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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
Brain Simulation
The EU's human brain research simulation project. Have seen a number of attempts to do this kind of thing. None that have made significant progress that I can...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tips for Data Success
Doug Lautzenheiser's tips for success. Do predictive analytics with big data. He as a seasoned data practitioner and has some great analysis and advice. Further...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Accelerating the Speed of Intelligence for Fast and Flexible Results
More on flexible and quick forecasting From A report prepared by CFO Research Services in collaboration with SAP: September 2011. " ... Accelerating the Speed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Must be Fast, Diverse
In GigaOM: A good case is made that the 'bigness' of data is often not enough. In addition, I add: Bigness means you can often find patterns that will be useful...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smarter Vending
Ever since several trips to Japan and their wonderfully complete universal vending capabilities. I have researched the use of vending machines and their integration...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
On the value of a CS education
Back at the beginning of my career a hiring manager told me that he almost recommended that I not be interviewed because I had been formally trained in college....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Creativity and Economy
An article called Why Creativity is the New Economy led me back to the blog and site: Visual Mapping. A favorite topic. We are all visual thinkers. Visual thinking...
From Schneier on Security
Another Liars and Outliers Review
I was reviewed in Science: Thus it helps to have a lucid and informative account such as Bruce Schneier's Liars and Outliers. The book provides an interesting...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Car
A squid art car. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G's Listening and Response Post
In AdAge: Many companies do this, but the details are interesting here. Create a near real time interaction with flows of data. Visualize and mine it to make...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Intelligence Symposium
UPDATE: I have now seen the list pf participants, and this will be an exciting and informative local meeting about the topic. Meet a number of local practitioners...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Acoustic Barcodes
A European colleague sends this piece about acoustic bar codes. It is a hack, but I like the idea of being able to interact with packaging or display via a touch...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
My Brief Visit to E-Learn
I went to Montreal on Wednesday to present my work on what makes augmented reality good for learning (and in general, really). The conference was the World Conference...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
My Thing About The “Thing” Movies
A geometric puzzle based on the Thing movies James Arness was not a scientist, but was an actor who is best known for having played Marshall Dillon in the long-running...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
HS Computer Science Honor Society Survey
There has been talk about a high school computer science honor society among the high school CS education community for years. For the most part it hasn’t gotten...
From Wild WebMink
CDB has 0% citizen support
My Freedom of Information request for the summary of citizen input on the UK’s Communications Data Bill reveals unanimous opposition, as well as a disturbing trend...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented Reality Shopping
An example of augmented reality shopping by Junaio in Cover magazine. A physical publication. See it and try it here on Facebook. An early example of advanced...
From The Eponymous Pickle
60 Years of a Barcode Patent
I was just reminded that it has been about 60 years since the patenting of the bar code. See this BBC article. Today we think of it as a very humble thing, but...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Looking at Recommender Systems
IEEE deconstructs and compares recommender systems. " ... By now, online shoppers are accustomed to getting personalized suggestions from the sites they visit...
From Computer Science Teachers Association