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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
SIRI vs Clippy
I remember taking a close look at Microsoft's Clippy assistant interface as a replacement for some kinds of software support. It actually did a fairly good job...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Decision Support
It is really all about decision support. Beyond that it is about decision process improvement. " ... We struggle with questions on supporting decisions, yetSome...
From Michael Nielsen
Open Access: A Short Summary
I wrote the following essay for one of my favourite online forums, Hacker News, which over the past few months has seen more and more discussion of the issue of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Strategic Planning Smothers Innovation
In Innovation Excellence: A well put caution, it can hamper innovation, but I think there is still value in using strategic planning as an infrastructure for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simulating the Brain
An interesting suggestion that IBM can now simulate 4.5% of the human brain. It is always dangerous to compare brains and computing machines. Still not a...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Executable English
Interacting with databases via English. Semantic interpretation of social media and execution:" .... It could become a next big thing after Twitter and Facebook...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pushing Your Wikipedia Location Information
A nice, simple idea. Push information based on your current location. A simple layer includes information contained in Wikipedia: New Wikipedia Layer on Geoloqi...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Facebook
Facebook has announced a new installment of its
From The Eponymous Pickle
World Changing Games HQ
I missed this when it first came out: Gameful: An HQ for world changing games. Posited, it appears, by game promoter Jane McGonigal. Ideas to use game dynamics...
From Michael Nielsen
Open science in the Wall Street Journal
I have a piece in the Wall Street Journal arguing that publicly funded science should be open science.
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Video of Kid Eating Squid
It's hard to tell if he likes it. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
From Schneier on Security
Full Extent of the Attack that Compromised RSA in March
Brian Kerbs has done the analysis; it's something like 760 companies that were compromised. Among the more interesting names on the list are Abbott Labs, the Alabama...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Curating Conversations with Storify
Just brought to my attention. I examined Storify quickly a while back, but this puts a new spin on using it that is worth examining.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Eliminating the Checkout Line
Not really a self-checkout. And not an item-tagged RFID enabled checkout, which we also tested. But here something completely different. A checkout based onDescribed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retaining Retired Expertise
As we continue to move through the Baby Boomer bubble, companies understand that they are losing key expertise. I looked at this problem for the enterprise, seeking...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Coke Freeestyle Launches
The Coke Freestyle machine is coming to Firehouse Subs. An advance in vending. The link includes a location map.There are several of these in our area and will...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Heathcare Analytics and Intelligence
Healthcare is probably one of the best areas of opportunity to apply these technologies. it is also one of the most complex, requiring the involvement of manyIBM...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Productivity via the Interface
Microsoft presents some views of new interface concepts. Concepts only at this time, but some impressive examples. Towards more productivity.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog