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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
Personal Computer in the Executive Suite
I saw this post about IBM's first personal computer, not the consumer PC, but the IBM 5150. In 1981 we received a loaner from IBM. One ended up in our Chairman's...
From Schneier on Security
Counterfeit Pilot IDs and Uniforms Will Now Be Sufficient to Bypass Airport Security
This seems like a really bad idea: ...the Transportation Security Administration began a program Tuesday allowing pilots to skirt the security-screening process...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Made in China Spending
MJ Perry on US consumer spending on goods made in China. Less than 2%. Surprising that it is so low.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shopping in 3D
Is it more fun to shop online in 3D rather than 2D? I experimented with this concept in the seminal virtual community Second Life, and found it less than satisfying...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amex Gives You Credit for Network
Interesting development I was late to: " ... Creating a social network is so last week. Today, American Express is unveiling a social media platform called "Link...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More on Wolfram CDF
Wolfram's blog has a long post on Computable Document Format (CDF) which explains it nicely. Now experimentally built into WolframAlpha. The idea of having a...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Seeking Ideas for
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has just announced a Request for Ideas (RFI) about Data Intensive Science: The increasing volume and complexity of scientific...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brandwashed
Just starting to read: Brandwashed: Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade us to Buy by Martin Lindstrom. To be available September 20. Have...
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 May issue of Communications of the ACM. As always, much of the material in CACM is premium content, and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Coming to a Mall Near You
The esteemed Mayo Clinic is opening a retail outlet at the Mall of America. In MJ Perry's blog.
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G: Kinds of Innovation
Jonathan Salem Baskin on innovation at P&G. Is P&G succeeding because of innovative branding, or because of functional innovation? I have certainly seen both...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rules of Exception:Adapting the Process
In ReadWriteWeb: The way to address this is to have the process have the ability to adapt to changes. That can and has been done. It does not need AI, just...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Macy's and Predictive Analytics
How Macy's uses predictive analytics. Visualization and other techniques. " ... The machinery of predictive analytics is only as good as the human-engineered...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Fast computation of scalar products, and some lessons in optimization
Given two arrays, say (1,2,3,4) and (4,3,1,5), their scalar product is simply the sum of the products: 1
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Low Level Programming
A blog post by Andy Firth, an Engineer Architect at Bungie, called The demise of the low level Programmer is getting some attention lately. In the post he lists...
From Computational Complexity
My Cruise Vacation
Last week, my wife and I took a vacation to the Caribbean on the biggest cruise ship there is. I like cruising, just relaxing, swimming, reading, eating, drinking...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-08-11
Apple, publishers conspired against $9.99 Amazon e-books, says lawsuit It's not enough to be the richest company in the world. Everyone else has to fail as well...
From Schneier on Security
Security Flaws in Encrypted Police Radios
"Why (Special Agent) Johnny (Still) Can
From The Eponymous Pickle
WiFi at McDonalds
I have now been a long time user of Wifi in the wild and note the many ways that it is applied. In some cases simply, in other places logging you out periodically...
From Putting People First