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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
Big Data Will End Segmentation and Long Analysis Times
IBM CEO makes a clear statement about how big data will influence two key areas of marketing measurement an analysis. And makes a clear challenge: " ... Big...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
We are publishing a lot more! How will we cope?
The number of research articles published each year grows exponentially. We often estimate the rate of growth to between 4% to 6% a year. We are publishing a lot...
From Schneier on Security
Automobile Data Surveillance and the Future of Black Boxes
Tesla Motors gave one of its electric cars to John Broder, a very outspoken electric-car skeptic from the New York Times, for a test drive. After a negative review...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 18 February 2013
Another snowy weekend in New Hampshire for me. Not a bad thing as I had a lot of grading to catch up on. But today is a holiday for my school (Washington's Birthday)...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Adding Dollar Signs
A few remarks on papers to appear at the 2013 Computational Com- plexity Conference Chris Umans is the program chair of the upcoming Computational Complexity Conference...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tamagotchi Emerges Again in Gamification
More than a dozen years ago we looked at Bandai's Tamagotchi pets as a potential model for consumer engagement. The basic idea was an early look at what we now...
From Wild WebMink
Unitary Patent Over-simplified By IoS
The IoS may have uncritically picked up the messaging the UK’s “Intellectual Property Office” has been spreading, but the likely outcome of the unitary patent is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Retail Coming?
Mashable reports that Google retail stores are rumored to be on their way. At the very least a carefully selected group of Google stores could provide a wealth...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Drive Fear Out of the Classroom
Many years ago I was privileged to take the famous four day course taught by W Edwards Deming. Deming is widely credited with turning around the Japanese manufacturing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watching You Watch Data
Was briefly involved in a constituent project to this idea. So thinking about the kind and volume of data is very intriguing. Along with closing the loop of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Combating Showrooming With Rebates
Good piece by Theresa Wabler. " .... They key to combating the shopper trend of showrooming is finding creative approaches that serve the consumer and benefit...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Getting the value of Big Data
Perceptive colleague Jason Terry sends along a link to a good overview piece on this topic in ZDnet. Winnowing good data from the junk is part of the reason it...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unintentional Data Innovation
In Technology Review:Why were the recent Russian meteor fall observed by so many cameras? It turns out there is a large incentive, for insurance purposes, to...
From Putting People First
Tablet use in California and Ontario high schools – Field observations by Experientia collaborator
Francesca Salvadori (Italian blog) is an Italian high school teacher who runs a 1:1 iPad pilot program in her school, and collaborates with Experientia on the topic...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Drinkable Costmetics
In Cosmeticsdesign: Popular in Asia, "nutricosmetics" could start to make a splash in the West, trend watchers say. The beauty drinks, some of which contain antioxidants...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: More on Flying Squid
Japanese squid researchers have confirmed flying squid can fly, and how they do it. (Note: I have written about flying squid before.) As usual, you can also use...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics IQ
Fascinating piece on consumer financial intelligence: Analytics-IQ launches industry's most accurate predictor of household economic profiles with "consumer financial...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Turning Data into Smart Data
In Information Week: Fundamentally agree, but it's really more about turning raw data into smarter decisions. I have not lapsed into call everything 'Smarter'...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM