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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
Grand Unified Theory of AI
In MIT News, quite intriguing, though I don't quite understand how it can be applied immediately to real problems I am acquainted with. ' .. A new approach unites...
From The Noisy Channel
Guest Post: Information Retrieval Using a Bayesian Model of Learning and Generalization
Dinesh Vadhia, CEO and founder of “item search” company Xyggy, has been an active member of the Noisy Community for at least a year, and it is with pleasure that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Best of TDWI: Business Intelligence
Best of a number of good articles on Business Intelligence from TDWI. I have mentioned a few of these before, here they all in one piece. The download does require...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Videotaping the Shipment
In StorefrontBackTalk: Discussion of an Amazon patent that videotapes a shipment box as it is filled and sealed. Then attaching a link to that video clip to the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simulated Car Racing
From the University of Wurzburg, simulated car demolition derby using artificial intelligence controllers. Still a believer that there is value in using gaming...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Twitter Predicting Movie Box Office
Good overview of social media prediction opportunities, based on the HP social computing lab paper: Predicting the Future with Social Media. Of course a Twitter...
From My Biased Coin
Energy Sustainability
I spent an entertaining hour this afternoon listening to David MacKay of Cambridge (UK) give a talk about the Future of Energy here at Harvard. I've mentionedAmazon...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watching You Read
In the NYT: Theory of Mind and brain scanning, applied to fiction. Literary scholars turn to science.-
From The Eponymous Pickle
Magnets and Minds
From a friend. I agree this is scary. it is inevitable that as we know more about the functionality of the brain this kind of manipulation will have to be closely...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Everything Is Changing in CS Education
There seems to be a lot of agreement that we need to change the way we teach computer science, especially at the pre-collegiate level. Not complete unanimity of...
From Schneier on Security
iPhone Secret Decoder Ring
It'll protect your secrets from your kid sister, unless she's smarter than that. Looks cool, though.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mastering Argument is Discovery
In CIOInsight, a good piece on mastering the art of argument. '... Disagreements happen, but respecting all opinions and engaging in argument can lead to innovation...
From Wild WebMink
? Two Lessons For Survival
Complexity can't be scaled back, sugar is a toxin, and three short links.
From Schneier on Security
DHS Cybersecurity Awareness Campaign Challenge
This is a little hokey, but better them than the NSA: The National Cybersecurity Awareness Campaign Challenge Competition is designed to solicit ideas from industry...
From Computational Complexity
SIGACT Social Networking
STOC conference and hotel registration now live. Early registration deadline is April 30th. Registration for Complexity and Electronic Commerce coming soon. You...
From Putting People First
The impact of the Internet on institutions in the future
The latest Pew Research Center Internet & American Life Project report is out: “The Impact of the Internet on Institutions in the Future” surveys 895 tech experts...
From Putting People First
Mobilizing markets
The Winter 2009 issue of MIT’s Innovations Journal is focused on “Mobilizing Markets.” All contents are available online. Prerequisite to Prosperity Why Africa’s...
From Putting People First