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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
Meeting Wiz Appears in Smart Meeting Mag
Russell Brumfield, 'the Wiz', who we have worked with in the area of smart meeting technology and scent delivery strategies, appears in the August 2011 issue of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Semantic Webs in the Enterprise
The movement of the semantic web into the enterprise. One domain area at a time. I have seen this direction as well. Creating a completely generic solution,even...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kindle in the Browser
Amazon now offers a Kindle application for the Safari and Chrome Browsers (others coming) for access to the book reading cloud. I use their App on the iPhone...
From Schneier on Security
GPRS Hacked
Just announced: Nohl's group found a number of problems with GPRS. First, he says, lax authentication rules could allow an attacker to set up a fake cellular base...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
PCAST Sustainability Report Emphasizes
The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) released a report titled Sustaining Environmental Capital: Protecting Society and Economy,
From Wild WebMink
? Amazon Escapes The App Trap
As I predicted in June, Amazon has quietly launched read.amazon.com, a full-featured HTML 5 version of the Kindle that runs perfectly on the iPad, looks for all...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Collaborative Asynchronous Searching
I recently mentioned SearchTeam. I see it has now been looked at and reviewed in detail in Information Today, Note in particular the description of the Semantic...
From Schneier on Security
"Taxonomy of Operational Cyber Security Risks"
I'm a big fan of taxonomies, and this -- from Carnegie Mellon -- seems like a useful one: The taxonomy of operational cyber security risks, summarized in Table...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Science Before Programming
For most people the first real computer science course is introduction to programming. It may be called something else but effectively what it is is a course that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Benchmark for AI
In CACM: Top chess players can now be defeated by computer programs. But this has not been the case for the Japanese game Go. New methods use Monte Carlo simulation...
From Wild WebMink
OggCamp Approaching
If you’re in the south of England (or want to travel here) don’t forget that OggCamp is being held this weekend. It’s in Farnham, just off the M3, and you’ll want...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neuromarketing and Big Marketers
A long article in Fast Company on how the company Nielsen subsidiary Neurofocus is working with major companies to implement Neuromarketing. Quite interesting...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
DARPA: Automated Program Analysis for Cybersecurity
Fresh on the heels of announcing a call for social media research, DARPA’s Information Innovation Office (I2O) has issued a solicitation for “innovative research...
From Schneier on Security
Free-Riding on Plant Security Countermeasures
There's a security story from biology I've used a few times: plants that use chemicals to call in airstrikes by wasps on the herbivores attacking them. This is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stampt Customer Loyalty App
Recently brought to my attention and examined: Stampt, a simple smartphone based customer loyalty program. Links to social networking systems. More here,
From The Eponymous Pickle
Math and Language
In New Scientist: Does mathematics depend less on our language than we thought? Mental calculation methods seem to say so, as well as studies of abacus usage.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Usury and the collapse of empires
The American government recently played Russian roulette with its economy by threatening to default on its debt. Of course, nobody actually thought that the Americans...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Is Gamification Bull?
Having been a veteran of the AI hype world I am always sensitive and open to criticisms of new technology hype waves. I like to promote new ideas because I amHere...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-08-09
LibreOffice vs. OpenOffice.org: Showdown for Best Open Source Office Suite | Wazi If LibreOffice maintains the pace of improvement Brian describes here, by the...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog