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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
AT&T vs Verizon Visualization
It particularly attracted me because it dealt with maps and visualization of data. You have seen the ads if you watch any TV or use the Internet. Dueling mobile...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neuromarketing in Neuromarketer
In Chiefmarketer, on neuromarketing. What the Human Brain Means to Your Campaign.-
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-11-28
EC reshuffle bumps Kroes out of antitrust seat It's more than a "reshuffle" - Baroso has built an entirely new structure for the...
From Wild WebMink
? Thanks For The Music
So you got through (or, if your not from the US, ignored) Thanksgiving and Black Friday, how about some free music? It's on my personal blog...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Black Friday Crashes
Evan Schuman reports on a number of e-commerce crashes in StoreFrontBackTalk. Not unexpected as we move online.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kitchen Computer 1969
I recently posted about a 'home system' being advertised by Verizon. Part of our innovation center research was to understand how specialized systems in a home...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Redlaser Scanner Re-look
Redlaser has just issued an update for their IPhone barcode reader. They say it is faster than the previous version. I uploaded it and tested it on a dozen or so...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Run-length encoding (part 2)
(This is a follow-up to my previous blog post.) Any run-length encoding requires you to store the number of repetitions. In my example, AAABBBBBZWWK becomes 3A-5B...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Signatures of Consciousness
In the Edge: Signatures of Consciousness. Very interesting progress: Stanislas Dehaene writes:' ... For the past twelve years my research team has been using...
From Schneier on Security
Fear and Public Perception
This 1996 interview with psychiatrist Robert DuPont was part of a Frontline program called "Nuclear Reaction." He's talking about the role fear plays in the perception...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Teaching Computer Science Concepts
I developed the below material for a workshop I gave to computer science teaching assistants today on how to teach computer science concepts. The workshop washttp...
From Wild WebMink
? Protecting Rights
No, ACTA Secrecy Is Not 'Normal' -- Nor Is It A 'Distraction' ACTA secrecy is in fact a cynical game being played by the analogue...
From Putting People First
Nokia on life among the clouds
Nafid Imran Ahmed of the Bangladeshi newspaper The Daily Star was just at “The Way We Live Next 3.0″ event in Helsinki and reports on the company’s vision of the...
From Putting People First
Terry Winograd video interview
Terry Winograd, the famous human-computer interaction specialist, was interviewed for Digital Revolution (working title), an open source documentary, due for transmission...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Solicitation of Nominations for the Council of the Computing Community Consortium
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Analytics Illegal?
Google Analytics illegal, say German personal data protection analysts.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Plant Social Life
This is not in the normal realm of what I write about, but I am an amateur botanist and all things botanic do interest me. It is also an interesting lesson in experimentation...
From Putting People First
Beyond the experience: In search of an operative paradigm for the industrialisation of services
Nicola Morelli (blog), an associate professor at the School of Architecture and Design at Aalborg University in Denmark, reflects on the two inspirations for a...
From Schneier on Security