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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
UK Lifts Product Placement Ban
Apparently in the UK placed products on imported shows are often blurred. Inside the UK product placements are banned. The BBC reports that this placement ban is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Norman Borlaug Dies
We see that Norman Borlaug, father of the Green revolution, Nobel scientist, died yesterday at the age of 95. It is estimated that he has saved many millions of...
From Putting People First
Intel
In a two-part podcast Genevieve Bell, Intel Fellow and Director of the User Experience Group, discusses the intersection of technology and society, with a special...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Turing Test for Bots
Tech Review writes about fascinating work creating a test to determine if a bot is human. The original Turing Test came from a proposal by computing pioneer Alan...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Vintage Visualization
Mike Cristia of Market Intelligence Group (MIG), points me to a Flowingdata post on Vintage Infographics from the 1930s. Some nice examples and links to the whole...
From Apophenia
Sometimes I Feel Like a Bitch
For the most part, I'm a fuzzy lovable energetic creature (or at least I like to think so). But new technologies combined with information overload sometimes bring...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Stinky Squid
It's a mushroom: Pseudocolus fusiformis.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lindstrom Newsletter
Brand Futurist Martin Lindstrom now has his newsletter out. Lots of interesting branding and advanced marketing ideas and resources. Fun videos on the topic. Read...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Where do the best mathematicians come from?
Americans think that the best scientists come from their best universities.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Binary "Bits" For All!
In 1988 David Macaulay's classic The Way Things Work was published. In 1998, he followed up this very successful book with The New Way Things Work, which includes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
BI for the IPhone
Sy Truong, whose blog Becoming a SAS Programmer in the Pharmaceutical Industry, sends along a post: SAS iPhone App Architecture. This is a technical post for those...
From Schneier on Security
Schneier on "The Future of the Security Industry"
Here's a video of a talk I gave at an OWASP meeting in August.
From Computational Complexity
The Mystique of the Open Problem
The story goes that Andrew Wiles dreamt of proving Fermat's last theorem when he was a kid. No surprise since all of us math-loving kids dreamed of solving this...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter Value Strategy Working
P&G says that its value strategy is working and sales will recover this fall.
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAP and Retail Simulation
In a further indication of SAP's deeper interest in predictive analytics in retail, they have said they plan to acquire SAF (Simulation, Analysis and Forecasting...
From Schneier on Security
Eighth Anniversary of 9/11
On September 30, 2001, I published a special issue of Crypto-Gram discussing the terrorist attacks. I wrote about the novelty of the attacks, airplane security...
From Putting People First