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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
Testing the Kroger PAL System
In aisle checkout with Kroger PAL. We tested extensively the concept of shoppers using devices like this in the retail innovation center. Providing new kinds...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Fishing in Ulleungdo, Korea
The industry is in decline: A generation ago, most of the island's 10,000 residents worked in the squid industry, either as sellers like Kim or as farmer-fishermen...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Forecasting Hurricane Irene
Despite some slight weakening over the last few hours, Hurricane Irene is being called the “storm of a lifetime” — on its current path, it will affect over 65 million...
From Schneier on Security
Preventing the Theft of Wire Cutters
This is a picture of a pair of wire cutters secured to a table with a wire. Someone isn't thinking this through....
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CISE Names Deputy Assistant Director
The NSF’s CISE Directorate today announced
From Wild WebMink
? The Entrepreneur
Following on from my Road To (Software) Freedom posting, I’ve written today about why I think the need for contributor agreements is a matter of choice and not...
From Schneier on Security
The Problem with Using the Cold War Metaphor to Describe Cyberspace Risks
Nice essay on the problems with talking about cyberspace risks using "Cold War" metaphors: The problem with threat inflation and misapplied history is that there...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On High Performance Analytics
SAS Voice on high performance analytics. " ... The promise of high-performance analytics, as I understand it, is this: Regardless of how you store your data or...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Encouraging Entrepreneurial Spirit
Hubspot as a case study in getting people excited about their jobs. " ... Everyone talks about wanting entrepreneurial employees. At HubSpot, a marketing software...
From Wild WebMink
? Classifications
Court Ruling Opens The Door To Rejecting Many Software Patents As Being Mere ‘Mental Processes’ The incremental adjustment of software patent law in the USA continues...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Cognitive Computing
Still skeptical about how close this is, but have recently seen some hints of it approaching: In the CACM: Cognitive Computing: Unite neuroscience, supercomputing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Technology Frustration
We all experience multi-device frustrations. Everything is somewhat different, does not work exactly as we expect, work together with other devices, and over time...
From Schneier on Security
Terrorism in the U.S. Since 9/11
John Mueller and his students analyze the 33 cases of attempted terrorism in the U.S. since 9/11. So few of them are actually real, and so many of them were created...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
2011 NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing
Calling all digital divas, web chix & coder girls! It’s time to start thinking about the NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing. This is a great program which...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Search that Includes What You Know
I recall this idea brought up often in the enterprise. A person, or an enterprise, already knows many things. The problem is that 'it' does not know what it...
From Schneier on Security
Funniest Joke at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Nick Helm won an award for the funniest joke at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival: Nick Helm: "I needed a password with eight characters so I picked Snow White and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Using Facial Recognition to Tailor Advertising
The basic idea has been around for some time. Recognize people's faces via a camera facing outward on a sign and then adapt the promotional interaction basedNow...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nike Data Visualization Ad
An intriguing Nike visualization ad I had not seen before. " ... A new ad created by Nike might lead the way in marketers using their data in entirely an entirely...
From The Eponymous Pickle
When and if Algorithms Rule the World
I like the fact that algorithms, a mysterious term to many, is being brought up more today. Here is another example in a BBC article. Like all tools they need...
From Schneier on Security