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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 Putting People First
Experientia designs mobile site for UN affiliate to promote mobile learning
This week, the ITC-ILO, a United Nations affiliate, officially launched an Experientia-designed mobile site to promote mobile learning tools within the organisation...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Euler’s Constants
Having a constant named after you is cool Jeffrey Lagarias was a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories for years, and later joined the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Laundry
Though it may seem an odd topic for here, have for a long time followed innovations in the process of doing the laundry. Despite it seeming a very mundane thing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Air Interfaces
In GigaOM: Saw something similar at graphics show. Required some hard to manage setup, but was impressively mysterious. But that example was display only andDisplair...
From Schneier on Security
SHA-3 Status
NIST's John Kelsey gave an excellent talk on the history, status, and future of the SHA-3 hashing standard. The slides are online.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Glass App Store
In Mashable: A Google Glass App store is planned by next year. This will be very useful indication of exactly how serious developers for this new computing format...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Small Data Becoming Big Data
In SmartData Collective, By Mark van Rijmenam" ... small data can become big data by cleverly combining various data sets with different data formats; Combine weather...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robotic Cleaning
In IEEE Spectrum: As might be expected we avidly explored the future of cleaning. In particular we examined robotic approaches. Watching development and commercialization...
From Schneier on Security
Business Opportunities in Cloud Security
Bessemer Venture Partners partner David Cowan has an interesting article on the opportunities for cloud security companies. Richard Stiennnon, an industry analyst...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crowdsourcing Grading
I remember being part of a group that did this long before it was called crowd sourcing, unofficially and informally checking assignments and providing help within...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM Submits Comments to the FCC on Accessibility Waiver Request for E-Readers
USACM today submitted comments to the FCC on a request by the Coalition of E-Reader Manufacturers to exempt e-readers from the accessibility requirements under...
From Geeking with Greg
More quick links
More of what I found interesting lately: The apparent philosophy of the design of biological processes: "Never refactor if you can incrementally add another[1]...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Science of Human Nature and Behavior: A Master Class
I was reminded of this conference by a correspondent, held in 2011:In The Edge:" ... Princeton psychologist Daniel Kahneman on the marvels and the flaws of intuitive...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Probing the Hive Mind
To what degree does the Wikipedia act as a single brain? In Sciencenews: What implied rules underlie its operation as a useful resource? I can see this as thelinks...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Reality Gaming
I followed VR for years, looking at the potential for using reality spaces to solve problems in abstract spaces. Spaces that could could be used as analogs tosome...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Jeff Bezos and the WaPo
One of our little businesses uses Jeff Bezo's infrastructure. So I am always interested in his directions. He plans a 'Golden Age', perhaps linking newspapers...
From Schneier on Security
Syrian Electronic Army Cyberattacks
The Syrian Electronic Army attacked again this week, compromising the websites of the New York Times, Twitter, the Huffington Post, and others. Political hacking...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Devices on Order:Tablet, Glass, Watch?
In a spirited conversation with a colleague today. On the eve of the delivery of the 'smart watch' device. I was inspired by a current project that will look...
From The Eponymous Pickle
GE is About What is Next
GE with who I have worked with locally and globally, has always impressed me as forward looking. From promoting innovation to the use of leading edge technologies...
From The Eponymous Pickle