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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
The New Marketing Golden Age
Long piece, lots of interesting thoughts. I have been involved in many parts of these efforts, not all successful. Though the tech is fictionalized, it did happen...
From The Eponymous Pickle
CogSketch
Very interesting project. We examined a number of ways to make people more visually creative, including training groups to improve their ability to sketch. Many...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Beacons and Retail Shelf Labels
We did much work with electronic shelf labels (ESL). See the link below for much more. Quite natural to connect them to the beacon idea as part of retail infrastructure...
From Computational Complexity
Computers Turn Good and Evil
Entertainment Weekly proclaimed 2015 the year that artificial intelligence will rule the (movie) world with talk of the Terminator reboot, the new Avengers movie...
From Geeking with Greg
Quick links
What has caught my attention lately: "Ads are often annoying ... [and] the practice of running annoying ads can cost more money than it earns" ([1] [2] [3]) Robot...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Securing of IOT Device Data
In the CACM: Work is going ahead on security concerns for the Internet of Things. This sounds simple, but I wonder that it won't be easy to unravel" ... The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Driverless Cars and Retail
In the News, concept cars designed for a driverless future. In a previous post I pointed to a simulation study that indicated that driverless cars could increase...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Strap HQ Software and Analytics Platform
Strap. Brought to my attention. A local startup of interest. More to follow. " ... The only platform that goes everywear ... " ...." ... Strap is a software...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Scaling Kanban
Being agile. " ... It is a misconception that in an agile organization all teams would use agile methods. There are many different methods, teams have to apply...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hadoop and Governance
A topic that has come up a number of times in discussions about the construction of Big Data solutions. Is it a test bench system or a fundamental part of a company's...
From Schneier on Security
Tracking Bitcoin Scams
Interesting paper: "There's No Free Lunch, Even Using Bitcoin: Tracking the Popularity and Profits of Virtual Currency Scams," by Marie Vasek and Tyler Moore. Abstract...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Limitations of Geospatial Analytics
In Datamag: Really some very classic issues about the limitations of long term forecasting in general. " ... From a statistical analysis standpoint, modeling...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visual Search for eProcurement
Have brought up this method a number of times for minimizing costs. Now new methods include a novel visualization supporting search to find better, cheaper, procurement...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Fiscal Year 2016 Budget Request
Yesterday, the National Science Foundation (NSF) Director France A. Córdova outlined President Obama’s fiscal year (FY) 2016 budget request to Congress for NSF....
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Girls Who Code Is Hiring Paid Teaching Staff
Looks like these opportunities are in New York, Detroit and San Francisco. Girls Who Code is a national non-profit organization working to close the gender gap...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Leading Thinkers on Growth and Prosperty
In McKinsey:"Leading thinkers on how to maintain economic growth and prosperity .... What is the single biggest opportunity we can act on now to sustain rising...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Process Modeling and Cognitive AI
Announcement of a webinar February 18, on BPM and Cognitive AI. By colleague Peter Fingar. As a practioner of both technologies, this interaction is a favorite...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Echo as a Task Channel
Have ordered an Amazon Echo. This is the Amazon always-on microphone/speaker. Which claims an AI voice recognition and task enablement system. It is Beta,...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
New USDOT Connected Vehicle Solicitation
The United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) is pleased to announce the release of a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for the Connected Vehicle (CV) Pilot...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog