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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
Google Spectacles Arriving
The long anticipated Google Glass head mounted displays are finally on the horizon with events being held for developers. Looking at this for a client. In Fast...
From Schneier on Security
Cheating at Chess
There's a fascinating story about a probable tournament chess cheat. No one knows how he does it; there's only the facts that 1) historically he's not nearly as...
From Putting People First
Rob van Kranenberg’s comprehensive global Internet of Things action plan
Rob Van Kranenburg, a member of the EU Expert Group on the Internet of Things, has published a provocative comprehensive global Internet of Things action plan,...
From Putting People First
Helsinki Design Lab closing in June 2013
Marco Steinberg, who directs the strategic design efforts of the Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra, announced last week that Sitra’s Helsinki Design Lab will close...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Teaching Human Language to Computers
A talk with futurist Ray Kurzweil, now with Google, on a favorite topic. I emphasize the task of 'teaching', rather than just programming. And understanding...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Concept Map about Mapping
A map to describe mapping methods. A frequently used approach in our enterprise, I still use the idea often in consulting, now nicely facilitated by portable tablets...
From The Eponymous Pickle
PC Dominance Over
Gartner makes some comments on this and it is covered in Computerworld. Not unexpected. My own observation over the holidays in the home , and waiting in airports...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Book Generation
In ReadwriteWeb: More detail on Phil Parker's econometric book generation algorithms. That are said to be generating millons of books that are sold on Amazon....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shadow IT
In CIO Dashboard: A term I had not specifically heard of. Though the world of Bring your own device (BYOD) has been in action for some time. A survey of CIOs...
From Putting People First
A sustainable building promotes pro-environmental behavior
A Sustainable Building Promotes Pro-Environmental Behavior: An Observational Study on Food Disposal by Wu DW, DiGiacomo A, Kingstone A PLoS ONE 8(1): e53856. doi...
From Putting People First
Experientia® Prisma kitchen in Interni Annual Cucina 2012
The Interni Annual Cucina 2012 is out, and this year’s monograph features Experientia’s Prisma design for Toncelli Kitchens. The Prisma was the 2012 flagship kitchen...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Where Do Domestic Ph.D. Students in CS Come From?
The CRA’s Education Committee has published a new report in the January 2013 edition of Computing Research News on the Baccalaureate Origins of Domestic Ph.D. Students...
From Schneier on Security
Lexical Warfare
This essay, which uses the suicide of Aaron Swartz as a jumping off point for how the term "hactivist" has been manipulated by various powers, has this to say about...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
XML for databases: a dead idea
One of my colleagues is teaching an artificial intelligence class. In his class, he uses old videos where experts from the early eighties make predictions about...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mindmeld
Brought to my attention from Expectlabs.com. Their system called MindMeld, initially designed to be delivered to the iPad, that will monitor conversations and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Should we be Worried about?
What scientific issues should be we worried about? The Edge asked for contributions and received these suggestions, from well known scientists in many fields.
From Schneier on Security
Anti-Surveillance Clothing
It's both an art project and a practical clothing line. ...Harvey's line of "Stealth Wear" clothing includes an "anti-drone hoodie" that uses metalized material...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computer Science Postdocs — Best Practices Guide
The following is an article published in the January 2013 edition of Computing Research News. If you would like receive CRN via email, you can sign up here. Computer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hack the Kitchen?
In Mashable: Campbell Soup offers prize to develop meal planning App. I like the idea of delivering suggestions based one taste, meal history, budget, time available...
From The Eponymous Pickle