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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
Users
The Nordic Innovation Centre just published a report on the role of user-driven innovation in the growing Nordic sports equipment industry. Not only on how users...
From Putting People First
Yahoo looks to improve search experience
The Mercury News reports on how Yahoo believes it can build its search audience by focusing on the user “experience,” rather than viewing search as a raw data query...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Google Sketchup
New Sketchup version includes a number of useful changes. Remarkable package used briefly for a project.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Five Trends in BI
Good overview piece:Five Trends Changing the Face of BI Predictive analytics, agile development, user-centric business intelligence and improvements in visualization...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: 20-Foot Squid Caught in the Gulf of Mexico
First one sighted in the Gulf since 1954: The new specimen, weighing 103 pounds, was found during a preliminary survey of the Gulf during which scientists hope...
From Computational Complexity
Inspiring a Love of Math
A reader writes I come to you by way of your computational complexity blog. I get that there is some really good stuff there, but frankly don’t understand about...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Inducing Innovation with Prizes
The awarding of the $1 million Netflix Prize this week reopens an interesting bigger question:
From The Eponymous Pickle
Aggregating the Conversation
Godin's Squidoo 'Brands in Public' aims to aggregate the conversation, then you pay for some control. Examining. Site here:' ... Brands in Public is a collection...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-09-25
UK government ignoring own rules on open source With Tom Watson gone and his former staff apparently reassigned, this comes asGovernment...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-09-25
UK government ignoring own rules on open source With Tom Watson gone and his former staff apparently reassigned, this comes asGovernment...
From Putting People First
Max Mara launches new website, designed by Experientia
Unfortunately we cannot talk about most of the work we do at Experientia unless the final product gets launched. But there are these nice moments when we can. Although...
From Schneier on Security
Texas Instruments Signing Keys Broken
Texas Instruments' calculators use RSA digital signatures to authenticate any updates to their operating system. Unfortunately, their signing keys are too short...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Look at Clario Analytics as a Service
As part of a larger BI package exploration I took a look at Clario Analytics SaaS (Software as a service). You start by uploading your data via a secure FTP client...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Personal Mobility
Honda has a Segway-like, unicycle form personal mobility device called the U-3X in the works that is more remarkable looking than the Segway. No specific dates...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
FCC Will Tackle Net Neutrality
Earlier this week Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski announced his intention to establish an expanded definition of net neutrality to...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The most important Theoretical Computer Science problem is inconsequential
Some consider the P = NP problem to be the most important Theoretical Computer Science problem. It asks whether all problems whose solution can be verified quickly...
From Schneier on Security
The Onion on Security
"Authorities Called in to Examine Suspicious-Looking Ham."
From Computational Complexity