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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 Noisy Channel
CIKM 2011 Industry Event: Stephen Robertson on Why Recall Matters
On October 27th, I had the pleasure to chair the CIKM 2011 Industry Event with former Endeca colleague Tony Russell-Rose. It is my pleasure to report that the program...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Where does debt, credit and currencies come from?
We often believe that primitive cultures lacked currencies and so they engaged in barter. Barter is awfully inconvenient and simply cannot sustain a non-trivial...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of November 14
November 15 Hearing: The Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security of the House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on cybersecurity. 10 a.m.,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cloud Robotics
In the CACM: Had not previously heard about cloud robotics. " ... Their eventual goal, they say, is to enable robots to perform data-intensive functions
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kyield: Management of Knowledge Offer
Mark Montgomery wrote:Greetings,We are planning the development of our patented enterprise platform beginning in early 2012 and so we are seeking well-matched organizations...
From Computational Complexity
Penn State
Take the state of Pennsylvania and draw the two diagonals. Where they cross is the small town of State College, home of the Pennsylvania State University. I first...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Super Hydophobic Coatings
This is related to an R&D project I was involved in: superhydrophobic coatings. Quite a few interesting applications in industry and with consumer products.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Genetics Helping Analytics
I am examining Business Genetics. " ... BusinessGenetics provides your business with a set of tools and resources that enable you to develop a complete set of...
From Schneier on Security
Remotely Opening Prison Doors
This seems like a bad vulnerability: Researchers have demonstrated a vulnerability in the computer systems used to control facilities at federal prisons that could...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 14 November 2011
I spent a lot of time watching the Twitter feed and reading blog posts about the Microsoft Global Forum last week. And some watching the Grace Hopper Celebration...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Acoustic Ruler
An interesting iOS App that lets you measure distances using acoustical measurements. Claims a range up to 25 meters, with resolution between 1 cm and 1 mm. More...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ipsos on Digital Marketing and Social Networks
Fairly obvious results, Ipsos does some analysis. Survey on Digital Marketing Reveals Increased Focus on Social Media, Mobile, Search and Email
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Science As Cross Curricula
Initially I was going to write about how well computer science related projects did at the recent Microsoft Partners in Learning Global Forum. After all Louis Zulli...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Risk Mangement and Lean Six-Sigma
IEEE article : " ...For engineers involved with quality, it is a natural evolution to incorporate risk management in their work. There is an increased awareness...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intel Predicting the Future
How Intel is using soft sciences to predict the future. Though I come from the world of the hard scientists, I agree that this is useful. In particular combining...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Selling: Query Time and Choices
Via correspondent Herb Sorensen: Closing the sale, query time and choices:" ... Among the teachings of Joe Girard, identified by The Guinness Book of World Records...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 13 November 2011
I spent a lot of time watching the Twitter feed and reading blog posts about the Microsoft Global Forum last week. And some watching the Grace Hopper Celebration...
From Wild WebMink
Ending Aggregation
I think it’s time for the aggregator on webmink.net to be closed down. I plan to redirect from there to here starting next week. If you think this would be a bad...
From The Eponymous Pickle