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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
Summer Pleasure Reading
Just back from the beach. Part of my reading reading there: How Pleasure Works, The New Science of Why We Like What We Like. by Yale Prof Paul Bloom. The Amazon...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Tests Item-Level RFID
As early as 2000 we were positioning RFID tags to soon replace barcodes for item level identification. I gave presentations to many hundreds of innovation space...
From The Noisy Channel
SIGIR 2010: Day 3 Industry Track Keynotes
When I organized the SIGIR 2009 Industry Track last year, my goal was to meet the standard set by the CIKM 2008 Industry Event: a compelling set of presentations...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Global Facebook Usage
An interactive Tableau map that represents global Facebook usage. From ReadwriteWeb.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Very Cheap Touch Computing
Further move toward the commoditization of touch computing, a report of an approximate $35 touchscreen device from India. Like the $100 laptop, the ultimate availability...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Gestural Interaction System
In CACM: Note in particular the ability to support multiple users. " ... Fraunhofer FIT has developed a next generation touch system that enables users to interact...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Synthetic Organism Breakthrough
A breakthrough in synthetic organism? The consequences?
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squidbillies
Where do these TV shows come from? Follows the adventures of the Cuylers, an impoverished and dysfunctional family of anthropomorphic, air-breathing, redneck squids...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Mental Models: What's In Our Heads?
Yesterday I saw a video of Bj
From Schneier on Security
The Washington Post on the U.S. Intelligence Industry
The Washington Post has published a phenomenal piece of investigative journalism: a long, detailed, and very interesting expose on the U.S. intelligence industry...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Useful Science Rules in Context
In Language Log: A couple of 'rules of thumb' are repeated that I had heard of long ago that I have found to be useful. They were promoted by (legitimate) Nobel...
From Putting People First
Taking co-production into the mainstream
The conventional public services delivery model does not address underlying problems that lead many to rely on public services and thus carries the seeds of its...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Light Bulbs
A light bulb drawn over someone's head signifies creativity. Is it also the case that a light bulb can increase creativity?
From Schneier on Security
Internet Worm Targets SCADA
Stuxnet is a new Internet worm that specifically targets Siemens WinCC SCADA systems: used to control production at industrial plants such as oil rigs, refineries...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IPhone Style Kiosk: Utiqueshop
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of seeing a demonstration of an impressive and engaging wall-mounted kiosk from a company called Utiqueshop. Spoke to theira...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Buiness Intelligence Market Study
From Information Builders: Howard Dresner's extensive Wisdom of Crowds Business Intelligence Market Study.
From Computational Complexity
CRA Snowbird Part II
Considerable discussion about funding at CRA Snowbird. Ken Gabriel, Deputy Director of DARPA, talked about how DARPA is restructuring its programs to become more...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-07-23
WS-I Transitions To OASIS In the debate about open standards at the Cloud Summit on Tuesday, one speaker argued powerfully that standards follow innovation rather...
From My Biased Coin
"I Understood Your Talk"
Often, after I give a talk, the feedback I hear back is "I understood your whole talk," or something near that. I take it as a compliment (although I don't think...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson