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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
Solving Food Deserts with WalMart
Mark Perry posts about the potential for companies like WalMart to address such problems as the recently coined 'food desert' issue, using Washington DC as an example...
From The Eponymous Pickle
DemandTec and Dollar General
It has been a long time since I took a look at DemandTec for deep analytical applications like revenue management, promotion and assortment optimization. We looked...
From Putting People First
Achieving a sense of home for people who travel extensively
One of the people presenting at the DPPI conference in Milan last week was Aviaja Borup Lynggaard, an industrial Ph.D. scholar at Bang & Olufsen (B&O), attached...
From Putting People First
Toyota and CIID open a Window to the World
Imagine when a journey from A to B is no longer routine, as your car in the near-future encourages a sense of play, exploration and learning. This is the image...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
More Than Just The Box
Today has been a busy day at ISTE 2011 for me. I did some time at the booth and then went to a couple of sessions. Pat Yongpradit talked about what he is doing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Enabling a Musem with Augmented Reality
An excellent example of augmented reality, enabling the J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles to use Google Goggles to get more information about the museum's holdings...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Art of Game Design
In Process: The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses, by Jesse Schell. Have made my way through the introductory parts of the book. Very well done overview of...
From Computational Complexity
FCRC 2011. Part 2 of... probably 2.
(A workshop on Coding, Complexity and Sparsity will be held at Ann Arbor, August 1-4, 2011. See this website.) More thoughts on FCRC. Russell Impagliazzo...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Contributes Manufacturing Models
In the local press: Procter & Gamble has said they will contribute at no cost 3D process modeling programs to help create a ' manufacturing renaissance' in the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
GeoIQ: Visualize and Analyze Real-Time Geo Data
I had the opportunity to look at a relatively new Geographical Information System: GeoIQ. Have worked on a number of company GIS projects and this looks to be...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of June 27
June 29 Hearing: The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee will hold a hearing on consumer data privacy. 10 a.m., 253 Russell Building The House...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
MIT Professor
Fresh on the heels of Friday’s big announcement about a new National Robotics Initiative, I thought now would be a great time to feature a recent talk by MIT CSAIL...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
On being happy
What if you could engineer happiness? What if you could redesign your life so that you are happier? With professors in mind, Brian Martin wrote an essay entitled...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-06-27
The Failed Experiment of Software Patents – Open Enterprise One day one of these cases will have an outcome so outrageous that legislators will be forced to hold...
From Putting People First
Studying interaction design in Switzerland
A new master in interaction design will start in September in Switzerland — with some teaching support from Experientia — and a few places are still available....
From Schneier on Security
Common PINs
There's some great data on common iPhone passwords. I'm sure the results also apply to banking PINs.
From Putting People First
Book: Ethnographies of the Videogame
Ethnographies of the Videogame: Gender, Narrative and Praxis by Helen Thornham, City University London, UK Ethnographies of the Videogame Ashgate, July 2011, 218...
From The Eponymous Pickle
E-Books and Libraries
Good overview in ReadwriteWeb: More indications of if libraries will survive and what form they will take. Will they be in the Cloud with the rest of us? Or...
From Wild WebMink
? Coffee Time in Brazil
Just ending a relaxing Sunday with friends in Brazil, who have these coffee plants in their garden. It’s getting close to the time the berries need harvesting,...
From The Eponymous Pickle