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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 Putting People First
The existential challenges of human-robot interaction
How will we react when a loyal humanoid robot that has served us for years suddenly fails? Will we genuinely grieve for no-longer working bots that have accompanied...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Procrastination
In the HBR Blog: What it is and how to stop it. My experience is that everyone has it and is always looking for ways to do more of it. Today with devices aplenty...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Uses Local Messaging
In ADAge: An interesting and potentially historical shift: " ... Walmart is launching a Facebook app that customizes marketing for each of its nearly 3,600 U...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Five Healthcare Robotics Ideas to Appear in First RoboBowl
Later this week,
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Southern Interactive Entertainment & Game Expo 2011
Last week I attended part of SIEGE 2011 (Southern Interactive Entertainment & Game Expo) in Atlanta Georgia. Before the main part of the conference started the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Package Scanning by Pepsi
Another good example of the use of QR codes on packaging:" ... New Pepsi cans and bottles for The X Factor campaign are now appearing in stores. Three-hundred million...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Why aren
Bankers will tell you that to get rich, you should rely on compound interests. Save up a little bit of everything you earn, and you will soon be wealthy. What they...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Post Work World
Are we heading for a post-work world? Are the robots or their kin taking over? Asks the Transparency Revolution. " ... Specifically, what if post-industrial society...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovation as a Day Job
A good post in Innovation Excellence by Jeffrey Phillips. I used to have innovation as my day job. It was expected as a means to support the work in the innovation...
From Computational Complexity
More than East and West
The Obama Campaign is creating a Campaign Analytics Team. Love Data, Predictive Analytics, Social Media and Politics? The Analytics team for the Obama Campaign...
From My Biased Coin
Reading Confidence Men
My current spare time reading* is Confidence Men, Ron Suskind's book on Wall Street and the Presidency. Without "taking sides" with regard to Larry Summers, IMockingjay...
From Schneier on Security
U.S. Drones Have a Computer Virus
You'd think we would be more careful than this: A computer virus has infected the cockpits of America
From The Eponymous Pickle
Training Bacteria to Grow Consumer Goods
An approach I had not heard of before. This looks to be still in the very early stages of usefulness. The use of the term 'provocation' here as opposed to theIDEO...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 10 October 2011
Last week the computing industry lost one of its great innovators in Steve Jobs. It
From Michael Nielsen
Reinventing Discovery
I’m very excited to say that my new book, “Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science”, has just been released! As regular readers of this blog know...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Viewing Assortment Optimization Through Shopper Decision Trees
I was asked to take a look at DemandTec's new site and provide some commentary on the redesign and their approaches. I went quickly to assortment choices and "...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Whats Holding You Back?
Mark Montgomery of Kyield posts a good review of Robert Herbold's new book: Whats Holding You Back? Herbold is the former Chief Operating Officer of Microsoft...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Vision Improving App
A smartphone App that improves vision. No review on its practicality. " .... Polat's software trains users to detect patterns called Gabor patches - blurry...
From The Eponymous Pickle