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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
Analyzing your Facebook
It has been some time since I looked at Wolfram Alpha. Its a system that lets you integrate multiple forms of data and semantic interaction to solve problems,An...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 3 September 2012
Happy Labor Day! Today is commonly thought of as the last day of summer in the US. Few if any schools in the US will start (with students) later than tomorrow. ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Recognizing Real World Objects in Videos
In Slashdot: Discussion of a Google patent for this. It is a fundamental exercise for applications like autonomous robotics to be able to understand their world...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More on Wal-Mart Search
In CIO Today: Deeper understanding of semantics in content proves to be a valuable lever. " ... Dubbed Polaris, Walmart's search tech seems to be working well...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smarter Commerce Summit
Doing an invited appearance at the Smarter Commerce Summit this coming week in Orlando, September 5-7. Blogging and tweeting the experience. If there is anything...
From My Biased Coin
Uncertainty
There's an interesting new article on the Gov 1310 case* on the Crimson yesterday, titled Students Accused in Cheating Scandal Frustrated by Uncertain Process....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Agile Analytics
Was recently pointed to Birst Analytics. Agile as presented is a good idea. Looking forward to taking a closer look. See their blog for a taste of what they...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robot Learns to Recognize Itself
New developments in robotics, especially those that can understand and react to their own context, is always of interest.
From Putting People First
Focus on service design – in UK and in Italy
Earlier this year, the UK Design Council and the Arts & Humanities Research Council conducted a wide ranging review of the place of design research in UK universities...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Don’t Panic
The other day I was looking through the analytics for this blog to see what sort of searches people were doing that let them here. Mostly I was seeing things IThe...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Product Portfolio Management at Hallmark
From CGT: A simple example of portfolio management strategies." ... There are many reasons why your company can't afford to miss product launch windows. So, how...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Public vs Private Clouds
In GigaOm: A good comparison between the choice of Public vs Private Cloud in corporate IT. Which companies should use which? " ... Cloud computing is supposed...
From Putting People First
John Payne on his Occupy Wall Street ethnography
A few weeks ago, Tricia Wang asked John Payne, a principal of Moment, to write a guest post on Ethnography Matters about his ethnographic field work on Occupy Wall...
From Putting People First
Perception Strategy: The Emotional Side of User Experience
The way we interact and respond to information depends on many things: our goals about what we want to do with that information, the nature of the information,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Zoo Analytics
A local zoo and spin off consultancy makes a point of the value of business intelligence applications. First I had heard of this specifically addressed in an article...
From Wild WebMink
London Thrill Ride
Seems the fairground is now a London fixture. Walking back across Waterloo Bridge at the end of our last holiday break of the summer, we saw that the London Eye...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM and Social Analytics : Kenexa
This is quite a buy. We took a look at IBM's offerings in social technology nearly a decade ago. Their early efforts included intelligent directories that could...
From My Biased Coin
Honor Codes?
A further interesting question that has come out of the as-of-yet alleged cheating scandal at Harvard is whether Harvard should have an honor code. The question...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: "The Seasick Squid"
A fable. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP