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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
Autodesk Prints 3D Virus
Did not know that Autodesk had a genetic engineer. Worked with them in the area of displaying marketing data for the enterprise. From 3D Print: " ... WeavingHe...
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History of Mail and Things Communicating
Recall using mail on the Arpanet in those early days, but it was never seen then as a means to stay generally connected. Only to answer very specific questions...
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Smart Systems Services
Brought to my attention. Nothing very new here, but a good overview of the topic. Enabling Smart System Services in Smart Cities by Dr. Ko-Yang Wang, CTO andWith...
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Need for Practical Anthropology
While I was at the enterprise we had precisely, and rather informally, one anthropologist. Was always fascinated by the role. Understanding human behavior isExperienta...
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Robotic Explorers
Without sensors or GPS a group of robots can explore. " .... The system uses stereo vision depth-sensing to provide the obstacle map, and other image-processing...
From Putting People First
Hospitable Hospice, Redesigning Care for Tomorrow
Design for good death Hospitable Hospice, Redesigning Care for Tomorrow An IDEA 2014 Award winner research project Free download: issuu, pdf Existing healthcare...
From Putting People First
Event: Why the world needs anthropologists
An upcoming event is encouraging anthropologists to “come out of their ivory towers” and work more closely with their colleagues in the field, in order to bridge...
From Putting People First
Update on EU research on energy efficient built environments
The European Commission funds research on a lot of important thematic areas, and in recent years the themes of sustainability and participatory approaches have...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stop Controlling Ex Employees Knowledge?
In the HBR: This issue has come up a number of times recently. Here a good overview of the topic. Not everyone agrees. The coverage of the legal, compliance...
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Marketing and the Internet of Things
It is about data. Its about reach. Anna Russell writes:" .... Let’s take a step back and look at just what the Internet of Things contains that might excite...
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IPad Friendly Kid Augmented Reality Game
Have seen a number of augmented reality games. These use real world spaces as a playing field. Here Osmo has received considerable funding." ... Osmo, the iPad...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A New Provable Factoring Algorithm
Factoring, factoring, the whole day through, keeps on my mind—apologizes to Hoagy Carmichael and Stuart Gorrell Waterloo Mathematics source Michael Rubinstein is...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: 1,057 Squid T-Shirts
That's a lot. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. And commenting was broken for a...
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Integrating Work and Life
The ultimate goal. Successfully integrating work and life. From Knowledge@Wharton. Book interview and text.
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Open Sourcing the Internet of Things
In ReadWriteWeb: An overview piece about setting standards for the IoT, and how those standards should be open sourced. Agree, have been through this with the...
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Future Software Will be Cognitive
Will the next generation of software be cognitive? Good piece in Forrester. I am a keen student of the reasons for the partial success and failures of AI as advisory...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF CISE Funding Opportunities
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computing & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) has a number of new funding opportunities. National Robotics...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stream Data Processing
In Infoq:The demand for stream processing is increasing a lot these days. The reason is that often processing big volumes of data is not enough. Data has to beThis...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
DCL From NSF Director Dr. France Córdova
The following is a National Science Foundation (NSF) Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) by Director Dr. France A. Córdova. October 16, 2014 Dear Colleague, In light of...
From Schneier on Security