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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
More About the Future of Retail
A good piece by Greg Satell in Innovation Excellence on the Future of Retail. Always an important topic here. Can we completely reinvent the retail process in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tibco Social Platform
I admit to having been unaware of the Tibco social platform, Tibbr . I was involved with the enterprise rollout of their Spotfire data visualization package, which...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Artisan Videos
Link to some fascinating artisan videos. Just videos of people who are very skilled in what they do, doing it very well. As the post says, hard not to watch....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Evolution of QR Codes
Report on the use of QR codes and the rapid changes in their effective use. They evolve along with the increased us of smartphones. I was at a local Panera today...
From My Biased Coin
A Good Problem to Have
Last year's enrollment for CS 124 was 53. So far, current enrollment for this year: 119. I imagine a few are still just taking a look and might drop. But a doubling...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Whats Wrong with the Internet?
In the CACM. Bufferbloat: Whats wrong with the Internet. A Group discussion with Vint Cerf, Van Jacobsen, Nick Weaver and Jim Gettys. Good thoughts.Where do...
From Wild WebMink
Mozilla peut-elle apporter l
La nouvelle licence open-source de Mozilla est bien plus qu
From The Eponymous Pickle
SFI and Big Data at Davos
Interesting piece about SFI and the leverage of big data. I am skeptical, it is about leveraging the data, regardless of size or complexity.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cisco Simplifying Interfaces
A really good idea. We worked with Cisco from the early days of their looking at advanced collaboration. it is good to see them thinking a simplified and unified...
From Geeking with Greg
More quick links
More of what has caught my attention lately:Laptops with Kinect sensors are coming. Worth paying attention to, gesturing in air to issue commands, a very different...
From Wild WebMink
Insecurity By Obscurity
I was so shocked by the way Symantec has left its customers to twist in the wind for five years I had to write down some serious questions about their
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Citogenesis in science and the importance of real problems
Many papers in Computer Science tell the following story: There is a pre-existing problem P. There are few relatively simple but effective solution to problem P...
From The Eponymous Pickle
3D Printing and Virtual Reality
In MIT Technology Review: When I first read the title of this article I thought: Well yes, they are very different. One provides interaction in a digital space...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lead With a Story:Storytelling in the Enterprise
A former colleague Paul Smith, is coming out with a book on storytelling in the enterprise. " ... Paul Smith is director of Consumer & Communications Research...
From Computational Complexity
Guest post on ITCS by Chazelle
(Requested announcement: Calling all Women PhD Students (and a few undergrads) We will be having our bi-annual Women in Theory (WIT) Workshop this year in Princeton...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
DARPA Seeking to Develop a
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is out this month with a broad agency announcement soliciting “innovation research proposals in support of...
From Schneier on Security
Password Sharing Among American Teenagers
Interesting article from the New York Times on password sharing as a show of affection. "It's a sign of trust," Tiffany Carandang, a high school senior in Sandiscusses...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visualization Resources
Good post on visualization resources: " ... This is the fourth part of a multi-part series designed to share with readers an inspiring collection of the most important...
From The Eponymous Pickle