From Schneier on Security
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration
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A fully operational, hummingbird-like operational aircraft.: " ... The hand-made prototype aircraft has a wingspan of 16 centimeters (6.5 inches) tip-to-tip and...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | February 19, 2011 at 06:24 PM
As we’ve blogged in this space before, the CCC has sponsored a series of “research visions” sessions at computing research conferences over the past year — hoping...Erwin Gianchandani From The Computing Community Consortium Blog | February 19, 2011 at 03:04 PM
Short, but mostly non technical CW article on the Jeopardy-Watson IBM supercomputer, comparing at least its organizational and logical size to the human brain. ...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | February 19, 2011 at 02:47 PM
ForgeRock Shines on Sun's Legacy Identity – InternetNews.com Lovely overview of ForgeRock's first year in this interview with me from last week. (tags: ForgeRock...Simon Phipps From Wild WebMink | February 19, 2011 at 01:01 PM
Make It So: Interaction Design Lessons from Science Fiction A book in progress by Nathan Shedroff & Chris Noessel Publisher: Rosenfeld Media Anticipated publication...Experientia From Putting People First | February 19, 2011 at 09:30 AM
More examples of increasingly providing more detailed information about products:Clorox Reveals Chemicals You've Been Dumping on Your Floors, Counters, Commodes...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | February 19, 2011 at 04:27 AM
Interesting:
Squid can hear, scientists have confirmed. But they don't detect the changes in pressure associated with sound waves, like we do. They have another...schneier From Schneier on Security | February 18, 2011 at 10:17 PM
Not an electronic wallet, a physical one:
Virtually indestructible, the dunhill Biometric Wallet will open only with touch of your fingerprint.
It can be linked...schneier From Schneier on Security | February 18, 2011 at 07:45 PM
Jan Ochs on setting up a Facebook fan page and making it more effective. Useful ideas.Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | February 18, 2011 at 06:28 PM
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Researchers at and working with IBM have created a computer and software that played and beat the best human players of the TV game show Jeopardy. This is an event...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | February 18, 2011 at 04:44 PM
The rules for Microsoft’s Windows Phone Marketplace appear to mean that even Microsoft’s own open source license – the Microsoft Reciprocal License – is banned....Simon Phipps From Wild WebMink | February 18, 2011 at 04:00 PM
I have not seen much about advanced kiosks of late. We experimented with them in labs and stores. The additional capability of having a kiosk or display 'look...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | February 18, 2011 at 03:54 PM
In Adage ... while platforms can impress people, get them looking, content has always been king: Call It a Comeback: Media to Thrive in World of New Devices, Technologies...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | February 18, 2011 at 03:32 PM
Decimated. Vanquished. Demolished. As you probably know by now, those are but a few of the words being used to describe how “Watson” — the IBM question-answering...Erwin Gianchandani From The Computing Community Consortium Blog | February 18, 2011 at 02:19 PM
Moglen on Freedom Box and making a free net Eben’s ideas on a zero-interaction home server (“FreedomBox”) to route internet traffic safely and effectively seem...Simon Phipps From Wild WebMink | February 18, 2011 at 01:02 PM
NIST has just defined two new versions of SHA-512. They're SHA-512/224 and SHA-512/256: 224- and 256-bit truncations of SHA-512 with a new IV. They've done this...schneier From Schneier on Security | February 18, 2011 at 12:22 PM
The World Economic Forum just came out with a report, “Personal Data: The Emergence of a New Asset Class,” that surely is going to raise some controversy, as it...Experientia From Putting People First | February 18, 2011 at 11:49 AM
Here are a few of the articles that have caught my attention recently:Googler and AI guru Peter Norvig on what artificial intelligence has been able to do and what...Greg Linden From Geeking with Greg | February 18, 2011 at 02:28 AM
Google has changed its social searches so that when you are logged in with your Google account you will get interleaved results that include hits from your ownMuch...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | February 18, 2011 at 01:05 AM
I am in the midst of a consulting project where it looks like it will be very hard to disrupt the industry. Most everything has been done already. All the slack...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | February 17, 2011 at 10:31 PM