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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
AnalyticBridge Newsletter
Once again, let me pass along the current AnalyticBridge newsletter, a good, socially enabled site on predictive analytics methods, meetings and other topics by...
From Computational Complexity
CCC deadline Dec 15, 2009! (not factorial)
Submissions to 25th CCC are due TOMORROW! (Actually it could be TOMORROW, TODAY, or IN THE PAST depending on when you read this.) Should you submit? If you have...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Telecommuting Teams
I was an early user of telecommuting and helped manage teams that used these concepts from the beginning. It's still a contentious concept within the enterprise...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Computing Our Children's Future
Reposted from the Huffington Post To the age-old question -- "What do you want to do when you grow up?" -- children today give many modern answers: "Help feed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Package Goods Online Spend
Good AdAge piece on the increasing use of online marketing in packaged goods.
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Matters Now
In Seth Godin's blog: What Matters Now, links to a free ebook from a number of authors, just started to browse. Provocative and worth looking at, agreeing and disagreeing...
From Schneier on Security
U.S./Russia Cyber Arms Control Talks
Now this interesting: The United States has begun talks with Russia and a United Nations arms control committee about strengthening Internet security and limiting...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-12-14
Body clock link to heart disease Another vote against being a frequent traveller. (tags: Health Heart Travel BBC...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Is Knowledge and Analysis Overrated?
From the Harvard Business Org Blogs. by ' ... Jeffrey M. Stibel is an entrepreneur, a brain scientist, and the author of Wired for Thought: How the Brain Is Shaping...
From Putting People First
Anthropology Matters
The latest issue of Anthropology Matters contains an interesting article on the use of mobile phones in Africa: Being cool or being good: researching mobile phones...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Architecture for Nano Assembly
In the CACM: Blueprints for Self-Assembly "Self-assembly, by which atoms, molecules, or other nanoscale components spontaneously organize into something useful,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
American Information Diet
A graphic describing the US information diet at 34 gigabytes per day. -
From Schneier on Security
Me Speaking on "The Future of Privacy"
Video of the talk I gave to the Open Right Group last week in London.
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-12-13
Flight attendant photographs obese passenger / safety hazard Wow. Just, wow. (tags: Travel Health)Mandelson's Power...
From The Noisy Channel
Karaoke: A Hotbed for Micro-IR?
I’m a karaoke junkie and proud to admit it. But one of the challenges I regularly face, especially when I go to an unfamiliar karaoke joint, is finding a song I...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gifts and The Knowledge Problem
Of interest, though its not as deep as I first thought: ' ... The problem of buying good presents for other people, even people you supposedly know well, illustrates...
From Putting People First
Presentations of the Behavior, Energy and Climate Change conference
Presentations are now available of last month’s Behavior, Energy & Climate Change Conference, which took place in Washington, DC. The BECC conference focused on...
From Putting People First
iPhone users are delusional, consultants say
Strand Consult suggests that iPhone users are suffering from a form of Stockholm Syndrome–the condition in which the kidnapped begin to show loyalty to their kidnappers...
From Putting People First
Book: Ethnography and the Corporate Encounter
Ethnography and the Corporate Encounter Reflections on Research in and of Corporations Edited by Melissa Cefkin Berghahn Books (July 2009) Hardcover, 253 pages Businesses...
From The Eponymous Pickle