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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
Social Search and Bing
Friend and Colleague Sundar Kadayam has an excellent post on Social Search and Bing.He and his team at Zakta and Searchteam really understand the complexity behind...
From Putting People First
Digital DIY
The Guardian reports on a study by an “exasperated academic” (Philip Ely, head of the business and community school at the University for the Creative Arts, and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cincinnati Wins World Social Media Title
This blog comes to you from social media command central just outside of Cincinnati every day. I was surprised to see that Mashable had given Cinci, my home for...
From Schneier on Security
Yet Another "People Plug in Strange USB Sticks" Story
I'm really getting tired of stories like this: Computer disks and USB sticks were dropped in parking lots of government buildings and private contractors, andcourse...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CISE AD Issues Letter to the Community on Robotics Initiative
NSF/CISE Assistant Director Farnam Jahanian has issued the following letter to the community, describing the National Robotics Initiative (NRI) launched last week...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Makes Another Play for the Social Web
Yes, Google + is another attempt. Buzz, the earlier approach has slowed down and I rarely even go there anymore. There are some good ideas in Google+, in particular...
From Putting People First
Europe split in happiness survey
In one of the biggest surveys of happiness carried out in the aftermath of the economic crisis, the vast majority of people in Britain, France and Italy have little...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Time to Sell New Consumers on the Use of the Retail Store
Overplayed I think. There will always be interest in fully contextual, physical retail experiences. Not to say that there will not be increasing use of new online...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Windows Gets Apps
App stores are such a great idea. One stop shopping for any kind of software. Nicely categorized for browsing, priced and reviewed. Competitive to keep pricesMuch...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unilever Makes Mobile Key Marketing Strategy
Unilever Plans for Mobile Marketing PrimacyUnilever aims to use mobile as its primary marketing channel within ten years, in a strategy that includes covering mobile...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links Post 28 June 2010
This post is last this week. Why? Totally wrapped up in ISTE. OK I dis spend some of Sunday visiting the Mummies of the World exhibit at the Franklin institute...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
L.A. Noire: A Great Story Despite Its Linearity
My mind has been occupied by narrative lately. I've been surveying literature about non-linear / interactive narrative and storytelling with the goal of eventually...
From Computational Complexity
Math on FUTURAMA and LAW AND ORDER:CI
MATH ON TV FUTURAMA mentions the Banach-Tarski Paradox! In the June 23, 2011 episode Professor Farnsworth invents a Banach-Tarski-Dupla-Shrinker which takeshere...
From The Eponymous Pickle
GS1: The Digital Consumer and Trusted Product Information
Tomorrow!GS1 MobileCom/B2C Day 2011 What is it? GS1 MobileCom/B2C Day 2011 is global event to understand thegrowing potential of mobile commerce and digital business...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Council to Meet in Washington on July 15
The CCC Council is scheduled to meet in Washington, DC, on Friday, July 15, and will be discussing the role of fundamental computing research in Smart Health &...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Home Grown Computer Camp
Michael Scherotter who works for Microsoft decided to run a computer programming day camp in his home for his 9 year old son and 9 of his friends. Taking on teaching...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Sells ads Everwhere
Amazon has started an ad network where you can sell ads to just about everything, anywhere. A clever idea. Much more." ... The e-commerce giant has started what...
From The Eponymous Pickle