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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
Wal-Mart Supports Smart Card Payments
This could result in considerable changes in US retail payment systems. The commonly used 'signature-based' methods were cited as a waste of time. Wal-Mart to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Biosimilars
Bain writes on Biosimilars, a term I have not heard for a while, though it came up in research work.Biosimilars: A marathon, not a sprint for pharmaby Bain partners...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-05-21
How to hide OpenOffice.org lines if a field is empty I have been looking for the way to do this for ages and ages, thanks to Solveig for the tip. (tags: OpenOffice...
From Schneier on Security
Automobile Security Analysis
"Experimental Security Analysis of a Modern Automobile," by a whole mess of authors: Abstract: Modern automobiles are no longer mere mechanical devices; they are...
From Computational Complexity
The End of Numb3rs
Sunday marks the end of the TV series that deals with the numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42. Monday marks the end of the TV series called "24". But lets talk about ...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Sorting is fast and useful
I like to sort things. If you should learn one thing about Computer Science is that sorting is fast and useful. Here’s a little example. You want to check quickly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Open Innovation Strategy at Kraft
In Consumergoods Technology: New open innovation strategy at Kraft.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
CS CAREER PROJECTIONS
We all hear the stories about how the CS job market has turned around (if it ever really was on a downward slope). But, when talking to students or their parents...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Feedback Before Assessment
Continuing my reflections on Ken Bain's What the Best College Teachers Do (started here), I wanted to touch on a couple of things in the chapter on preparing to...
From Schneier on Security
Detecting Browser History
Interesting research. Main results: [...] We analyzed the results from over a quarter of a million people who ran our tests in the last few months, and found...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter Online Store Open to Public
After months of testing P&G's online store is now open to the public. ' ... Procter & Gamble Co. said Wednesday the "eStore" is up and running for the generalYou...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Diving with Mathematica
Short article from the Wolfram blog about doing data analysis and visualization using Mathematica. The wealth of capabilities in Mathematica are considerable,...
From Computational Complexity
Teaching for the first time: SUBRUK's story
(Guest Post by Subrahmanyam Kalyanasundaram) My First-time Teaching Experience. Background: This spring semester, here at Georgia Tech, I got the opportunity...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-05-20
jclouds I heard about this project at the Open Cloud Meetup in San Francisco last week. It is an abstraction layer for cloud computing, allowing you to write apps...
From Schneier on Security
Militarized Marine Mammals
Dolphine and sea lions: A Navy seal - actually a sea lion - took less than a minute to find a fake mine under a pier near San Francisco's AT&T Park. A dolphin...
From The Noisy Channel
Elastic Lists for Faceted Search
If you like faceted search and are interested in design patterns for it, I encourage you to check out Moritz Stefaner’s work on elastic lists. Here is his description...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Virtual Mirror
In StoreFrontBackTalk: Evan Schuman on Wal-Mart's virtual makeover effort. We experimented with this concept in-store and in-home for a dozen years, in a number...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Prediction APIs
Google has announced the availability of Machine Prediction APIs. Google is well known for AI based applications. This link to their machine learning capabilities...
From The Eponymous Pickle