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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 Noisy Channel
Marti Hearst
The Enterprise Search Summit is taking place in New York this week, and I was lucky to be able to attend Marti Hearst’s opening keynote this morning about designing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IdeaLab
Steve Rubel visits Idealab and discusses Tweetup.' ... TweetUp combines sophisticated relevance algorithms with a bidding system to raise your best tweets to the...
From My Biased Coin
Complexity of Distributed Systems, Market Crash Style
Apparently, the stock market crash of 5/6/10 was not, as originally thought, due to a "standard" human/computer error where someone meant to sell a million shared...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Atlas Category Management
More on TNS's Atlas Category simulation tool, Unique in its ability to predict the results of key merchandising decisions. I have discussed Atlas here a number...
From Schneier on Security
Biometric Wallet
Cool idea, or dumb idea? Its features include: Fingerprint access only Bluetooth enabled for notification alerts
From Wild WebMink
Apache
The Apache Software Foundation’s radical and exceptional transparency provides a lesson all organisations need to learn. Read about it on Simon Says…
From Putting People First
Philips Design
The latest issue of new value by design, the Philips Design newsletter, contains three short articles that sit closely to what we cover in this blog: Self Health...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Chinese researchers publish more research papers
Funding agencies in Canada seek to emulate American funding agencies by promoting excellence. What this means in concrete terms is that few professors get most...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Programming and Excel
Not everyone needs to be a programmer! You probably hear that a lot if you talk about trying to get more students to program. I know that I do. And of course there...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predictive Analytics in Retail
In the IBM Performance Perspectives Blog:What's in your basket? Predictive analytics for retail This is the first in a four-part series exploring the performance...
From Computational Complexity
Which Name Do You Play For?
A relative on Facebook posted the following note about baseball player Alex Rodriguez.He plays for the name on the back of the jersey [Rodriguez] and not the front...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Media Advertising Case Studies
From USA Today, a number of targeted social media advertising case studies. Useful for seeing the directions that companies are taking.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Coke's High Tech Mixing Machine
Late stage differentiation of Coca Cola products. ' ... Coke's new Freestyle machine is housed in a curved metal shell created by the designers of Ferrari race...
From The Eponymous Pickle
FMI Phone App
In a clever development this week's FMI (Food Marketing Institute) 2010 conference has constructed a free smartphone application supporting the event. I may be...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Assessment
Thanks to the hard work of the ACM Education Policy Committee and other organizations working to strengthen national policy support for computer science, there...
From Schneier on Security
SnapScouts
I sure hope this is a parody: SnapScouts Keep America Safe! Want to earn tons of cool badges and prizes while competing with you friends to see who can be the...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Acceptance rate versus impact
Should you attend the most selective school? Maybe not: Students who attended more selective colleges do not earn more than other students who were accepted and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Local Inventory NoWhere Close
In a previous post there was a mention of local inventory search, knowing where the inventory of a product may reside. Storefrontbacktalk has a post that suggests...
From The Eponymous Pickle