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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
Smartphones Have Replaced ...
In Technology Review: What smartphones have replaced. I don't like lists for their own sake but I did notice the mention of a shopping list, which we studied...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nielsen and Watermarks
Engadget reports on a new technology to gather information about local viewing activity via set-top boxes. More information and press release at the link. Particularly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
OODA Loop
Nice piece on the history and implementation of John Boyd's OODA Loop.... The OODA Loop describes how to make decisions and act on them using a four-stage model...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Calling for Papers for Spatial Computing Visioning Workshop
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) has issued a call for participation for an upcoming visioning workshop on spatial computing. Led by Shashi Shekhar (University...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visual Curation and Shopping in Pinterest
In the NYTimes Mag: A breezy look at what has come to be known as 'visual curation' in systems like Pinterest . Asked by a connection to look at the relevance...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Macy's and Shopkick
Macy's promotes mobile shopping for coeds using Shopkick. In their blog. Exclusive deals and rewards for simply walking into one of their 800 US locations. An...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Metadata and the Stroop Effect
The Stroop effect is a clinical test that measures differences in reaction time when you are shown information that confirms or contradicts your own views, conscious...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Is Freemium Done?
In GigaOM: Freemium, the model of providing valuable, but limited in some way services free to attract large numbers of 'eyeballs' with the opportunity to up-sell...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
How Good Is Your Translator?
Using fixed points to measure language translators Franz Ochs is a computer scientist whose main research is on machine translation of natural languages. He got...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google+ Again
Just had need to go back and use Google+ again. Had been noticing a number of things written about its demise. Also this article warning it was not quite dead...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sitting
A piece in the WSJ by the Numbers Guy about a recent study regarding how too much sitting could cause an early death. Well done, a classic correlation vs causation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAS Loves Math
A series in SAS Voices. Which looks at how math is used in industry and at home. And how it relates to business analytics. Great to point out to students who...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Preserved Squid
Science or art? 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 Noisy Channel
Upcoming Conferences: RecSys, HCIR, CIKM
Long-time readers know that I have strong opinions about academic conferences. I find the main value of conferences and workshops to be facilitating face-to-face...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Point-and-Shoot Game Creation
Were you ever the type to pick up a newspaper just so you could complete the crossword puzzle? Apparently this was a point of entry into the paper for many people...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
First GraphLab Workshop on Large-scale Machine Learning
The following is a special contribution to this blog by Carlos Guestrin, who will be joining the faculty of the University of Washington computer science and engineering...
From The Eponymous Pickle
CPG and Eye Tracking
Colleague Herb Sorensen comments on the use of eye tracking by CPG companies in RetailWire. True,this has become common, and more analytical work is needed " ....
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Four Researchers Honored With 2012 Dijkstra Prize
The Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) Special Interest Groups on Algorithms and Computation Theory (SIGACT) and Operating Systems (SIGOPS), together with...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Coursera
Mark Perry points to updates from the Coursera free online college course syndication .... including the mention of one at least from always provocativeDan Ariely...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson