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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 2009-05-21
Slow loris loves getting tickled Here's how to keep your slow loris happy. (tags: Loris OpenSolaris video YouTube...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Building Leadership from Within
A Fortune piece on P&G's leadership strategy. How will this assure effective transition of leadership? ' ... What makes Lafley so confident is a rigorous leadership...
From The Noisy Channel
Google Suggests
I haven’t seen this in my own browser yet, but MG Siegler at TechCrunch reports that Google Suggest has added advertising (see Google’s official post here). It...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Discovery Systems that Check Facts
Good piece from IEEE Computer that looks at the concept of discovery systems. This type of AI system constructs hypotheses from raw data presented and then continues...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pringles Lose Appeal
An appeals court has argued against them, Pringles owe VAT tax. Via Richard James. ' ... Procter & Gamble will be forced to pay tens of millions of pounds in VAT...
From Putting People First
Science alone will not save us
Changing behaviour will be as vital as new technologies in tackling climate change. So where is the funding for linguists, anthropologists and sociologists? Tariq...
From Putting People First
Portfolios of the Poor: Financial diaries of the bottom billion
Portfolios of the Poor: How the World’s Poor Live on $2 a Day by Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford, Orlanda Ruthven Princeton University Press Hardcover...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Promoted to full professor
At least in North America, professors are usually first hired at the rank of assistant professor. Your salary is poor and you have little job security. Once you...
From CERIAS Blog
Solving the Wrong Problems
In lieu of a new posting here, let me direct you to the June 2009 issue of Communications of the ACM, pages 22-24. That is an essay I wrote that echoes some of...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-05-20
Calling All Southampton Hackers! More local geek activity. Given the employment profile in the area I've been amazed this sortSouthampton...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Laws of Simplicity
Been reading some of John Maeda's work, we met him briefly at the MIT Media lab a few years ago. He is now the president of the Rhode Island School of Design.his...
From Putting People First
Humin - because innovation is a human business
Experientia is proud to announce the official launch of Humin, a programme developed for Flemish SMEs and start?ups that creates competitive advantage through people...
From Putting People First
Museums and libraries in a digital age
The Futures of Learning blog, which is associated with a MacArthur Foundation project, just announced a new blog series that reports on the literature review conducted...
From The Noisy Channel
SIGIR
At long last, SIGIR 2009 has posted the program for the Industry Track! It will take place on Wednesday, July 22, 2009 during the regular conference program (in...
From The Noisy Channel
Approach and Identify
Back on my 30th birthday, my wife gave me a copy of Logan’s Run, with a card ensuring me that I’d found sanctuary. The joke is probably lost on those who haven’t...
From The Noisy Channel
Approach and Identify
Back on my 30th birthday, my wife gave me a copy of Logan’s Run, with a card ensuring me that I’d found sanctuary. The joke is probably lost on those who haven’t...
From Wild WebMink
Fighting Fund for the Big WOBber
You'll remember my recent posting about the fine work journalist Brenno de Winter has been doing in his spare time, bringing a little healing daylight into local...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Inside the Mind of the Shopper Published
Herb Sorensen book is now out Inside the Mind of the Shopper: The Science of Retailing, from Wharton School Publishing. It details some of his work exploring how...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Berners-Lee on Linked Data
This ReadWrite Web post points to a good TED talk by Tim Berners-Lee and give you an overview of the topic of Linked Data. With the suggestion that this is the...
From The Eponymous Pickle