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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
How Did We Get Mobile?
A short slideshow on the history of mobile communications. A number of interesting milestones I had not heard of.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bio Detector
A device developed at Lawrence Livermore Labs that can scan for many viruses and bacteria.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Foursquare and Newspapers
In Gigaom: Will the Foursquare location and reward idea help newspapers? ' ... The Journal announced today that readers can get news and reviews about local spots...
From Wild WebMink
? WebM Data Points
An analysis of WebM and its patent risk Carlo demonstrates that On2 must clearly have analysed the patent context for VP8 since so many of the “sub-optimal choices”...
From Computational Complexity
Parallel Thinking
Guy Blelloch from CMU gave a distinguished talk last week at Northwestern on Parallel Thinking, a take on the Computational Thinking pagadigm from his past and...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Microsoft Institutes for Education Leaders
IF you have missed the previous Microsoft Institutes for Education Leaders in the past there are a new set of events now scheduled. I expect that more will be added...
From Putting People First
Growing up online
In Growing Up Online, the American public affairs series FRONTLINE takes viewers inside the very public private worlds that kids are creating online, raising important...
From Putting People First
How social mood moves the world
Why do share prices, skirt lengths, even the state of the European Union, fluctuate so wildly? It’s down to social mood, says John Casti, and we must heed its messages...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Martin Gardner Dies
Its rare that I do an obituary here, but a particularly inspirational figure to me, Martin Gardner, Puzzler and Polymath, has died at the age of 95. His NYT obituary...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 24 May 2010
I pretty much took last week off from blogging. I sort of needed a break and since they were migrating this and many other blogs to a new updated blogging engine...
From Schneier on Security
Scene from an Airport
I've gotten to the front of the security line and handed the TSA officer my ID and ticket. TSA Officer: (Looks at my ticket. Looks at my ID. Looks at me. Smiles...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Location Based Services Revenue
Good piece in E-Commerce Times on charting a revenue stream for location based services. A place I have been examining.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Print Ad Database
A new research database that looks at the relationship of what was done in print and what it achieved based on specific variables. Though this is old tech, print...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Supermarket Space Allocation
In Progressive Grocer: An old problem that we started to look at in terms of optimization starting in the 70s. In recent years increased computing power and better...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Media for Product Launch
The use of social media for new initiatives. Brand Week has a list of a number of recent examples. To this I say, why not do this in addition to other methods?...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of May 24
May 25 Meeting: The Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee of the Department of Homeland Security will meet. 12:30 p.m., Harding Hall, 710 North Capitol...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Collective Intelligence by Retailers
Retailers sharing their collective intelligence. ' ... Gartner analysts Mick MacComascaigh and Whit Andrews recently released a study, "Leading Websites Will Use...
From Schneier on Security
Alerting Users that Applications are Using Cameras, Microphones, Etc.
Interesting research: "What You See is What They Get: Protecting users from unwanted use of microphones, cameras, and other sensors," by Jon Howell and Stuart Schechter...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-05-24
To Microsoft, Open Source means "Windows Encumbered" Just because Microsoft is busily embracing open source, that doesn't mean they have any interest in software...
From Computational Complexity