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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
Overcome Media Fragmentation with Next-Generation Marketing Planning Tools
Upcoming webinar of interest, given on March 18, 2010, click through for more information, times and registration:Program: Consumer Goods Technology webCONNECTIONseries...
From Schneier on Security
Terrorists Prohibited from Using iTunes
The iTunes Store Terms and Conditions prohibits it: Notice, as I read this clause not only are terrorists -- or at least those on terrorist watch lists -- prohibited...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SNCR Research Briefing
' ... Please join the Society for New Communications Research, Middleberg Communications and Marketwire for a complimentary research briefing on February 25thRegister...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Poka-Yoke
We often spoke about Poka-Yoke in the enterprise. Also known as fail-safing. Designing the process so it is impossible or much harder to make big errors. Despite...
From Putting People First
The future of reading
Josh Quittner of Fortune Magazine reflects on how tables will change magazines, books and newspapers. “In fact, for the past year I’ve been pushing the theory that...
From Computational Complexity
STOC and More
The Snows of Maryland are keeping Bill away from this blog again. Here in Chicago we deal with snow (and even earthquakes) in stride--my kids still have yet toaccepted...
From Wild WebMink
? Testing Times
Freedom In the Cloud: Software Freedom, Privacy, and Security for Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing See/hear Eben Moglen's useful discussion...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Small Basic 0.8 Now with Silverlight
There is a new version of Small Basic out this week. More details about it on the Small Basic blog but briefly: This release features: Addition...
From Putting People First
Dan Ariely: hidden forces that shape our decisions
In an interview on the website of Forbes India, the renowned behavioural economist Dan Ariely talks about some of the hidden forces that shape our decisions. “For...
From Putting People First
Some ditch social networks to reclaim time, privacy
As the social networking train gathers momentum, some riders are getting off. USA Today reports. “Their reasons run the gamut from being besieged by online “friends”...
From Putting People First
Reflecting on the Interaction10 conference
Both Jon Kolko (frog design) and Rob Tannen (Bresslergroup) reflect on their experience at the Interaction10 conference that took place last weekend in Savannah...
From Putting People First
Live at Interaction
Niklas Wolkert & Brad Nunnally round up their reporting on Johnnyy Holland on the Interaction10 conference in Savannah, Georgia – this time focused on the third...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Why do People Share Information?
A topic we studied in the enterprise. This NYTimes article presents some non-obvious answers. Because we wrote our own e-mail system in the 70s, we had lots of...
From My Biased Coin
Recent Award for Network Coding
I opened the January issue of IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and saw (what is probably old news to everyone) that Tracey Ho, Muriel Medard, Ralf Kotter...
From My Biased Coin
Guest Post: Giorgos Zervas from WSDM, Part 3
I am back from WSDM and I have to say all in all it was a great experience. I think my talk went fairly well although I can see some ways in which it could have...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Buzz
Google gets a social networking component within Gmail. ' ... Specifically, Buzz has been designed to help users deal with the often massive amount of information...
From Computational Complexity
What is an Elementary Proof?
What is an Elementary Proof? Different things in different contexts. An Elementary Proof is one that does not use Complex Analysis. Basic Calculus is fine. This...
From The Eponymous Pickle
BI Software Making Money
Nice overview piece on business intelligence by Doug Lautzenheiser:BI Software Makes Money Business Intelligence isn't just about seeing how many cans of beans...
From Schneier on Security