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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 …
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Gartner's Hype Cycle Indicators
Mark Montgomery points me to this image of the Gartner Hype Cycle Chart. Just something I was looking for a while back. Thanks.-
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Optimism Bias
Dan Ariely on The Curious Paradox of Optimism Bias. Also in Business Week.
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Pushing 3-D TV
From Knowledge@Wharton. How do you push 3D TV? Use an upcoming 3D movie that the studio says will be a blockbuster. Still, the technical quality has to be there...
From CSDiary
A Transition
I’m writing today from Boston, having just wrapped up a week at the annual DARPA ISAT retreat at Woods Hole. It was really an exciting week, with lot of people...
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Now You See it
In the midst of reading Stephen Few's: Now You See It: Simple Visualization Techniques for Quantitative Analysis. So far very nice, reminds me of Tufte's work,his...
From CERIAS Blog
More customer disservice
I have a Facebook account. I use it as a means to communicate little status updates with many, many friends and acquaintances while keeping up to date (a little)...
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Semantic Web and Kyield
Long-time correspondent Mark Montgomery writes in SemanticWeb. Plus more about Kyield. ' ... Is your enterprise getting smarter? Shouldn
From Return 42;
The other side of the table: John Langford
Time for another issue of The other side of the table. This time taking place on the opposite chair: John Langford. John Langford is a senior researcher/doctorYahoo...
From Return 42;
On Source Code Annotations
"The best comments aid the understanding of a program by briefly pointing out salient details or by providing a larger-scale view of the proceedings." The...
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Video in Paper Magazines
Much in the news, the addition of chips in paper magazines which can present up to 40 minutes of images or videos on a small cellphone-size display. Appears to...
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Numenta: Modeling Based on the Neocortex
I was prompted by client discussions to look again at the Numenta site recently. I previously wrote about Jeff Hawkins' book: On Intelligence and Numenta's early...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
FCC Seeks Comments on Definition of Broadband
As part of the National Broadband Plan that is within the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) seeks "tailored comment...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-08-21
Health Check: Mono - Too much monkey business? Very interesting overview of the story of Mono and Miguel's role in it. If you've...
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Update on WolframAlpha
Stephen Wolfram gives an update on the evolution of WolframAlpha. Played with it for a while and did see some interesting results at times, but too often it just...
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Kroger, Unilever Partner for Digital Coupons
Kroger is promoting a partnership with Unilever in which shoppers can browse an online catalog of exclusive coupons and download offers identified by their loyalty...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
The 2009 International Olympiad in Informatics
I recently had the pleasure of attending the 21st International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI), held in Plovdiv, Bulgaria from August 8th to 15th. The IOI brings...
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