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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 …
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Inventing and Nurturing the Joke
Who invented the joke? Famed classicist Mary Beard claims it was the Romans. A joke is an explosive, minimal point making story connecting with our emotions in...
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Creating Reality Distortion Fields
My former boss Bob Herbold, writing on leadership, talks about reality distortion fields. A term new to me. " ... In summary, when there are big opportunities...
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Death of the Tablet Magazine
In GigaOM: I don't follow this closely, but have experimented with methods like Flipboard. Overall this surprises me. With particular criticism of the Apple...
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Tracking You Everywhere
Google Is Testing A Program That Tracks You Everywhere You Go, in the Business Insider. Pointing to a report in DigiDay.
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Informs Conference on Business of Big Data
I see that Bill Franks of Teradata will be the keynote speaker at the Informs conference on The Business of Big Data. San Jose, June 22-24. " ... Putting BigAt...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Even faster bitmap decoding
Bitmaps are a simple data structure used to represent sets of integers. For example, you can represent all sets of integers in [0,64) using a single 64-bit integer...
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Japanese Robot Dominates DARPA
Contrary to other reports. In CWorld. " ... Japanese robot crushes rivals at DARPA challengeResearchers advance state of the art in humanoid robot competitionThe...
From Computational Complexity
Our Journal is 99 44/100 percent pure!!
Sometimes we are asked to evaluate how good a journal or conference formally(Excellent, Very Good, Good, Fair, Better-than-being-poked-by-a-stick,pass the stick)...
From Schneier on Security
NSA Spying: Who Do You Believe?
On Friday, Reuters reported that RSA entered a secret contract to make DUAL_EC_PRNG the default random number generator in the BSAFE toolkit. DUA_EC_PRNG is now...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 23 December 2013
Christmas Break! I teach in a Catholic school so we call it that. I’m out of school until January 6th for a nice 16 day break. I have some grading to catch up and...
From Putting People First
Ethnographic research: Facebook is basically dead and buried with UK teenagers
As part of a European Union-funded study on social media (make sure to check also the UCL site and blog on the same project), the Department of Anthropology at...
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DARPA Robot Challenge Viewed
MIT Technology review provides a number of still shots from the DARPA robotics challenge. Another note says that Google's Robot 'recruits' dominated the activity...
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Retailers Embrace Digital Coupons
Via Steve Frenda, Managing Director, The Path to Purchase Institute in LinkedinWell done piece authored by Google's ZaversThe Tipping Point: Retailers Embrace.Lots...
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Collaboration for Process Improvement
Part of my IXN Innovation Exchange Group, in the APQC Blog: by Holly Lyke-Ho-Gland A good statement of what is often a big issue in the enterprise. How do I improve...
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Decision Making Science
New and of interest:Thinking: the New Science of Decision Making, Problem solving and Prediction.CONTRIBUTORS: Daniel C. Dennett, Philip Tetlock, Gerd Gigerenzer...
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The Missing V in Big Data
Often ignored after the 'volume' and 'variability' of big data, its velocity is becoming important. And it's not just about interacting in real time with customers...
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Battle of Basic Utilities
What utilities make a system complete for real work? What turns a tablet or a phone into a PC? I still have to drag around multiple systems and would preferIn...
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Seeking Delivered Aroma on Demand
One of our longtime interests. Can you deliver tailored aroma digitally? On demand and mobile? There have been a half dozen attempts, none very successful.Here...
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Big Data and Robotics
In Smart Data Collective: Robotics and their sensors gather data, real-time analytics aids their decisions, and AI can make them more autonomous. All adds to"...
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