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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
Kosmix and WalMart Labs
Been following the acquisition of the Kosmix search solution by Wal-Mart for some time.Now ReadWriteWeb has an article with some speculation about what it is all...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-08-30
Nym Wars I'm not sure what offends me most about Google's idiotic approach here; the patronising parochialism that says they are the arbiters of what a "real" name...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
ACSL International Contest About to Begin
Interested in programming competitions for your students but travel is not in the budget? You may want to look into the ACSL contests. This announcement came via...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brandwashed Read and Reviewed
Just completed a review copy of : Brandwashed: Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade us to Buy by Martin Lindstrom. To be available September...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Ethical Hacking
I attended the hackers convention in Las Vegas this month which was officially called DEFCON (DEFCON is military speak for Defense Condition) #19 (in its 19th year)...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Enhancing In-Store With Mobile
Some good examples from Ad-Age. " ... More consumers are turning to tablets and smartphones to shop, but this back-to-school season major retailers are using mobile...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Good Decision Blog
A new blog by IBM on Decision Management, appears to be useful.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Junaio Announces New Browser: Augmented World
An interesting press release from Junaio. Note in particular the ability to use multiple capabilities, beyond the now becoming common QR codes. As mentioned ...
From Computational Complexity
Patrick Fischer (1935-2011)
Patrick Fischer, founder of STOC and SIGACT, passed away Friday at the age of 75. Fischer's research spanned from studying the relative power of different machine...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Why can
One of the most common data structuring in Computer Science is the hash table. It is used to store key-value pairs. For example, it is a good data structure to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Top Salespeople Born or Made?
Mostly born based on personality tests, says an article in the Harvard Review. We showed this years ago with something as simplistic as Myers-Briggs tests.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tablets in Manufacturing
In Computerworld: The iPad takes on manufacturing The iPad, darling of the consumer crowd, dares to get gritty as Pfizer and other companies try it out in industrial...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
A Summer Social Webshop
The following is a special contribution to this blog by
From Schneier on Security
Screenshots of Chinese Hacking Tool
It's hard to know how serious this really is: The screenshots appear as B-roll footage in the documentary for six seconds
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 29 August 2011
Hurricane Irene was the big news on the east coast of the US and parts of the Caribbean last week. Oh and there was a surprising east coast earthquake last week...
From Wild WebMink
? The Social Media Chorale
Chatting with Jill earlier, I ended up watching this TED talk by composer Eric Whitacre: Which led me to his Virtual Choir project, which I found exceptionally...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More on Crowd Sourcing Difficult Tasks
Another post about MobileWorks. A favorite topic that we attempted to utilize with the capabilities of the time, but without great success. " ... Enabling software...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 29 August 2011
Hurricane Irene was the big news on the east coast of the US and parts of the Caribbean last week. Oh and there was a surprising east coast earthquake last week...
From Wild WebMink
UK Public Holiday Monday
Just in case you’re not aware, the UK has its end-of-the-summer public holiday tomorrow so none of your UK contacts will be at work (unless they’re hiding out in...
From Putting People First