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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
Fumbling the Future
Mini review and current perspective of the book:"Fumbling the Future: How Xerox Invented, Then Ignored, the First Personal Computer is the title of a classic 1998...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Foursquare and Amex Test Loyalty Marketing
A local merchant test to see how Foursquare can be used to build loyalty: " ... The pilot program started Friday and will run through Tuesday, March 15. Participating...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SMS Codes for Postage in Europe
In Readwriteweb: Could it be that postage stamps are on their way out? I am a long time student of the history of the postage system , and this makes sense. Of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tracking Haiti Water with RFID Tags
Another example of how touchless scanners using smartphone can be used for rapid identification. " ... Deep Springs International is using NFC-enabled phones provided...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Media Success
What does social media success look like? " ... While firms are realizing that social media networks harbor the potential to provide intelligence and engage customers...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Python Tools for Visual Studio
Microsoft has just released the Python Tools for Visual Studio add-in (Beta) . This add-in lets programmers write Python code with Ironpython, CPython, debugIronPython...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-03-12
Sun.com Will Disappear After June 1 Looks like we have even more link corrosion coming up. Would it really be so hard just to freeze all the content and leave it...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Legality of Selling Yellow Margarine
MJ Perry on the inefficiency of using laws to distort free markets. Using the US case of Margarine.
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Senate Passes Patent Reform Bill
On March 8 the Senate passed a bill intended to reform the patent system. S. 23, the Patent Reform Act of 2011, would take steps to harmonize the U.S. patent system...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Webcast Series for K-12 educators and teacher recognition program
I received the following from the Microsoft Innovative Educators program today and thought it was worth sharing. We have a launched a new Microsoft Innovative...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Posterous App Group Management
Posterous has announced updates to its mobile apps, for both iOS and Android. The updated versions of the apps bring support for creating and managing Posterous...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Learning from Operations Research
In The Atlantic, a short post on using what is called 'Operations Research', and the value it has added to the efficiency of industry since WWII, improving everyone's...
From Schneier on Security
Video Interview with Me
This three-part video interview with me was conducted at the RSA Conference last month.
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-03-11
Press Release: OpenLogic Scan Shows Open Source License Violations for iPhone and Android While OpenLogic understandably has an interest in promoting their services...
From Schneier on Security
FBI and the Future of Wiretapping
Last month I posted Susan Landau's testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security on government eavesdropping...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Top Read Posts February 2011
When I look at the blog statistics for this blog I am often surprised. Surprised because some posts that I expect a lot from get ignored while others get more attention...
From Putting People First
Ethnography: Caught between myths
Qualitative researchers in the commercial sphere often feel they can only do
From Wild WebMink