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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
General Mills Experiments with Groupon
Covered broadly in the last few days. The first consumer packaged goods company to try this. This is an example of a manufacturer going around retailers alsoAlso...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Santa Fe Institute Looks at Behavior via Phones
Stan Dyck, colleague and correspondent, sends this along. The implications for modeling behavior are very great. Quoted from the WSJ below. Nathan Eaglewas mentioned...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Fabric Designs
Some of these are actually nice.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Algorithmic Pricing on Amazon
I love the aspect of automatically building interactions. The first step in artificial intelligence. But caution is always important. Here is an example of building...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quick Ways to Liven Up Your Twitter Feed
Ways to liven up twitter feed, with a number of business examples. Fairly good. Though still I think mostly playing to the weaknesses of Twitter itself.
From Geeking with Greg
Resurgence of interest in personalized information
There has been a lot of news about personalization and recommendations of information in the last week.Google News launched additional implicit personalizationFindory...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Educational Games That Teach Computer Science
There has been an increased interest in educational games lately — especially those that truly give the player a deeper understanding of a topic but are still fun...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Look at Nokia's Collapse
We visited Nokia's innovation group back in the 90s and were very impressed. They were the big disrupters then. Yet today they have been unable to credibly respond...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
An Interagency Multiscale Modeling Initiative
The Interagency Multiscale Modeling and Analysis Group (IMAG) — comprising program staff from NIH, NSF, DoE, DoD, NASA, USDA, and the VA — announced earlier this...
From Schneier on Security
Hard-Drive Steganography through Fragmentation
Clever: Khan and his colleagues have written software that ensures clusters of a file, rather than being positioned at the whim of the disc drive controller chip...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 25 April 2011
Apparently some people actually do read this blog. I have talked to a couple of people recently who say they keep up with what I
From The Eponymous Pickle
Do the Work
The Kindle edition of Steve Pressfield's excellent book: Do the Work is free. " ... Could you be getting in your way of producing great work? Have you started...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Textbooks Online
An example of bringing textbooks online to Android. This makes much sense. Instructional materials are further useful if they can be connected to other resources...
From Wild WebMink
? Document Foundation Member
Having applied for membership as soon as the process was announced, I’m honoured to have been accepted today as a Member of The Document Foundation. Having been...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Don't Miss Your Opportunity to Decide CSTA's Future
The 2011 CSTA election is drawing to a close. As you are hopefully aware, this year's election has been run entirely online, providing unprecedented convenience...
From The Eponymous Pickle
People are Walking Slower Now
In the WSJ, studies indicate we walk slower now. Implications for the modeling of retail spaces? " ... Pedestrians need more time, too. For years, traffic lights...
From CERIAS Blog
A Cautionary Incident
Recently, Amazon's cloud service failed for several customers, and has not come back fully for well over 24 hours. As of the time I write this, Amazon has not commented...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Tests Online Grocery Delivery
It has been rumored for some time, now the test is to proceed in California.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Weapons of Mass Assignment
In CACM: A Technical article, with implications for privacy-aware open source development: Weapons of Mass AssigmentA Ruby on Rails app highlights some serious,...
From The Eponymous Pickle