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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
Onions and Oil Prices
A colleague and I had a discussion about gasoline and oil pricing, and then I found this interesting post by M. J. Perry on Onions and Oil Pricing. What causes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Five Big Brands Betting on Social Gaming
Good examples in Mashable of the current use of gaming by some big brands: "... Skeptics of social gaming for business purposes exist, but that
From The Eponymous Pickle
Artificial Intelligence Needs a Reboot?
I am inclined to agree, having worked in practical application of its ideas from the late 70s through the 80s. It needs to be fundamentally re-thought. Formal...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cinci Business Intelligence Group Meeting
Sent by Subrata Debnath: of Analysis Express.Subrata Debnath found Cincinnati Business Intelligence Group - Business Social, Sponsored by Endeca on LinkedIn Events...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Calling for 2011-12 Computing Innovation Fellows
Today, the Computing Community Consortium, a standing committee of
From Schneier on Security
"Operation Pumpkin"
Wouldn't it be great if this were not a joke: the security contingency that was in place in the event that Kate Middleton tried to run away just before the wedding...
From Putting People First
Intel anthropologist offers ten visions for the future
As a follow-up to the previous post, Intel’s user experience discourse is further elaborated on by Genevieve Bell, Intel Fellow and the company’s Director of Interaction...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-05-04
13 reasons why the Infringing File Sharing Act is bad for you by Christopher Wood This is an excellent list of reasons why internet disconnection laws are such...
From Putting People First
Intel CTO stresses the importance of creating compelling user experiences
Justin Rattner, Intel
From Schneier on Security
Unintended Security Consequences of the New Pyrex Recipe
This is interesting: When World Kitchen took over the Pyrex brand, it started making more products out of prestressed soda-lime glass instead of borosilicate....
From Computational Complexity
Forty Years of P v NP
In the afternoon of May 4, 1971, in the Stouffer's Somerset Inn in Shaker Heights, Ohio, Steve Cook presented his STOC paper proving that Satisfiability is NP...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Why Not C#
Someone recently passed on same objection to using C# as a first or otherwise early programming language. I hear these sorts of comments all the time and while...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ownership of TV Falls in the US
In the NYT, " For the first time in 20 years, the number of homes in the United States with television sets has dropped ... " I note not the number of TV sets...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
What is the CCC?
A bit of shameless self-promotion: I’ve been asked many questions about the Computing Community Consortium in the past year — and we’ve recently put together a...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Sock Monkey and Scratch
Last week Sock Monkey attended the National Science Foundation Working Group on High School Introductory Computer Science where he had the pleasure of meeting Mitch...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Sock Monkey and Scratch
Last week Sock Monkey attended a meeting of the National Science Foundation Working Group on High School Introduction to Computer Science. While he was there...
From Schneier on Security
Decline in Cursive Writing Leads to Increase in Forgery Risk?
According to this article, students are no longer learning how to write in cursive. And, if they are learning it, they're forgetting how. Certainly the ubiquity...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hello @WalmartLabs
An intriguing development. As part of my role in the innovation centers I hosted Wal-Mart many times and I hope we inspired them to set up something similarKosmix...
From The Eponymous Pickle