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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
More Virtual Research
Had another excellent interaction with John Milby, CEO of the startup Full Scale Virtual Research,which uses some of the technology developed at Procter & Gamble...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital and Non-Digital Research Tools
In Progressive Grocer: On the integration of digital and non digital research. Perhaps obvious, but it is well put here. In particular how increasingly granular...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deep Learning
From KurzweilAI: More on deep learning. On the future of bio inspired neural network infrastructure intelligence. We creep closer to human intelligence by...
From Computational Complexity
Too Much Competition?
On Friday the New York Times ran an article on how online retailers constantly adjust prices to match their competitors. Their ability builds on many tools from...
From Schneier on Security
Feudal Security
It’s a feudal world out there. Some of us have pledged our allegiance to Google: We have Gmail accounts, we use Google Calendar and Google Docs, and we have Android...
From Putting People First
In safe hands
Clare Brass is the team leader of Sustain at the Royal College of Art in London, where she presides over a radical initiative to make sustainability a core issue...
From Putting People First
Morality, the next frontier in human-computer interaction
John Pavlus reflects in the MIT Technology Review on a short essay by Gary Marcus in the New Yorker about the ethical quandaries raised by Google’s driverless car...
From Putting People First
How Ford makes its cars smarter
In the fast-evolving world of connected cars, CTO Paul Mascarenas is bringing Detroit and Silicon Valley together to chart Ford’s path into the future. Brian Cooley...
From Putting People First
Intel’s UX research on touch interface usage and Ultrabooks
One of the more innovative studies to come along at Intel in regards to user experience and the Ultrabook is Daria Loi’s global survey of touch interface usage....
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 3 December 2012
Last week was about getting some professional development time. I spent two days at the Christa McAuliffe Technology Conference where I attended some good sessions...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Payment Data
It is suggested that the data associated with payment is more valuable than the any payment fees themselves. More. " .. Tomorrow: Payment Data Will Revolutionize...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Critics of Mobile Advertising
In GigaOM: Had not thought of all the issues brought up here. Certainly they are all in play to some degree, but there are not enough statistics to understand...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
“Tire Tracks” poster and brochure – “Continuing Innovation in Information Technology”
In 1995, the Computer Science & Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council published the first “Tire Tracks Diagram” – illustrating the complex interplay...
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Living on the Edge of Existence
Reading Jack Kerouac's Dharma Bums made me wonder whether my life should be more exciting. While exploring this, I had the following conversation. Martin: YouMe...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hypervoice from Hypertext
The next Internet Frontier? Wouldn't you like to have voice data searchable, findable and sharable, in any language? Imagine podcasts, speeches and voice consumer...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
2012 PCAST Review of NITRD – slides and webcast from public briefing
In December 2010, the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) conducted an extensive review of the Federal Networking and Information...
From Geeking with Greg
Quick links
More of what caught my attention recently: Android now has 72.4% of the mobile market, up from 52.5% a year ago ([1]) Google's new Nexus 4 smartphone is in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Less Computer
In Technology Review: Turning any surface into a computer interface with an augmented light bulb. I like the simplification.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bringing Healthcare Home
A topic close to home recently. I have now featured the technological aspects of this in several talks I have given. An opportunity to use new tech and social...
From The Eponymous Pickle