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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
Retail View of the Future
What we attempted to do, for a while at least, in innovation centers. Like what I see here.RETF Offers Glimpse Into the Future of GroceryTesser, a San Francisco...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Uses of Thermal Cameras
Why do you need one on your camera phone? Popular Mechanics looks at some examples.
From The Eponymous Pickle
USAA Marketing Analytics
Keys to marketing analytics, a good case study of the process. United Services Automobile Association USAA, In the Financial, Insurance, Marketing space. Good...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
The Next Generation Driverless Car
We all have seen pictures of a driverless car, loaded with quite a bit of equipment on top of the car to help in the autonomous nature of the car. On June 24,...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A Pretty Identity
Or rather two beautiful identities src Joseph Lagrange was a mathematician and astronomer who made significant contributions to just about everything. Yet like...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A Pretty Identity
Or rather two beautiful identities src Joseph Lagrange was a mathematician and astronomer who made significant contributions to just about everything. Yet like...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Day Two–ISTE 2014
So much of what makes a conference for me is the people. I’m missed the last two ISTE conferences and it has been a while since I have seen a number of people who...
From Computational Complexity
3000 lunches
Last week fortune smiled on two of my friends: Ken Regan made the cover of Chess Life for his work on catching chess cheaters. (See here.) Jacob Lurie who I mentored...
From The Eponymous Pickle
In Car Facial Recognition
In Motor Authority: A means to determine who is in the drivers seat. Security, safety? Insurance? " .... In order to expand the capabilities of in-car tech, Ford...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Phone as Quake Detector
Thousands or possibly millions of smartphones can create a new kind of monitoring network, according to "Community and Sense Response Systems: Your Phone as Quake...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple Wearable Strategy
An interesting piece. A few weeks ago I saw a presentation about the Disney Parks arm bands and how the data from them was being gathered and leveraged. I was...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Day One–ISTE 2014
I actually got here on Friday but things started for real this afternoon. More or less. I was not able to get into one big session of mini talks because the room...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nanotechnology Update
Been a while since I looked at the Foresight Institute's nanotechnology update. We used it as a means to stay up to date on new materials we might want to use...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fierce Retail IT
Newly brought to my attention, newsletter and blog:Free Retail IT Industry News BriefWhether it’s mobile payment fiascos, PCI security changes, E-Commerce hiccups...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social TV, Syncing Social and TV
Recently started to use a system that included what was called 'Social TV'. Which aimed to show a social feed from the other people watching. But there wasReal...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
FCC Chairman Offers Thoughts On Cybersecurity
In remarks at the American Enterprise Institute on June 12, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler outlined how he sees the Commission addressing...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: WTF Evolution Features a Squid
I have always liked the "WTF, Evolution?" blog. Consistently funny, but no squid. But now they have a bit on the vampire squid. As usual, you can also use this...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Banking Assistance
In Engadget: Seeing an increasing interest the assistant idea. It was a big emphasis back in the AI days. The area here, in banking and financial, is an ideal...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog