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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
Conversation with Marc Andreeson
A provocative conversation with a person we used to follow closely. Inventor of the early Netscape browser we all used back then. Optimism is best, he says.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Developing Pill to Detect Disease
In Wired. An idea that was first posed back in the earlier AI days. Is it now close to happening?" ... Google is attempting to develop a pill that would sendAndrew...
From Putting People First
A constructionist approach to behaviour change and the Internet of Things
Dan Lockton just posted an essay on how to enable social and environmental behaviour change by using IoT-type technologies for practical co-creation and constructionist...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Reconstructing Gödel
What exactly was his “Philosophical Viewpoint”? Austria Forum source Kurt Gödel left a large amount of unpublished writings and notebooks and preserved correspondence...
From My Biased Coin
Weekend Links (November 1 Edition)
A variety of links on related news.Ebola #1 (local): The HackEbola with Data website gives detail for the upcoming Harvard Hacking event in conjunction with Statistics...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson Developer Cloud
Andy Boyd, developer contact at IBM, pointed me to the Watson Developer Cloud, just launched. Nicely done. Especially interested in the community aspect of the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Image Recognition: Human v Monkey
In Wired: Looking into the networks necessary for key kinds of sensory intelligence." ... For about a decade now, brain scientists like Charles Cadieu have run...
From The Eponymous Pickle
HP Embraces 3D Printing, Immersion
In CWorld: Will this change manufacturing? The move is good to watch. It is blended reality, they say. New term to me, I prefer 'remote manufacturing' as more...
From Putting People First
Biennale Interieur investigates homemaking in the digital age
Anna Bergren Miller provides a short write-up in Shareable on how Joseph Grima and Space Caviar explored changing notions of domesticity at the 2014 Biennale Interieur...
From Putting People First
The challenge of connecting the unconnected
Every time we return to or sign up for an Internet service (e.g. Facebook, Google, Gmail, YouTube, etc.), writes Hassan Baig on TechCrunch, we rely on what UX experts...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Placing a Price on Data Assets
Am in the midst of addressing just such a task. What is data worth? What is its risk? " .... We know in our gut that data has value. No company can run without...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Many Vs in Big Data?
Had a conversation about this recently. Three is quite sufficient to categorize the key aspects of Big Data (Volume, Velocity, Variety). This article explains...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Little Squid
Beautiful photo. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wirelessly Charging Devices from your Washer
An unexpected thought covered in Engadget. " ... WattUp technology promises to deliver power over the same radio bands as a WiFi router and is apparently able...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mending Networks
Network design is a favorite topic. It was taught in Operations Research classes. It was both analytical and visual. Combining two appealing ideas.Here, more...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Reality Boom Beyond Gaming
In Ars Technica: For a while there it seemed like VR was being used much less outside of gaming. Now the tide seems to have turned. This article is rich in surprising...
From Schneier on Security
Hacking Team Documentation
The Intercept has published the complete manuals for Hacking Team's attack software. This follows a detailed report on Hacking Team's products from August. Hacking...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Uncertainty in Computation Workshop
Mahsa Mirzargar, Ph.D. and Lace Padilla from the University of Utah contributed to this post. The Computing Community Consortium’s (CCC) Uncertainty in Computation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ant Size Radios
Back to idea of swarming intelligence, but now linking to an Internet of Things." ... Scientists at Stanford University have built ant-sized radios that could one...
From The Eponymous Pickle