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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 Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 20 August 2011
No out of the area travel for me last week. It was nice to sleep in my own bed every night. This is not to say that I wasn’t busy. I had some meetings with the@purplespatula...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Colleague Mentions the Hapax Legomenon
The dreaded Hapax Legomenon is mentioned and I have to look it up. Nothing to do with children's building blogs or Greek Gods. Its a kind of 'black swan' of literature...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Using Consumer Generated Media
This has not happened very often: P&G leverages consumer-generated media "Life Opens Up," a Procter & Gamble campaign for Crest and Oral-B, uses consumer-generated...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Patient Navigators
And if needed, the patient circle can be choreographed by the patient navigator, something I am thinking about now.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Numerical Errors
In the WSJ Blog, the Numbers Guy: We increasingly depend on data of many kinds. What happens when it is simply wrong? It happens more often than you think. ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Car Makers Test EEG Headrests
In Technology Review: The object will be to test sleepiness in drivers. More embedded sensors. Will other biosensors be far behind? " ... The brain-sensing hardware...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Future Internet Architecture: Content-Centric Networking
Next month, a little more than a year after the National Science Foundation (NSF) launched the Future Internet Architecture (FIA) program,
From The Eponymous Pickle
DemandTec Blog
A few posts ago I mentioned work that DemandTec was doing with Sam's Club. I just noticed that DemandTec as a blog of interest. Recent posts cover issues in...
From Schneier on Security
Looking Backward at Terrorism
Nice essay on the danger of too much security: The great lie of the war on terror is not that we can sacrifice a little liberty for greater security. It is that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nielsen Gathering Mobile Data
FastCompany article on how Nielsen is gathering data about mobile: " ... Nielsen Company, the group that has tracked and reported consumer information on radio...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Group Buying in the Grocery Store
Always interested in whats possible in the context of the grocery aisle. Now about Aisle50, group buying in the store. Is there also a gaming component to this...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Ready or Not
Well according to my Twitter feed a lot of schools in the US south are back to school. Teachers are reporting for duty and students are expected any day now. My...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Sign Up
58,000 have signed up so far for the upcoming free Stanford AI course. All about it and the rush to learn about artificial intelligence. We worked with Stanford...
From Schneier on Security
The Dilemma of Counterterrorism Policy
Any institution delegated with the task of preventing terrorism has a dilemma: they can either do their best to prevent terrorism, or they can do their best toA...
From Wild WebMink
HP Seems To Agree
Just a few hours after I posted my CWUK article, HP showed how much they agreed with my analysis by cancelling the TouchPad and putting WebOS on ice. Will they...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Ready or Not–New School Year About To Start
Well according to my Twitter feed a lot of schools in the US south are back to school. Teachers are reporting for duty and students are expected any day now. My...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple Augmented Reality
A detailed view of how Apple appears to be looking at augmented reality using a map + compass approach. Based on Apple patents, so it is unclear how this might...
From The Eponymous Pickle