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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 Computational Complexity
Possibly Recruits for the Polymath Primes Project
In the book The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat and other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks there is a true story about two twin brothers (John and Michael), both...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Policy Highlights from Communications of the ACM - September 2009 (Vol. 52, No. 9)
Below is a list of items with policy relevance from the September issue of Communications of the ACM. As always, much of the material in CACM is premium content...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tagging Visualizations Over Time
A bit dated, but research at Yahoo about image tag usage over time. Here is the full technical paper. Not sure if this has gone anywhere, if anyone knows do let...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rethinking the Long Tail
In Knowledge@Wharton: Re-thinking the long tail. ' ... a new research paper by Wharton professor Serguei Netessine and doctoral student Tom F. Tan challenges that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
E-Mail Cautionary Tale
In Slashdot a cautionary tale about how easy, cheap and relatively risk free it is to have third parties hack a public e-mail account. Have been involved in cases...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Relational databases: are they obselete?
Michael Stonebraker is predicting that the dominance of the generic relational database is coming to an end. Having recently founded several database companies,
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visualizing Global Brand Data
A very interesting visualization of global brand data, a mix of geographic, network and more typical business intelligence graphics. Probably not the simplest way...
From Computational Complexity
Announcing a New Blog: Silent Glen Speaks
There is another Theory Blogger: Silent Glen. How can a blogger by silent? Sounds like a contradiction in terms! Hope its not a contradiction since she is already...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simple Portfolio Analysis
Today I attended a webinar by Gary L. Lilien on teaching portfolio analysis using the GE/McKinsey approach. He is author of the book Marketing Engineering. Have...
From Schneier on Security
Printing Police Handcuff Keys
Using a 3D printer. Impressive. At the end of the day he talked the officers into trying the key on their handcuffs and
From Putting People First
Grameen Foundation: mHealth ethnography report
One of the projects of AppLab, the application laboratory of the Grameen Foundation, is focused on mobile technology for community health (MoTeCH) in Ghana: “Grameen...
From My Biased Coin
Random Musings for the Day
I like Daniel Lemire's post on "the truth" about research grants so much, I'm linking to it.Richard Lipton is taking bets on whether P = NP; well, not really,substantially...
From Putting People First
Mayo Clinic
This week the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation hosted Transform, a collaborative symposium on innovations in health care experience and delivery. The symposium...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Long Lasting Perfume Delivery
Procter & Gamble's Connect & Develop program requests input for technical solutions to long lasting perfume delivery system.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neuroscience Picks top Emmy Winners
Sands Research claims to have predicted the top Emmy Awards (three out of top five) with their EEG based NEF scores, details in post, plus links to their previous...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Report from the AZ Leadership Cohort
I am fortunate that my fellow Arizona representative on the Leadership Cohort, Renee Ciezki, is a friend from the same school district. Although this has probably...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neuromarketing Overview
From Kevin Randall at FastCompany: Neuromarketing Hope and Hype: 5 Brands Conducting Brain Research. Reasonably short, but necessarily incomplete overview of the...
From Computational Complexity
Fashionable Research
A student asks "How do you survive in the academic world if what you want to do is not fashionable?" You shouldn't necessarily focus your research on the currently...
From The Eponymous Pickle