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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
New Science of Retailing
Wharton Prof Marshall Fisher discusses his recently published book: The New Science of Retailing. I have read the book, and have reviewed and mentioned it inKnowledge...
From Schneier on Security
Alarm Geese
A prison in Brazil uses geese as part of its alarm system. There's a long tradition of this. Circa 400 BC, alarm geese alerted a Roman citadel to a Gaul attack...
From The Eponymous Pickle
EZ Face Virtual Mirror
I just posted some questions about implementations of EZ Face Virtual Mirror and got the following response, Thanks! Following your post about the Virtual Mirror...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Maga Design Group
Maga Design Group See their site for interesting examples of their mapping visuals, at the right a visual about supply chain design, they also have an interesting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Appeal of Store Brands Grows
There is a continued growing interest in private label brands. Shoppers see them as lower cost, and retailers as higher profit. And they piggyback off the marketing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tide and Green Dry Cleaning
In the WSJ: With research from Procter & Gamble showing many consumers are not happy with dry cleaning, the company has launched Tide Dry Cleaners stores, which...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
AP, Google To Award
The Associated Press and Google have teamed up to create
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-08-17
SmartOS.org A new operations system distribution emerges from the OpenSolaris/Illumos legacy. An excellent piece of work technically, bringing all the strengths...
From Schneier on Security
Security by Default
Nice essay by Christopher Soghoian on why cell phone and Internet providers need to enable security options by default.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Time To Cut The Cake
I ran across a couple of cool Lego links yesterday. One of was this link to Robots for Everyone: Getting Kids Interested in Programming with Legos which talks about...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Policy Highlights from Communications of the ACM
Below is a list of items with policy relevance from the July issue of Communications of the ACM. As always, much of the material in CACM is premium content, and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovation Excellence Site
Brought to my attention by former colleague Julie Anixter. Innovation Excellence. I have been invited to participate, will cross post and point to interesting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
NFC Technology at the Shelf Edge
Location based ideas at the shelf edge are increasing. Check in and out of your favorite aisle, category, brand. Obvious useful for retail and brand level loyalty...
From Putting People First
Creating human-to-human design
In the ever-changing and expanding world of the web, reaching the end user effectively is paramount in the minds of businesses, writes Stephanie Hamilton on Onextrapixel...
From The Eponymous Pickle
EZFace Mirror Kiosk
I mentioned a test of this idea in a limited number of Wal-Mart stores last year. A Virtual Mirror that allows you to see cosmetics, glasses, etc on your own face...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Stanford AI Course Goes Online
Today’s New York Times reports on a Stanford AI course that will be available online and has already attracted nearly 60,000 students.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kraft Using Emotional Profiling
Have looked at a number of related methods, see also Dan Hill's book: About Face, which I previously posted about. Should these higher level methods be combined...
From Schneier on Security
Search Redirection and the Illicit Online Prescription Drug Trade
Really interesting research. Search-redirection attacks combine several well-worn tactics from black-hat SEO and web security. First, an attacker identifies high...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NIH Calling for
Last week, the National Institutes of Health
From Putting People First