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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
NEC Pennny Tags
I have been long involved with the exploration of RFID tags in retail. Now NEC is indicating that they have developed the long desired passive RFID tags that could...
From The Noisy Channel
Book. Is. Done.
I couldn’t think of a better way to start a holiday weekend than by uploading the revised chapters of my faceted search book to the publisher. It was the first–and...
From The Noisy Channel
Book. Is. Done.
I couldn’t think of a better way to start a holiday weekend than by uploading the revised chapters of my faceted search book to the publisher. It was the first–and...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
A researcher
I love gardening. I get good results too. However, my wife is very critical of my techniques.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Wisconsin Leadership Cohort Update
Hello from Wisconsin, land of Harleys, cheese, breweries and great ethnic festivals! As part of our work on the CSTA Leadership Cohort, Sarah Huibregtse and I...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Twitter Shopping Site
From Storefrontbacktalk: Twitter-Only Shopping Site Gets $4.7 Million Investment. Evan Schuman provides some interesting views of the funding of the idea." .....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Netezza CIO Wins CIO Innovation Award
Justin Lindsey, CTO, Netezza, Named 2009 CIO Innovation Award Winner at 6th MIT Sloan CIO Symposium. ' ... Lindsey is the CTO of Netezza, which develops database...
From The Noisy Channel
Data.gov
When I first heard that Vivek Kundra was on the short list to be the CTO of the United States, I was very excited about the possibility that he would implement...
From The Noisy Channel
Data.gov
When I first heard that Vivek Kundra was on the short list to be the CTO of the United States, I was very excited about the possibility that he would implement...
From The Noisy Channel
Is Google Conjuring a
Alex Chitu at the unofficial Google Operating System blog reports that: Gmail’s code reveals an upcoming feature called “magic inbox” or “icebox inbox”, which is...
From The Noisy Channel
Is Google Conjuring a
Alex Chitu at the unofficial Google Operating System blog reports that: Gmail’s code reveals an upcoming feature called “magic inbox” or “icebox inbox”, which is...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-05-21
Slow loris loves getting tickled Here's how to keep your slow loris happy. (tags: Loris OpenSolaris video YouTube...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Building Leadership from Within
A Fortune piece on P&G's leadership strategy. How will this assure effective transition of leadership? ' ... What makes Lafley so confident is a rigorous leadership...
From The Noisy Channel
Google Suggests
I haven’t seen this in my own browser yet, but MG Siegler at TechCrunch reports that Google Suggest has added advertising (see Google’s official post here). It...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Discovery Systems that Check Facts
Good piece from IEEE Computer that looks at the concept of discovery systems. This type of AI system constructs hypotheses from raw data presented and then continues...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pringles Lose Appeal
An appeals court has argued against them, Pringles owe VAT tax. Via Richard James. ' ... Procter & Gamble will be forced to pay tens of millions of pounds in VAT...
From Putting People First
Science alone will not save us
Changing behaviour will be as vital as new technologies in tackling climate change. So where is the funding for linguists, anthropologists and sociologists? Tariq...
From Putting People First
Portfolios of the Poor: Financial diaries of the bottom billion
Portfolios of the Poor: How the World’s Poor Live on $2 a Day by Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford, Orlanda Ruthven Princeton University Press Hardcover...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog