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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
Managing Brand and Corporate Reputation
A conversation reminded me again of the company Neputation, who's technical people I had the chance to talk to recently. Impressive methods being used to address...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Air Force Social Radar
The idea of air force social radar sounds much like neuromarketing efforts underway today, but some more seriousness involved. Reading minds all the way down...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Surgical Robots, Sensor Wristbands Advancing Health, Energy
Over the last year, we’ve described many opportunities at the intersection of computing and healthcare as well as computing and sustainability — and there are a...
From Schneier on Security
Using False Alarms to Disable Security
I wrote about this technique in Beyond Fear: Beginning Sunday evening, the robbers intentionally set off the gallery's alarm system several times without entering...
From Wild WebMink
SOPA, PIPA and Open Source
SOPA and PIPA, the poorly conceived draft legislation currently being considered in the USA, sparked a worldwide protest yesterday. I think they would also be bad...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wolfram Educational Portal
The Beta of the Wolfram Educational Portal has been released. Great effort. " ... We are happy to announce the launch of the free Beta version of the Wolfram...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Two New Imagine Cup Challenges for 2012
The Imagine Cup just keeps getting bigger and bigger. Today two more challenges were announced via the Imagine Cup blog (Microsoft Announces Windows Metro Style...
From Wild WebMink
OSI Opposes SOPA and PIPA
I was pleased to be able to send OSI’s sign-on to the civil society letter protesting the bad laws being considered by the US legislature at present. You can read...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cool BI Innovations
In TDWI: Some expected examples that are worth reviewing. I think much more can be said here. Some of the innovations will take considerable evolving to be...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Past and Future
Some notes on AI, Past and Future, in the ACM. Another favorite topic. Most recently I have seen some of the IBM Watson work, which nicely brings expertise based...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Gaming
I continue to be intrigued by the use of game dynamics as part of user engagement. Did a number of related projects in the enterprise: Here some further thoughts...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM Statement on SOPA and PROTECT IP
This week, as opposing views on the Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011 (S. 968, the PROTECT IP...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Disjunctive Mapping of Consumers
From Informs: A presentation on Advances in understanding human behavior: Disjunctive mapping. Exploring further.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gap Analysis
Good post on the topic by the Burghard Group. " ... Gap Analysis is an assessment tool to help a place (community, region, state) compare its current economic...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Consumers Want More Communications from Retailers
Not that much of a surprise, providing the communication is truly useful. " ... according to the IBM Institute for Business Value 2011 Retail Industry Study, released...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Marketing via a Virtual Pinboard
A simple and clever approach. Using a virtual pinboard metaphor to market and promote a site. The enabling site is called Pinterest, which I had not heard of...
From Computational Complexity
How important are the Fib numbers in math? in Nature? In History of Math books?
The following quotes is from In the book Algebra in Ancient and Modern Times by V.S. Varadarajan. Fibonacci numbers thus grow very fast with N, indeed in geometric...
From Apophenia
We need to talk about piracy (but we must stop SOPA first)
Much to my happiness, the internets are in a frenzy about the “Stop Online Piracy Act” (aka SOPA). Congress is currently in recess, but the House announced a hearing...
From The Eponymous Pickle