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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 Schneier on Security
How to Open a Padlock with a Coke Can
A nice tutorial on making and using shims to open padlocks.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Compressing document-oriented databases by rewriting your documents
The space utilization of relational databases can be estimated quickly. If you create a table made of three columns, each containing an integer, you can expect...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Spices at McCormick
Cooking is a strong side interest of mine. I see in MediaPost they describe how the McCormick spice company is trying some new social plays on Facebook. It is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IE Group
Just brought to my attention: " ... IE Group. IEG - The Innovation Enterprise Group shares the knowledge of innovators in Forecasting & Planning through its...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAP and the Cloud
When I was a fellow at the SNCR we saw a presentation by SAP about their planned use of social and Cloud systems. It was an impressive plan for next steps. ComputerWorld...
From Computational Complexity
Romney vs. Aaronson
How are Mitt Romney and Scott Aaronson similar? Different? Similarities: Both live in Massachusetts. Actually, Scott lives there but its not clear where Mitt...
From Schneier on Security
Plasmonics Anti-Counterfeiting Technology
This could be interesting: NOtES exploits an obscure area of physics to accomplish its bright and sharp display, known as plasmonics. Light waves interact with...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Collaboration at the Mayo Clinic
Collaborative Innovation at Mayo. This is exactly the kind of thing I have been thinking about for some time. What is different from most kinds of innovation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fashion, Style, Deals: Stylezen
A new site I have been pointed to: Stylezen. More to follow. Style is a good thing to link to on the Web.
From My Biased Coin
Congratulations to Hanspeter Pfister
Despite our really very good track record for the last decade or so, there are some people out there who remain under the misimpression that it's impossible toHanspeter...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
STEM and Humanities: It Isn't Either-Or
I think of STEM and humanities as being the bookends of a quality education. Everyone needs exposure to and experience with both, or their education is incomplete...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Entity Web
Matthew Hurst on competencies in the entity Web. A look at the future of this thing we loosely call the Web and what it will take to interact with it.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Making Memories and Applying them
Repeating and updating this post because I think there is considerable value in the application of Associative memory systems. I had the opportunity to read a...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future Look
A slide show look at the near future by Phil McKinney of HP: " ... the future impact will be in 2020 to: social dynamics, personal entertainment, intelligent...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Disruptions in Retail
We will continue to see additional changes based on technology. Ne prepared in engagement proposals. As the article suggests, the gold will be in the data.
From The Noisy Channel
HCIR 2011: Now on YouTube!
The Fifth Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval (HCIR 2011), held on October 20th at Google’s main campus in Mountain View, California...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Season
It's squid season off the coast of Southern California. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't...
From Schneier on Security