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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 Putting People First
Vodafone foresight on the world in 2020
Vodafone has launched its new futureagenda website that presents the results of a 12 month insight and foresight programme on the world in 2020. The project, which...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 20 December 2010
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Ontoprise
Brought to my attention and reviewing: Ontoprise. " ... is a leading independent software vendor for industry-proven Semantic Web infrastructure technologies and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Body Browser
Just took a look at the Google Body Browser Beta. It requires WebGL, such as that included in the new Chrome Beta. Other options at the link. Nicely done ......
From Wild WebMink
? Kinds Of Trust
USTR’s Request for Comments on ACTA Your holiday project: send USTR at least one comment on ACTA. If you need ideas, let me know… The Anonymous WikiLeaks protests...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Commerce Department and Federal Trade Commission Seek Guidance on Online Privacy
In the first half of December the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Commerce Department's Internet Policy Task Force (IPTF) each issued reports focused on...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Private Car Networks
In MF Perry's blog on the natural emergence of markets: A car network that works from a smartphone: " ... "Request a car by telling Uber where you are. Text us...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ad Injection for Mobile Advertising
Recently in the Metaio Newsletter: " .... San Francisco / Munich, December 9th, 2010 - junaio, currently seen by many experts as the most advanced mobile Augmented...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Imaginary Dieting
Thinking about eating can be filling? Research ongoing in this space: In the NYT: Real Evidence for Diets That Are Just Imaginary
From Wild WebMink
? Strange Communion
I don’t think I’ll be able to get out to hear her performing live tomorrow evening in Winchester at The Tower, but I wanted to mention how much I have enjoyed Thea...
From My Biased Coin
End of Year Update from the Trenches (Area Dean News)
I last posted on Lance's blog about two months ago, so it seems a good time for an update.My class is (hooray!) finished. I've sent out grades to the students,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Word Lens Translation App
I have worked with machine translation in Google and also with high end translation systems. The result is never perfect. They can often but not always give you...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Prosthetic Tentacle
Impressive: Designed for a class project while getting her degree at the Industrial Design Department at the University of Washington, Kaylene Kau has not only...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Food Lion IPhone App
In SupermarketNews: Always innovative Food Lion is promoting its new IPhone App with contests.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bradley Efron Says it Simply
A very good interview with Stanford statistics prof Bradley Efron in Significance Magazine. I was sent a PDF, but I see it is regrettably behind a pay wall. There...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter Focus on Sales and Innovation
In the Cincinnati Enquirer: P&G outlines focus on sales and innovation at the Wall Street Meeting in Cincinnati yesterday. A good outline of company direction...
From Schneier on Security
Hiding PETN from Full-Body Scanners
From the Journal of Transporation Security, "An evaluation of airport x-ray backscatter units based on image characteristics," by Leon Kaufman and Joseph W. Carlson...
From The Noisy Channel
CIKM 2011 Industry Event
CIKM 2011 is nearly a year away, but I wanted to give folks a heads up about the Industry Event there that I am organizing with Tony Russell-Rose. These events...
From Schneier on Security
Did the FBI Plant Backdoors in OpenBSD?
It has been accused of it. I doubt this is true. One, it's a very risky thing to do. And two, there are more than enough exploitable security vulnerabilities...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM