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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 Computational Complexity
A Fly on the wall for a Harvard Faculty meeting: Not interesting for Gossip but interesting for a more important reason
I was recently in Boston for Mikefest (which Lance talked about here) and found time to talk to my adviser Harry Lewis at Harvard (adviser? Gee, I already finished...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Why competitive people are often dumb and boring
People who work hard are typically motivated by either their performance (i.e., they want to look good) or their mastery (i.e., they like being good at their craft)...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Context for Evernote
Have now used the Evernote note taking and information management system for years. I like it, especially since they improved their multiple interfaces. It also...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Connected Products Killing Industries
Have heard this before, not universally true. Especially when you have to move atoms vs bits. Or apply scarce resources. Like in all transportation industries...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of November 17
November 18 Hearing: The House Veterans’ Affairs Committee will hold a hearing on information security at the Veterans’ Administration 1:30 p.m., 334 Cannon Building...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data is Here to Stay, and don't forget the right Metadata
With some warnings. I agree, we are never going to gather just less complex, wildly aggregated or less data. We will error on the side of more data. I add, we...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fujitsu Data Enables LED Light
In CWorld: Fujitsu Develops method which will allow products to send data to smartphones." ... LED lamps lighting merchandise may soon shine invisible data that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook Wants Office Presence
This was an area we examined. What infrastructure would work best to deliver social style interaction among employees, among employees and contractors? Linkedin...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 17 November 2014
Last week was crazy for me. Professional development day last Monday and Veterans Day on Tuesday just made things start differently. Friday was a travel day asFaces...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tailored Digital Sign Experience
A long time research interest, better and more personalized interaction with the shopper via digital signage:" ... Photon Interactive, a company that’s been focused...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Keeping Online Reviews Honest
In the CACM: Some useful suggestions and statistics." ... As commerce increasingly moves online, consumers worldwide are relying more and more on online reviews...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Alexander Grothendieck 1928–2014
Creating vast beautiful mansions from the becoming of nothing L’espace d’un homme film source Alexander Grothendieck, who signed his works in French “Alexandre”...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Handsets and Clouds
Good questions. Will The Smartphone Become Obsolete? ... A look at how cloud technology may change the future of mobile handsets. ... In the current mobile manufacturing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Can Retail Tech Save Stores
In Cisco Blog: A number of familiar technology areas we worked in. " .... It’s no surprise retailers are pulling out the stops to get shoppers into stores....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mining a Global New Products Database
For food and beverage, mined to produce an infographic on sweetener indifference. " ... Research firm Mintel recently analyzed its Global New Products DatabaseAlways...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kids Programming Toys
In Engadget: An internet of toys? The idea of specially designed, kid oriented technical toys has been around for some time, most notable is Lego Mindstorms. ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Thinking Causality in Science and Statistics
I have been looking back to understand how AI has changed since the 90s, when we worked with rule based expert systems. One book that addresses some of the changes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Service Innovation Revisited
Repeating the below introduction, giving a talk to them next week, more to follow about that. I am further struck how much this has to do with cognitive/advisory...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CSEdWeek activities December 8-14, 2014
Blatantly stolen from the CSTA announcement mailing list. We want to hear from all CS teachers! We are calling on YOU to participate in CSEdWeek activitieswww...
From The Eponymous Pickle