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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 Michael Nielsen
Book tour
Click through for event details. I’ve included a few private events at organizations where it’s possible some readers work. The Tech Museum (Bay Area) November...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neuromarketing Still Raises Questions
Good thoughts in the AdAge Blog: Which pushes the Neurostandards Collaboration Project. Only some 20% of advertising succeeds. Everyone wants to understand non...
From Wild WebMink
? Eddi Reader this Thursday
I just picked up tickets to go see Eddi Reader in Southampton this Thursday, November 3rd. You may remember her as the heart of the band Fairground Attraction back...
From The Eponymous Pickle
George Dyson on Innovation and Decisions
Walter Riker sends along a link. An interview with technology historian and philospher George Dyson on evolution and innovation. " ... Dyson: I think that we...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Have an Augmented Sundae at McDonalds
In the Junaio blog: The use of augmented reality on a smartphone for merchandising in fast food. " ... McDonald
From Michael Nielsen
(Some) garbage in, gold out
During a recent talk David Weinberger asked me (paraphrasing) whether and how the nature of scientific knowledge will change when it’s produced by large networked...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Intelligence and Social Networking
New models using social networking. In Information Management. While I agree that social netoworking can be useful in delivering and managing BI work, I think...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Designing Drugs with Augmented Reality
From Fastcodesign: How 3-D Printing And Augmented Reality Can Help Design Better Drugs. Clever idea, The idea of using the third dimension to augment design...
From Computational Complexity
The Digital Random Bit Generator
I started this month asking about the nature of randomness and how we generate it for our computers. Let me end the month talking about Intel's clever new digital...
From Schneier on Security
Another ATM Theft Tactic
This brazen tactic is from Malaysia. Robbers sabotage the machines, and then report the damage to the bank. When the banks send repair technicians to open and...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Pinpointing Anomalies in Complex Financial Data
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links Post 31 October 2011
Busy week last week. You may have read about my two days in Atlantic City (Kinect-ing at the NJSBA Annual Workshop). Real work. Enjoyable work but none the less...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links Post 31 October 2011
Busy week last week. You may have read about my two days in Atlantic City (Kinect-ing at the NJSBA Annual Workshop). Real work. Enjoyable work but none the less...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Breakthrough Innovations in Technology
Fairly well known. A good reminder of some hot areas. In particular the medical records area.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Royal Society Opens Archives
Just announced. " .... The Royal Society has today announced that its world-famous historical journal archive
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