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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
Recorded Future Looking Forward
I just had the opportunity in preparation for some talks and predictive analytics work to look once again at the 'temporal search engine' Recorded Future. Happy...
From Computational Complexity
My response to the Gasarch P vs NP poll
A while back GASARCH solicited responses to a P vs NP poll and gave Oct 31 as the deadline. Now that the deadline is passed I post my answers. Does P=NP? IIf...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Practical not Gimmick Bots
The CEO of iRobot, Colin Angle, is questioned about the future of robotics. I agree there has been too much gimmickry delivered. Yet even gimmickry delivers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
WalMart.com Test Stores
Had not heard of this in particular. We also experimented with small experimental stores in Malls and college towns, among other places. Good places to collect...
From The Eponymous Pickle
ARF Draft Neurostandards Paper
Sand Research passes this along: Advertising Research Foundation Releases Draft Neurostandards White Paper. "deep understanding - not available through traditional...
From Schneier on Security
Commentary on Strong Passwords
It turns out that "2bon2btitq" is not a strong password.
From My Biased Coin
CAEC: First Cambridge Area Economics and Computation Day
Giorgos suggested I remind people about CAEC, which will be next week (November 18).Still time to sign up and register.Here's the link.
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Look at Heuristics
A piece in Vanity Fair. Contrary to what they say in the article and imply in the embedded quiz, heuristics are not necessarily wrong. They are rules of thumb...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Does Google Know About You?
Always an interesting subject. You can infer much from the ads you see. ReadwriteWeb discusses the depth and breadth of it.
From The Eponymous Pickle
McKinsey on Big Data
An extensive and thoughtful article:" ... Over time, we believe big data may well become a new type of corporate asset that will cut across business units and function...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reengineering the Business with Analytics
Some useful thoughts from the SASCom Blog. Analytics can be applied to effectively change enterprise process.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Unveils Cross-Cutting Smart Health & Wellbeing Program
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Engineering a 10,000 Year Clock
In IEEE Spectrum: Was exposed to this project when it was started by Danny Hillis and Stewart Brand in 1996. The most forward look project I have ever seen. According...
From Putting People First
Transforming behaviour change
The RSA’s latest report, Transforming Behaviour Change: Beyond Nudge and Neuromania, argues for a more sophisticated understanding of the relationship between our...
From Putting People First
Craftmanship
John Kolko reflects on design education and the importance of craftmanship in an article for Interactions Magazine. “Based on my experience reviewing portfolios...
From Putting People First
GEM, Nokia
Nokia releases a new phone concept – Gem – which “revolutionizes mobile design by turning the entire handset into a touchscreen”. Launched on the 25th anniversary...
From Putting People First
Smarter, better cyborgs
Instead of augmenting reality, we should make technology more aware, argues Christopher Butler in this article for Print Magazine. “Though an initial AR [Augmented...
From Putting People First