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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 Putting People First
Paper: Mobile phone access and usage in Africa
Research ICT Africa!, a network of universities and research institutions from 19 African countries, has a site with some interesting research papers and presentations...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-04-19
Evidence: Mary Oliver My favourite poet has released another collection of poems - only in the US though. On order.Poetry Books...
From CSDiary
A Bumper Crop of New PhD Students
This is CMU’s Spring Carnival weekend, the biggest annual student event of the year, traditionally the “real” homecoming for alumni. As a racing fan, I love watching...
From insideHPC
Debugging whitepaper from
Chris Gottbrath from TotalView Technologies has just posted a new whitepaper [PDF] up at the TotalView site, “Deterministically Troubleshooting Network Distributed...
From The Noisy Channel
Is Differentiated Content Enough To Save Newspapers?
The Guardian headline sums it up: “Big newspaper sites ‘erode value of news’, says Sly Bailey“. Sly Bailey is the
From The Noisy Channel
Is Differentiated Content Enough To Save Newspapers?
The Guardian headline sums it up: “Big newspaper sites ‘erode value of news’, says Sly Bailey“. Sly Bailey is the
From The Eponymous Pickle
Agile Marketing Needed
Consider agile marketing." ... Though an overwhelming majority (88%) of global executives believe that organizational agility is important to business success,...
From Putting People First
Let them eat tweets
Virginia Heffernan writes in the New York Times Magazine on why Twitter is a trap. “These worries started to surface for me last month, when Bruce Sterling, the...
From The Noisy Channel
Plan to Attend SIGIR
SIGIR 2009 will be held in Boston, Massachusetts, at the Sheraton Boston Hotel and at Northeastern University. The conference will run from July 19-23, 2009. Even...
From The Noisy Channel
Plan to Attend SIGIR
SIGIR 2009 will be held in Boston, Massachusetts, at the Sheraton Boston Hotel and at Northeastern University. The conference will run from July 19-23, 2009. Even...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-04-17
Police delete London tourists' photos 'to prevent terrorism' The War on Tourism continues. (tags: Photography UK...
From insideHPC
Sun to IBM,
Various people are pointing to this, but I found it courtesy of Joe Landman. Evidently Bloomberg has people on the inside. From their most recent update Sun Microsystems...
From The Noisy Channel
AmazonFail = TaxonomyFail?
By now, #amazonfail seems like old news (yesterday’s detwitus?), though apparently Amazon’s PR folks are still doing damage control. But what intrigues me was something...
From The Noisy Channel
Booking it to the Finish Line
To my delight–not to mention the delight of my family, colleagues, and publisher–I’m almost done with the book! I went into this project suspecting that book writing...
From The Noisy Channel
Booking it to the Finish Line
To my delight–not to mention the delight of my family, colleagues, and publisher–I’m almost done with the book! I went into this project suspecting that book writing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Reality for Research
In Brandweek: A good overview of work that is underway in a number of companies. These methods " ... are now standard for the larger packaged goods firms like Procter...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM New Intelligence Video : Analytics
The IBM Smarter Planet program has a short video: New Intelligence, which is a good promotional piece for analytical methods. They seem to imply they inventedTheir...
From Wild WebMink
Friday links on April 17
If you lose your Amazon account, your Kindle loses functionality Well yes. This is the reason why, no matter how cool it may be to buy electronic books, the Kindle...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Electronic Shelf Labels, Again
More on Electronic Shelf Labels. I studied the issue of electronic shelf labels (ESL) nearly a decade ago and participated in several tests. If you have not looked...
From CSDiary