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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
UK Smart City
An interesting piece about how Glasgow, Scotland has won a competition to be the UK's first 'Smart City' experiment, linking widespread sensors and analytics to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Graph Search for Recruiting
In Mashable: Using Facebook Graph search for recruiting. I am seeing more companies today interested in hiring, but making sure to sure they hire the right...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Machines and World Without Work
General AP article that covers a number of developments in the last decade. Perhaps leading to less labor. This kind of labor singularity is still some distance...
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Efficiency vs Value in Innovation
In Innovation Excellence: A look at the innovation equation. Measurement is always a useful exercise, even if you don't use the measure directly. " ... What...
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Improving Your Personal Brand
I was pointed to some interesting pieces in this blog about measuring and improving your personal brand: . " ... Leaders need to have a big, bold vision that others...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Marketing Spend Rising
AdAge article on how increasing P&G performance is leading to increasing its marketing spending. P&G already planned to step up marketing and innovation in the...
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Scanning the Brains of Dogs
In Wired: An article about how DARPA is planning to scan the brains of dogs to make better choices of military pairings. An interesting idea that could look...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data Skill Shortage?
Forbes piece on what they call a Big Data Skills Shortage. Here I believe that followup training to a typical Computer Science or Information Management degree...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Making Primes More Random
Mathematical tricks Ben Green grew up about 100 meters from the house in Bristol where Paul Dirac was born and lived until age 10. He has followed Dirac to Cambridge...
From Wild WebMink
Body As Instrument
Fascinating video of Imogen Heap explaining her “gloves” – actually a set of instrumentation that detects body position and gestures and provides haptic and visual...
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The Problem with "Mansplaining"
The "mansplaining" meme, which captures the phenomenon of men being patronizing to women in conversation, is trending on the internet. There is a Tumblr here; a...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Education and Industry–Friends or Foes?
Industry and education should be the best of friends. They should both be working towards some common goals. Mutually supportive allies. These days that doesn’t...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squirming Tentacle USB Drive
Just the thing. (Note that this is different than the previous squid USB drive I blogged about.) As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the...
From Schneier on Security
Video Interview with Me
This interview was conducted last month, at an artificial intelligence conference at Oxford.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neuroscience Shopper Engagements
Ron Wright of Sands Research Writes to me:Lily Glick was the lead on the POPAI Shopper Engagement Study and we throughly enjoyed working with her on this project...
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Forrester on New Workplaces
Another look at where we work and why. Technology has opened lots of new possibilities, but also new overhead to making the process work. I was at a meeting yesterday...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Windows 8 Game Development Links
My good friend Lindsay Lindstrom has started a series on creating Windows 8 games on her blog. Somehow I seem to have neglected to post links to it here. So here...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Making Virtual Reality Real
In Fast Company: Did lots of work dealing with how a virtual presence could be be as real as possible. So these findings are useful.
From Schneier on Security
Shaming as Punishment for Repeated Drunk Driving
Janesville, Wisconsin, has published information about repeated drunk driving offenders since 2010. The idea is that the public shame will reduce future incidents...
From Wild WebMink