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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 Schneier on Security
Internet Quarantines
Last month, Scott Charney of Microsoft proposed that infected computers be quarantined from the Internet. Using a public health model for Internet security, the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wikipedia Seeking $16 Million
In Readwriteweb: Wikipedia is seeking $16 Million to remain a free service. Certainly the most successful public wiki service and well worth that amount. That...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Businesses that Smartphones are Replacing
This list is fairly obvious. It is interesting to think about what markets the smartphone is changing markedly. In the end it is all about have a small, powerful...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Numbers Rule Your World
A good review of the new book: Numbers Rule Your World: the hidden influence of probability and statistics on everything you do , by Junk Charts blogger Kaiser...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Santa Fe Institute
I was the enterprise's representative to the well known Santa Fe Institute for several years. Was always interesting, sometimes directly useful. Mark Montgomery...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tufte Library being Auctioned
Visual graphic data design guru Edward Tufte's library of design resources is being auctioned by Christies on December 2.
From The Eponymous Pickle
At the Singularity Hub
Retinal implants at the newly discovered Singularity Hub blog. I have my doubts about broad singularity type predictions, but this blog covers lot of related topics...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics as a Path to Value
Good Sloan Review article on analytics and value. I agree, of course. Build key processes into your enterprise to integrate analytical methods. The data is there...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-11-14
Red Hat tries the value argument for open source This is the sort of thing that makes me want to believe in synchronicity. My keynote in Bolzano just before Savio...
From Wild WebMink
? Strudel Considered Harmful
Just leaving Bolzano after three nights here, passing through the tiny airport I noticed an unusual security requirement – which was being actively enforced. Despite...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Venuegen
Venuegen was just brought to my attention. I like the aspect of actually tailoring the venue to the specific meeting need. Constructing a relevant context. their...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Overcomplicating Charts
In Junk Charts. A good example of how a visualization of data can be overcomplicated. A simple line chart is often much clearer, but avoided simply because it does...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Meeting Grace Hopper
I recently attended the 2010 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference. I had gone mainly to attend the K-12 Computing Teachers Workshop, but got...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Phones Getting Smart
In GigaOm: Half of US consumers to use a smartphone by end of next year. It is moving quite quickly and the implication for sensors in the hands of consumers continues...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
EduBlogger Nominations 2010
I have this whole mixed emotion thing with the EduBlogger awards. On one hand I think that everyone who blogs in education is a positive force and basically a
From Wild WebMink
? Leverage, Don
Chatting with Eucalyptus Co-founder about OpenStack Great to see Eucalyptus exploring ways to engage with OpenStack – very positive trend. It’s the sign of a mind...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Blue Blogs
Doug Lautzenheimer posts about IBM blogging. I talked to IBM's social media manager five years ago and was very impressed even then by what I saw. Their white...
From The Eponymous Pickle
This Blog Mentioned
This blog has been kindly mentioned in the Business intelligence software blog by Doug Lautzenheiser. Thanks! Put his excellent blog on your feed as well.
From The Eponymous Pickle