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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
Tablets as Ecosystems
In E-Commerce Times: With multiple affordable tablet systems starting to emerge, it is suggested that each will enable specific ecosystems of usage and product...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Future of Work Spaces
As part of our innovation centers we examined a number of work space design approaches. We participated in several innovation workshops about working environments...
From Schneier on Security
Detecting Psychopaths by their Speech Patterns
Interesting: The researchers interviewed 52 convicted murderers, 14 of them ranked as psychopaths according to the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised, a 20-item assessment...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tesco Experiments with Augmented Reality
Constructing 3D catalogs using Augmented Reality. We saw some early experimentation by Tesco in China. Tesco has always been a technology innovative retailer...
From My Biased Coin
Public University Budgets
Another topic that arose in conversations during my visit to Wisconsin was the issue of budgets, and in particular the large-scale cuts that many of the best US...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Why Can't SIRI talk to Watson?
Thoughtful GigaOm piece on AI. I spent years doing enterprise AI and what we did only worked when it was focused. We saw what IBM was doing at that time and it...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Exascale Computing Looms
From the supercomputing conference. Thousand times improvement in a decade. " ... Government support, as well as new computing techniques, will be needed ....
From Schneier on Security
Paul Kocher
Really nice article on crypotographer Paul Kocher and his company, Cryptography Research, Inc.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
What the DARPA Network Challenge Showed
As we’ve previously noted in this space, in December 2009, 10 red balloons were deployed from locations throughout the U.S. as part of the DARPA Network Challenge...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Network Patterns of Complexity
Stephen Few reviews Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information, by Manuel Lima. This book is about mapping networks of information. This has always been...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
C# Mini Course
So this is an experiment of sorts. Last summer I was asked to train some college students in C#. The goal was to get them ready to teach some very basic programming...
From The Noisy Channel
CIKM 2011 Industry Event: Jeff Hammerbacher on Experiences Evolving a New Analytical Platform
This post is part of a series summarizing the presentations at
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Sports a Mobile Game
P&G's Downy plans a mobile scavenger hunt. An example of brand oriented marketing gamificatition." ... Procter & Gamble fabric softener brand Downy will hold a...
From Computational Complexity
Are these journals real?
Consider the following email I got: Dear Professor, 1. Antarctica Journal of Mathematics 2. ArchimedesJournal of Mathematics 3. BesselJournal of Mathematics...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google and Temporal Data
Have been taking a look at a number aspects of time-based data in search, and also in the semantic elements of search results. Here an article that looks at...
From Schneier on Security
Sam Harris on Self-Defense
I thought this was very interesting. His three principles are: Avoid dangerous people and dangerous places. Do not defend your property. Respond immediately and...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Computers Shouldn't Make Sandwiches
This past weekend, I had the pleasure of attending the CSTA/Anita Borg K-12 Equity Teacher Workshop at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Distributed Data Analytics Platform
I have been examining a number of advanced data mining solutions. And InferX has come up again. In particular distributing the platform:" ... The InferX Distributed...
From Wild WebMink