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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 Schneier on Security
CIA Invests in Social-Network Datamining
From Wired: In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is putting cash into Visible Technologies, a software firm that specializes...
From Computational Complexity
FOCS Day 1
Michele and Michael continue their guest posts from Atlanta.The first day of FOCS is officially over. 8 sessions, 26 talks and 270 proceedings pages have already...
From The Noisy Channel
Google Experimenting With Social Search
Google may be an also-ran in the social networking market with its Brazil-centric Orkut service, but that hasn’t stopped the search giant from adding social features...
From Putting People First
Stop your search engines
Peggy Orenstein forced herself offline, and reflects in the New York Times Magazine whether this is the path to true knowledge: “Not long ago, I started an experiment...
From Putting People First
Memory and forgetting in the digital age
Yadin Dudai writes in the New Scientist on two books on memory and forgetting in the digital age — Total Recall: How the e-memory revolution will change everything...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neuroscience and Workplace Systems
An interesting example of what goes on in workplace contexts and how people interact with artificial systems like computers and avatars. What would this imply...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unilever Consumer Contact Center
In Consumergoods Magazine: ' Unilever Unveils Online Self-Service Platform Unilever goes live with the Astute Solutions' RealDialog Self-Service solution on its...
From Computational Complexity
FOCS Day 0
Alas, I'm not in Atlanta but in New York City for another meeting. Something different this time--FOCS through the eyes of two Northwestern students, Michele Budinich and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Marketing Neuromarketing
Influencing the Decisionmaker with Neuromarketing. Short PR piece from Zenzi.
From Return 42;
The Way Nature Designs, Or Doesn't
Often, I do not feel like agreeing with Linus Torvalds. This is not because he is not right, but because of the very opinionated, sometimes even stubborn way he...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Perception in the Brain's Clock
Fascinating piece in New Scientist about how the brain's clock changes our perception and view of reality. Mentioned is the classic 'wagon wheel illusion', ' .....
From Apophenia
Some thoughts on Twitter vs. Facebook Status Updates
The functional act of constructing a tweet or a status update is very similar. Produce text in roughly 140 characters or less inside a single line text box and...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-10-25
ZFS for MacOS X The power of open source is that, when one door closes, anyone can open another one. (tags: OpenSource...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blob Robot
IRobot, best known for its Roomba floor sweep ing robot, has developed a prototype robot for DARPA that can fit into tight spaces via its morphable form. Robotic...
From Wild WebMink
We Have An Ombudsman
Just a quick reminder to anyone who believes Sun has done something bad in the community; we do have a community ombudsman service. Send e-mail to ombudsman@sun...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Media Counter
A display of changes in social media over time. The specifics are not that useful, but it is an impressive representation of how many people are engaging with social...
From The Eponymous Pickle
ROI of Data Mining
A good post on the high ROI for data mining in innovative organizations. Contains a good set of examples that have worked in this space that are instructive. It...
From My Biased Coin
Major (and Minor) Happenings : Gu-Yeon Wei
I'm thrilled to announce that my colleague Gu-Yeon Wei, in EE here at Harvard, received tenure. I feel this is worth a mention because:1) Strangely, people sometimes...
From The Eponymous Pickle