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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
From mass consumerism to mass change: Hope for sustainable consumption
In an article for Shareable, Caren Holzman presents trends that signal “a reversal in the way that consumers value and use products and services”: “A global culture...
From Putting People First
Invigorating education with technology
Techcrunch reports on a recent set of rapid-fire presentations from Imagine K12, an incubator for education-related startups. On the one hand, the innovation taking...
From Putting People First
The end of motoring
Highly recommended read in The Guardian on the end of the golden age of motoring (or for non-Brits: car travel): “The most radical change [according to German entrepreneur...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Interdisciplinary Computing
Lisa C. Kaczmarczyk writes the Interdisciplinary computing blog. I have mentioned this effort before, but have just revisited it before meeting with her. The...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Data Mining for Global Change: Furthering Science, Knowledge
The following is a special contribution to this blog by Karsten
From The Eponymous Pickle
My Apps Floweth Over
I have noticed it happen. Every possible publication, newsletter, alert, actual application, search notification, political group, neighborhood group, conference...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data Analytics
TDWI report on big data analytics. " ... Big data analytics is the intersection of two technical entities that have come together. First, there
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brandwashed Review
Good balanced review of Martin Lindstrom's just published Brandwashed book. Emphasizes Lindstrom's insider view of the marketing world. I have mentioned his book here...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Launching a New Product on Facebook
In Mashable: Good piece on using Facebook commercially. I have my doubts that it has a great influence specifically in new product launches. But where ever...
From The Eponymous Pickle
ZuluTime and Shopper Location
More on what the location based interaction innovator Zulutime is doing in retail. I am continuing to follow their work and will post my findings here. " ....
From Computational Complexity
Moneyball
I saw Moneyball over the weekend. This movie gives a fictionalized account of the how the general manager of the 2002 Oakland A's used the right kind of statistics...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Two 32-bit hash functions from a 64-bit hash function?
A few years ago, we worked on automatically removing boilerplate text from e-books taken from the Project Gutenberg. In this type of problem, you want to quickly...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of September 26
Budget issues should dominate what little time Congress intends to spend in town this week. September 26 Hearing: The House Science, Space and Technology Committee...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF
The following is a special contribution to this blog by Krishna Kant, a Program Director in the Division of Computer and Network Systems (CNS)
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 26 September 2011
Autumn has technically arrived in New Hampshire. The leafs are starting to turn but the weather has stayed a bit unseasonably warm. Even still school is in full...
From Schneier on Security
Tor Arms Race
Iran blocks Tor, and Tor releases a workaround on the same day. How did the filter work technically? Tor tries to make its traffic look like a web browser talking...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Accent Monitoring
Some interesting disparate takes on accent neutralization efforts. Having been involved in several content analysis projects, this strikes very true. Different...
From The Eponymous Pickle
When a Market Fails
Useful thoughts here: Behavioral economist Dan Ariely discusses in a video chapter 8 from his excellent book: Upside of Irrationality. When a Market Fails: An...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Super Wi-Fi
In Technology Review: Will it live up to the expectations of increased range and capacity?
From The Eponymous Pickle