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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
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
Adknowledge Moves Facebook Games to Web Portals
Interesting development includes monetization, which will probably see some more games appearing on sites. Is that good?
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