waves and Ad Effectiveness
Sands Research releases a new article, good details. Particularly useful here, a comparison to more traditional methods. What can measuring brain waves tell us...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Selling into the Right Ear
Years ago, when I did experiments with sleep learning, this was part of the process, emphasize use of the right ear. I had thought all of that was debunked, but...
From Return 42;
Congratulations to Susan Dumais
Today, the ACM issued a press release that Susan Dumais from Microsoft Research (formerly Bell Labs/Bellcore) received the Gerard Salton Award for her innovative...
From The Eponymous Pickle
You are Approach the End of the Moving Walkway
Moving walkways. You have seen them in airports, Vegas and in limited ways in transit systems. Why have they not taken off more broadly? They have a surprisingly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Worlds in Business
Building, Populating, and Interacting with Virtual Worlds. I continue to believe this is something to figure out, though I have yet to see a solution that does...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crowdsourcing Electronic Design Automation
In IEEE Spectrum, a good example of mixing the pattern recognition capabilities of humans and complex simulations. Essentially a game and an excellent exampleCrowdsourcing...
From Apophenia
Teens Don't Tweet... Or Do They?
Yesterday, Mashable reported Nielsen's latest Twitter numbers with the headline Stats Confirm It: Teens Don't Tweet. This gained traction on Twitter turning into...
From Putting People First