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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
Petabytes and PetaFlops
In ComputerWorld: Word of new examples really big data, and at the same time using really fast computers to examine that data at the NCSA. New challenges are emerging...
From Putting People First
Experientia concept video for a sustainable trade fair centre
The Event project for Kortrijk Xpo, Belgium, developed concepts for how to make trade fairs and temporary events more sustainable. Experientia
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predictive Analytics and Medicaid Fraud
A good example of using predictive analytics with medical data. Here with billing data: " ... "The beauty of this system is that it recognizes patterns of billing...
From Schneier on Security
My Last Post About Ethnic Profiling at Airports
Remember my rebuttal of Sam Harris's essay advocating the profiling of Muslims at airports? That wasn't the end of it. Harris and I conducted a back-and-forth...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Turn any Wall into a Touchscreen
Gestural Surfaces. A look at the Ubi Interactive use of Microsoft Kinect for touchscreen construction. Are we ready for the broader applications of gestures in...
From Wild WebMink
Contrasts in Amsterdam
Reblogged from The Global Mink: Nesting, a photo by webmink on Flickr. I spent a half-day walking around the centre of Amsterdam following a speaking engagement...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Finance from Wolfram
And a finance platform from Wolfram Research. Perhaps an unlikely connection but the possibilities are good. I like the process-workflow connection; " .....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simplicity Isn't Simple
Isn't it? An interview with Apple design chief. " ... "Designing and developing anything of consequence is incredibly challenging," says Ive. "Our goal is to...
From My Biased Coin
CS 124 -- Some Student Comments
Overall, I feel I've had a very successful year, but I do have to admit: my undergraduate class, CS 124, could have been better this spring. I wasn't prepared...
From Wild WebMink
Open Source Market Matures
My article for InfoWorld this week considers the annual Open Source Survey, unveiled at OSBC in San Francisco, and observes that the market is trending towards...
From The Eponymous Pickle
National Retail Data Monitor
Colleague Mike Robinson of Laverdad Marketing reminded me of an effort we were involved in: The National Retail Data Monitor. Which is designed to detect pharma...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Text Analytics and the Value of the Unstructured
In Information Management: Bottom line is that unstructured data is important. Unstructured is also more than just text, images and video are becoming increasingly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simple Charts Tell a Story
In Flowingdata.. An illustration of my favorite precept, that simple is better. It is true that visualizaton can make very complex things appear simpler. But...
From Putting People First
The Smartphone Psychology Manifesto
In Perspectives on Psychological Science (May 2012 vol. 7), Geoffrey Miller publishes a “Smartphone Psychology Manifesto” with methodological suggestions for the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data and Health Care
An interesting example using the case of sleep apnea contributing to car accidents.
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Wins Effie
P&G tops the list of the ten most effective advertisers. " ... IBM and Microsoft, tied with EA, come in at No. 2 and No. 3, respectively.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intuit Using Big Data to Delight You
In GigaOM: Some months back I gave a talk at Intuit on the leveraging of data resources. This is not an outcome of that, but an intriguing direction that they...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Ink from the Jurassic
Seems that squid ink hasn't changed much in 160 million years. From this, researchers argue that the security mechanism of spraying ink into the water and escaping...
From The Eponymous Pickle