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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
Frito-Lay to Feature Ergonomic Checkout in its Innovation Center
This is new. I had thought there would be some complaints in self checkout, but the you always have to lift the heavy bags charcoal, or 24 packs of drnk out of...
From Wild WebMink
? On the term
I’ve been having a number of conversations in e-mail on the subject of open core business models. The problem that keeps coming up is that there are a range of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Walking Around in Proteins
Walking inside your data. I had a conversation with a guy from IBM about this kind of approach. He implemented a data walkaround in Second Life.Virtual Reality...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Buys Metaweb
In GigaOM: Google makes a big semantic acquisiton, buys Metaweb. " ... San Francisco-based Metaweb was founded by the widely admired Thinking Machines founder...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tableau Momentum Builds
I have now used Tableau Software's easy to use data visualization system for several years for a number of projects. It's a good approach to explore if you plan...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Symbol for the Rupee
Mark Perry reports on the development of a symbol for the Indian Rupee, from a competitive market for currency design.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Michael Osofsky on Innovation
Just brought to my attention: Michael Osofsky's blog musings on innovation, practice and theory. It is on my read.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
More Attendee Reflections on CS&IT
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From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Hawaiian Bobtail Squid
Symbiotic relationship between the Hawaiian bobtail squid and bioluminescent bacteria, with bonus security implications.
From Schneier on Security
Skype's Cryptography Reverse-Engineered
Someone claims to have reverse-engineered Skype's proprietary encryption protocols, and has published pieces of it. If the crypto is good, this is less of a big...
From Putting People First
Google knows your desires before you do
Google attempts to return relevant search results in the blink of an eye. But in future it could go one better, delivering search results to its users even before...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Little Orphan Computer Science
The never ending debate over where Computer Science fits in the curriculum continues. Mark Guzdial asks why computer science is not in the latest set of STEM standards...
From Computational Complexity
How I Find Homework Problems
What do you get out of this paragraph (from Charlie Stross' The Atrocity Archives via Daniel Lemire) The [Turing] theorem is a hack on discrete number theory that...
From My Biased Coin
Facebook Movie Preview
It's nice to see Harvard finally getting some recognition in the mainstream media, with the upcoming Facebook/Zuckerburg movie the Social Network (based on BenThe...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
A New Kind of Teacher
Last Saturday, the New York Times Magazine published the fourth installment in its “Smarter Than You Think” series, this one titled “Students, Meet your New Teacher...
From Putting People First
Content Strategy questions and answers
Content strategy is becoming a hot topic (and one I am greatly interested in). Last year, Kristina Halvorson of Brain Traffic published the book Content Strategy...
From Schneier on Security
The NSA's Perfect Citizen
In what creepy back room do they come up with these names? The federal government is launching an expansive program dubbed "Perfect Citizen" to detect cyber assaults...
From Wild WebMink
? OpenSolaris Governance
You may have seen some of the news reporting of the OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB) meeting that was held last Monday (I am an elected member of the Board). At...
From Wild WebMink
? United
I’m heading to California en route to OSCON (where I’ll be speaking on Wednesday at 5:20pm about open source continuity – use code os10fos to get a 20% discount...
From The Eponymous Pickle