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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
Google Testing Phone-as-Wallet
Some reports via Ars Technica about Google testing the NFC short range capability for SmartPhones. There were rumors about the IPhone including NFC this year,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bringing R to the Data Warehouse
Given the increasing use of R in academia, this makes much sense. Increasingly people come out of school with knowledge of the Open Source package and its application...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Moving Value of an Impression
Good recent piece in AdAge Digital. As I sit in a restaurant watching a number of people heads-down on smartphones. The attention budget we have is clearly now...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
My Great Canadian Appathon Experience
This past weekend was the Great Canadian Appathon, a 48-hour game design and development competition. I was on Team Harmony with some of the guys who helped out...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-03-15
Open Source Software Hits a Strategic Tipping Point – Laurie Wurster – The Conversation – Harvard Business Review It is confirmed; open source has hit the top of...
From Putting People First
Experientia intern wins UNICEF 2010 INDEX design challenge
Experientia intern, Ane Eguiguren, together with her team partner Fran
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Heuristics
How do we learn? How do we develop strategy in games, in work, in our daily lives? We store information and we use information from the past to decide what will...
From The Eponymous Pickle
KMart Tests AT&T Geolocated ShopAlerts
A not unexpected next step. The use of geo-fencing to understand location and react to it with push marketing. Most interesting will be how consumers buy into...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Associative Memory in Defense and Aerospace
I have mentioned Saffron Technology several times here, we examined them for associative applications in the AI space for example-based knowledge systems. Here...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Too Reliant on GPS?
In O'Reilly Radar, an article about the increasing reliance on GPS location signals. They are a critical part of our information infrastructure. Although itare...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Easier Access to E-Books
More on E-Books from the library:"he steady growth of e-books has forced libraries to contend with how to curate and distribute materials in a way that makes them...
From Computational Complexity
Computer Science Takes Over
We live in our own research areas. I focus on computational complexity and marvel at what our field has accomplished over my over 25 years in the field as wellseries...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of March 14
March 14 Hearing: The Intellectual Property, Competition and the Internet Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on promoting and protecting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dropping the Dollar Bill
A clear case for replacing all US denominations below five dollars with coins. Why has it not worked in the past? Because they didn't remove the dollar bill. ...
From Wild WebMink
? Subscriptions Article Available
My article discussing why open source subscriptions should not be procured with the same assumptions and procedures as proprietary software is now available in...
From Schneier on Security
Using Language Patterns to Identify Anonymous E-Mail
Interesting research. It only works when there's a limited number of potential authors: To test the accuracy of their technique, Fung and his colleagues examined...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 14 March 2011
This highlight of my week last week was being in Dallas Texas for SIGCSE. This is by far my favorite conference of the year. I was able to connect with a bunchTop...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smartphone Enabled Cancer Detection
A protype that is a good example of mobile sensor-based data display and analysis: At the Singularity Hub: " ... Massachusetts General Hospital that have knocked...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Circles
It has been rumored that Google will soon launch a new social networking system called Google Circles. Do we need a new social network? The emphasis stated is...
From The Eponymous Pickle