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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
Floating Cities
Mark J Perry points us to markets in floating cities. And the Seasteading Institute. Floating pioneer cities for everyone. Designed to inspire communities around...
From Wild WebMink
? LibreOffice Video
Loved this new video that introduces LibreOffice in an easy and understandable way. It would be great to have some more LibreOffice videos like this and I know...
From The Eponymous Pickle
CMapTools
On concept maps, which were much used in the enterprise: " ... Concept maps are graphical tools for organizing and representing knowledge. They include concepts...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Informs Business Analytics
I see that several former colleagues of mine are speaking at the upcoming Informs Business Analytics conference. (April 15-17, Huntington Beach, CA) Check outInforms...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Accenture Tech Vision
A general but well put view of our tech technical future by Accenture." ...This next revolution will differ from previous disruptions. This time, technology is...
From Writing
Got slow download but fast upload speeds over wireless? Here's a fix.
If you find that your wireless download speeds are abysmal while your uploads speeds are pretty solid, especially with Apple devices, I've got a possible solution...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Braille-Like Texting Using One Finger Gestures
A prototype App developed at Ga Tech to allow texting via a touch screen. Includes video." Georgia Tech researchers have designed a texting solution that could...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Target Analytics: Bridging the Uncanny Valley
Predictive analytics at Target. Target can tell you about some intimate health details of the purchasers of goods in its stores and reveals it knows this information...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data a Magnet for Startups
In CNet: " ... Armies of entrepreneurs are trying to make money sifting through mountains of data from the Web and other sources, but one of the biggest challenges...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF/CISE Holding CAREER Proposal Writing Workshops
The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) has announced that it will hold two workshops later...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Launches Childrens Safe Drinking Water Facebook Site
As reported in on the P&G Alumni site. Connect here. " ... We are pleased to announce that the P&G Alumni Network has a complimentary, additional way to raise...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apps as Smartphone Spyware
Good piece on the ACM outlining how many smartphone Apps are spyware. Disappointing that this is not revealed upfront. Is it part of what we should expect for...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Desk Lamp
Beautiful sculpture. 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
Pharmacy on a Chip
In ComputerWorld:' ... Researchers at MIT have developed what they're hoping will be something of a pharmacy on a chip. Scientists have developed a wirelessly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Twitter Ad Platform
Will this significantly alter the environment of Twitter? In AdAge:" ... Twitter is rolling out the self-serve ad platform it's been testing to 10,000 small and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brands American Women and Men Desire Most
In Forbes: From a study by Buyology Inc, a former collaboration of mine:" ... According to the second-annual study just released by Buyology, a strategic neuromarketing...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Bitmaps are surprisingly efficient
Imagine you have to copy an array, and update a few values in the process. What is the most efficient way implementation? Let us look at a concrete example. I am...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Book Bundling
David Carr on book bundling. An interesting case of combining digital and physical content together. Not much different than providing a site for a book to...
From The Eponymous Pickle