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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
IBM's Watson Natural Language System
In Mindhacks: Information about IBM's Watson system, which is designed to analyze and answer natural language queries. Also points to a NYT article on the topic...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Becoming a Design Leader
Thoughts on becoming a design leader, by David Sherwin. Nicely put. In the Design Mind blog.
From My Biased Coin
ISIT Day 2 (2010)
First, finishing up day 1, the banquet was, as expected, a fairly nondescript affair involving chicken of some sort, which I happily got to spend with a group of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Screen Games
Giant Screen social games at events, via Springwise. Why not done remotely as well? I saw a simpler example on the Lake Geneva fountain a number of years ago.
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Variable Sun
In an earlier academic life experience I did sun modeling. This field has made considerable strides over the years. I am no longer involved with the technologies...
From Putting People First
UXnet disbanded
Louis Rosenfeld, president of the Board of Directors of UXnet, announced last night that the user experience network is being disbanded: “On behalf of UXnet
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: LOLSquid
It's supposed to be a classic, but I've never seen it before.
From Schneier on Security
Remote Printing to an E-Mail Address
This is cool technology from HP: Each printer with the ePrint capability will be assigned its own e-mail address. If someone wants to print a document from an...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The fallacy of absolute numbers
I often come across the following type of arguments in research papers: You could save 3 bits of storage for every value in your database. Surely that’s irrelevant...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visual Concept Search Solved?
From a paper by Cees Snoek and Arnold Smeulders of the University of Amsterdam, suggests that the machine understanding of images is within reach. Minimal abstract...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Critical Thinking
Friday is not the day to talk about thinking. I think a lot of people in general and students in particular are looking to stop thinking right about now. But critical...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nestle Supermarket Barge
Had heard of this before but only briefly... a novel idea which uses a barge on tributaries of the Amazon river in Brazil to engage truly emerging markets. Much...
From The Eponymous Pickle
FMI Revamps Website
FMI provides excellent technical information, over the years have been to a number of their conferences: FMI (Food Marketing Institute) has updated its website,...
From Schneier on Security
The Continuing Incompetence of Terrorists
The Atlantic on stupid terrorists: Nowhere is the gap between sinister stereotype and ridiculous reality more apparent than in Afghanistan, where it's fair toPortrait...
From Wild WebMink
? BCS Members: Vote Now
If you’re a BCS Member or Fellow you’ve received a voting pack in the mail that needs your attention. Please vote this weekend so that there’s no risk of missing...
From The Eponymous Pickle