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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
Using and Building Mobile Assistants
The idea has been around for some time, and mostly publicly with the Apple Siri. A mobile assistant. Now more recently have found myself using them more freqently...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smartstones
Brought to my attending by a former colleague and correspondent. The startup Smartstones: " ... Stay connected and in step with loved ones, simply by touching...
From The Eponymous Pickle
ROI in the Age of Integration
Colleague Kim Medynsky writes in Marketing, Media, Advertising and PR in Canada: Kim Medynsky, MBA, is principal at Medynsky & Associates" ... The return on investment...
From Schneier on Security
Details of Apple's Fingerprint Recognition
This is interesting: Touch ID takes a 88x88 500ppi scan of your finger and temporarily sends that data to a secure cache located near the RAM, after the data is...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Branching Out: Modeling Topics in Social Science
Santa Fe Institute's GUTS y Girls program, in partnership with Arizona State University professor Dan Hruschka, has developed a new curriculum to engage students...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon and the Last Mile
In Retailwire: Amazon plans to own the last mile. " .... Authenticating rumors in the marketplace, Amazon is indeed testing its own delivery network in the U.S...
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Taking Notes by Hand
In Fastcompany: Taking notes by hand is better for memory. ' ... The Best Way To Remember Something? Take Notes By Hand. People who write notes by hand remember...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Parallel Coordinates Visualization
From ZoTero: Examples using parallel coordinates, a method we integrated into the toolbox of standard methods for similar data. " ... Data Visualization Experiments...
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Seeking Touchy Data Visualization
From Carnegie Mellon: " ... Two researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are exploring how touch devices, such as Apple's iPad, can be used in data analysis...
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AR TV and Programming
In Mashable: Augmented television. " ... A new venture in television created by a San Francisco-based startup combines web content with television programming in...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Extreme Scale Design Automation
The following is a special contribution to this blog by Josep Torrellas, Professor at the Departments of Computer Science and (by courtesy) Electrical and Computer...
From Schneier on Security
A New Pencil-and-Paper Encryption Algorithm
Handycipher is a new pencil-and-paper symmetric encryption algorithm. I'd bet a gazillion dollars that it's not secure, although I haven't done the cryptanalysis...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 28 April 2014
I’m officially on vacation this week. I’m not sure if there will be an interesting links post next week as I plan to take some time off of the Internet. In thehttp...
From Computational Complexity
The Big bang Theory hits close to home
On a recent episode of The Big Bang Theory Sheldon gives up String theory because, after working on it for 20 years, he has nothing to show for his efforts. Icompactify...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM and MS, Building on their Legacies
I attended some of these announcements this past week. How much does this change the direction of mega IT companies? Not too much I think. In GigaOM: A somewhat...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blogging Today
An interesting view of how blogging has changed. What we have gained and lost. I have blogged, sometimes in several places, for several companies, from nearly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Oculus Neuro Gaming
Have had several conversations recently about the Oculus virtual reality system. A head mounted, but very visible form of wearable computing. So what is all the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Views of Millennials
I like to see attempts at segmentation of population groups, especially with regard to their commercial habits. But also have considerable caution about the use...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Institute of Human and Machine Cognition
I was just reminded of the IHMC. Who we worked with for several years experimenting with the capture of internal and customer knowledge. " ... Florida Institute...
From Putting People First