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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
Trouble in Social Networks
Brand damaging activities in social networks. An update in Computerworld with a number of useful examples.
From Putting People First
Technology is giving us the means to co-create the future
Author, speaker and technologist Juliette Powell sees the true significance of social media technology in the new kinds of collaborations we are able to forge that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Touchless 3D Fingerprinting
Can we replace an old system with a much faster and reliable one? Good overview, with a number of advantages over the old fingerprinting method. Some start upsFlashscan...
From My Biased Coin
Harvard Finances
For those who are interested in such things, Harvard's latest financial report appears to be available. Rumors have it that the report was made (widely) public...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IFoundry
About IFoundry:' ... The Illinois Foundry for Innovation in Engineering Education (iFoundry) is transforming engineering education for the 21st century. Specifically...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-10-18
Where The Crooks Are What Tim said. I still believe that blogging creates no risk for a company that does not already exist becuase...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Life Blogging Camera to be Produced
It was implied in a previous post that Microsoft did not intend to have the life blogging camera Sensecam produced. It was just reported that the camera will be...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Customer Centricity at Kraft
In Consumer Goods Technology:Kraft, Harvard Business School Talk Customer CentricityAlarice Padilla October 5, 2009 - In today's challenging economy with unprecedented...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Looking at the Programming Language Options
It is interesting to follow the debate among college CS educators over time. At one point in the distant past, there was a large camp of CS teachers pushing for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Selling Online Books
Forthcoming: Google Editions. Now that Google has been given the open ability to scan books in the public domain, it is only natural that they are looking at ways...
From Wild WebMink
? Relaxed Saturday Links
The Official Simon's Cat Website My cat has her own web site. (tags: Cat Humour Comic Cartoon cats animation)Details...
From Putting People First
Myths and realities about women and mobile phones
Mobile phones have been a boon to developing countries and to social development. Access to mobiles may indeed allow for better medical information, change the...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Computers, Freedom and Privacy 2010 Conference
The Computers, Freedom and Privacy (CFP) Conference has just released its call for proposals for the 20th edition of the conference. It will take place June 15...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Experimenting With Mechanical Turk
A very good how-to article about the process of experimenting with Amazon's Mechanical Turk system. If you don't know about Mechanical Turk, it is one of the longest...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Remarkable Wind Story
Richard James sends this along: "...The extraordinary true story of a Malawian teenager who transformed his village by building electric windmills out of junk is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tesco's Wireless Item Finder
Storefrontbacktalk reports that Tesco has a system to let shoppers find items in its 3700 plus stores using their IPhones. But they are not providing local WiFi...
From Schneier on Security
The Commercial Speech Arms Race
A few years ago, a company began to sell a liquid with identification codes suspended in it. The idea was that you would paint it on your stuff as proof of ownership...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-10-16
ODF plugfest in Orvieto Another fine opportunity to get ODF interoperating as well as possible between different implementations...
From Computational Complexity