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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
Changing Mobile Landscape
Dave Knox shares a presentation via Jim Cuene of General Mills on the changing mobile landscape. Well done. See also: Cuene's blog.
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Dark Silicon and Smartphone Batteries
I have had discussions with several friends lately about the increasing complexity of smartphones and the contribution of that to short battery life. So I bitThe...
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Ingenuity Advisors
A local company of interest that I recently talked to: Ingenuity Advisors. " ... We offer a strategy book honed by decades of experience battling in a myriad of...
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Stephen Few on Bullet Graphs
Stephen Few at the recent Tableau users conference talks about bullet graphs. I have been a user of Tableau systems for years, in and outside of the enterprise....
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-09-05
Ultra All Stars: The 2010 Sampler for Amazon This free sampler album (only downloadable by people with US Amazon.Com accounts) has some great electronic/dance tracks...
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Untangling and Riding Social Web Structure
A good Economist article on the usefulness of social webs as a source of data about social connection structure. Interesting mentions of SAS social network analysis...
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Great Mancession
Economist Mark J Perry makes the case that there is a great mancession going on. The WSJ interactive graphs show it. Yet we dare not mention it out loud.
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World Without E-Mail
One man's vision, a world without e-mail. Replacing 90% of your email with social software. Would that work for the typical person online?
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Household Robotics in Japan
An area we looked at closely. Aiming to include in home-of-the-future applications. An aging population may need many help-mate robots in the future. Japan is...
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Creating Knowledge from Incident Reports
Creating knowledge from events. It is like fitting a line through a number of points. Very valuable, but needs to be carefully done. We experimented with after-action...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
What Does a Computer Scientist Look Like?
Career and Technical Education exposed me to the field of computing. I joined two organizations in high school that changed my life. My participation in FBLA...
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Future Internet Architecture
From the CACM: On the future architecture of the Internet. Should it evolve or should we wipe the slate clean?
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Flying Drones into a Hurricane
We are gaining an increasing knowledge of 3D Space. The obvious examples are military, but I am glad to see that drones are starting to be applied in the air to...
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NCR Deli Ordering Systems at Big Y
We experimented with kiosk based deli ordering systems in our store innovation spaces. It's an obvious application rather than having people stand in line. IBMHere...
From Putting People First
The future of screen technology
TAT, a Swedish software technology and mobile interface design company, recently ran a two-week open innovation experiment, during which they collaborate with the...
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Smart Postage Stamp
In the UK the Royal Mail has launched the first 'smart stamp'. More at the BBC. It utilizes the Junaio system on a smartphone (which is required to see the effect)...
From Computational Complexity
CS Happenings
Yesterday I was at a meeting of the CCC Council, add in a couple of emails and I have lots of short notes on CS stuff. In these meetings I get to hear about CS...
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links for 2010-09-03
Does the Fate of OpenSolaris Tell Us Where Unix Is Headed? No, I don't think so. But it does liberate Illumos. I coined a new law yesterday – "For every epic fail...
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