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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 Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 24 October 2011
I am constantly amazed by the opportunities to learn things online by virtual attendance at events these days. In the past week I listened to a keynote (Live streamed)...
From Schneier on Security
Facebook Patent to Track Users Even When They are Not Logged In to Facebook
Patent number 2,011,023,240: Communicating Information in a Social Network System about Activities from Another Domain Abstract: In one embodiment, a method...
From Wild WebMink
Modern Hero Revisited
About a decade ago I started a “spool” of the comments I had been making on my personal website (which had been running since the late 90s – I actually started...
From Wild WebMink
In Sunlight
Today has been a beautiful day in Paris, spent walking and talking in the brilliant autumnal sunlight with dear and charming friends – which has been the theme...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Decision Management Systems: Rules and Analytics
Business Rules and Predictive analytics from SAP. Link to an excerpt from a forthcoming book that I am looking at now. This topic has been much in my mind of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Patents Emerge As Significant Tech Strategy
I have see some evidence of this recently. Even among the smaller players. Good review of recent big company patent related events ... " ... Several experts say...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deploying Cloud Computing
On deploying cloud computing. I had always thought this was easy, just point to other places for your data and services. But it is not really quite that simple...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How Database Design Fails Us, and What to do About It
Good database design is crucial to obtain a sound, consistent database, and — in turn — good database design methodologies are the best way to achieve the right...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lateral Marketing
Philip Kotler speaks about Lateral Marketing. In Innovation Excellence. Good thoughts.
From The Eponymous Pickle
KDDI and Neurosky
A dry-electroode NeuroSky headset and Android App from KDDI that measures your brainwaves. Accurate and useful for marketing? Analyzing the brains of soccercontrol...
From The Eponymous Pickle
CFO's and the Supply Chain
Have never thought of it in this way, but its a useful thought. In CFO mag:"Supply chain and finance are usually seen as separate and conflicting disciplines....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Shares About Social and Technology
If is fairly rare to see Wal-Mart in such an outspoken mood, but they were at the recent ANA conference regarding their marketing and technology directions. They...
From My Biased Coin
ITCS Review
The list of accepted papers for ITCS (Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science) is up. Some thoughts:1) I have expressed reservations in the past about ITCS...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data for the Future
From Recorded Future's blog a new white paper that describes their philosophy: " .... The white paper introduces the three dimensions
From The Eponymous Pickle
Valuing the Future
This makes me think about it's application in packages like Recorded Future. Though I have been taught that economic valuation is full of uncertainty, dismal science...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Portals, Passwords, and Cloud Computing
Several of the Computer Science teachers in one district have established a portal which uses a "cloud concept" to provide information for parents of students in...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
More Access to the ACM Digital Library
One of the great resources available on the Internet is the ACM Digital Library. One of the problems for many is that access to this library is not free. I am...
From The Eponymous Pickle