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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 My Biased Coin
Papers to Teach This Year
This fall I'm again teaching my "introductory" graduate class loosely centered on the themes of big data and communications/networks, Algorithms at the End of the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
RFID Reads from a Distance
Storefrontbacktalk reports about a passive RFID tag read from a distance of 217 feet, presented at the recent DEFCON conference. The comments debate if it was...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Micro Drones at Google
Google ordering micro drones. For filling in the details on streetview? Don't swat that fly, could be Google getting data.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Furniture Mass Customization
I have just been looking at at some examples of mass customization. Most appear to be in the clothing area. Here is another, a startup in the mass customization...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Talking Washers and Dryers
In BWeek, More on work by Kenmore having appliances report their maintenance issues remotely. We experimented with a number of these appliances in the innovation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter and Safe Drinking Water
Have followed P&G's safe drinking water for children effort in this blog for some time. Now they are rolling out a new effort featuring female bloggers.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovation is not Creativity
In the HBR Blog: by Vijay Govindarajan ' ... We like to think of an organization's capacity for innovation as creativity multiplied by execution. We use "multiplication"...
From My Biased Coin
Back from Travels
The slowdown in posting for the past month has been primarily due to travel. For the last month, I've been in England, based primarily at the Computer Science. ...
From The Noisy Channel
Taking Blekko out for a Spin
If you’re a search engine junkie like me, you’ve probably heard about Blekko, a search engine that has been percolating for over two years and recently launched...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Are Marketers Spying on You Online?
A very good little AdAge article that discusses what marketers know and what they don't know about you online. I also recommend reading the comments to the article...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Canadian Squid Stamp
It's a giant fiberglass squid from Newfoundland.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Vinimaya Virtual Supplier Network
I have now had a couple of in-depth conversations with the local company Vinimaya. Very impressive and particularly simple and cost effective solutions to company...
From Schneier on Security
Yet Another Way to Sneak Liquids onto an Airplane
Coffee cup disguised as a camera lens.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tesco Mobile Shopping App
In the UK MarketingWeek. Tesco is always innovative. In particular interesting is their motivation for bypassing some more popular smartphone platforms:"Tesco...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Airline Booking Augmented Reality
Metaio sends along this simple application of augmented reality in travel services: ' .. The air transport IT specialist, SITA and Malaysia Airlines have developed...
From Schneier on Security
More Brain Scans to Detect Future Terrorists
Worked well in a test: For the first time, the Northwestern researchers used the P300 testing in a mock terrorism scenario in which the subjects are planning,More...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Silverlight 4 XNA Platformer Level Editor for Windows Phone 7
Interesting in developing games for the Windows Phone 7? David Rousset has just finished a complete series of blog posts explaining a demo he
From Computer Science Teachers Association
University Faculty Can Help with K-12!
I think many of us (including faculty at liberal arts colleges) hold a pretty outdated view of what goes on in different kinds of institutions. We tend to think...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mass Customization Friday
An interesting mass customization event will be held today on Facebook. They are described at the link. " ... 20 startups in the mass customization space will...
From The Eponymous Pickle