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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
Wolfram Alpha
A good overview of the state of WolframAlpha in MIT's TechnologyReview. I have taken a look at it and reviewed it several times since its release, previous posts...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Design a recommender system: they read your resume
Goodreads is a Social Web site about books. They need a recommender system. Thus, they issued a challenge: design their recommendation engine, and they will read...
From CSDiary
Watch Luis von Ahn on Nova scienceNow
PBS has posted the video from its Nova ScienceNow segment on Luis von Ahn.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
A Computer Science Honor Society: Is it Worth the Work??
Over the last couple of years, the question of whether CSTA should initiate an honor society for high school computer science students has been raised a number...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Buyology Inc Starts Up
Buyology Inc, an outgrowth and consulting extension of Martin Lindstrom's Neuromarketing work is now up and running. Their new web site has lots more information...
From Wild WebMink
Lula's Free Java Ring
The Brazilian economy is powered by the Java platform - even their new Free digital TV standard uses it. They took the decision to use Java for so much in partjoined...
From The Eponymous Pickle
1001 Inventions
Came upon an interesting book at the library. Libraries are still of value, they provide an alternate random encounter model for discovery. 1001 Inventions that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Optimization in the Enterprise
For many years my specialization in the enterprise was to optimize systems. We used many packages, up to including ones that dealt with very large problems ofLindo...
From Putting People First
Design ethnography and mood maps
Will Evans, principal, experience design for Twin Technologies, writes in a somewhat rambling post about the value of mood maps to document and map the emotional...
From Putting People First
Digital diaries
Celine Perin, design researcher at frog design, describes on Use8 what digital diaries are, and why this a great methodology for interactive, international user...
From Putting People First
The future of money
Stowe Boyd, an internationally recognised authority on social applications and their impact on business, media, and society, launched a new interview series examining...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wind Telecom and Netezza
Press release about WIND Telecom and Netezza. ' ... The Netezza system was specified and installed by Netezza partner ICare, a local data warehousing and BI specialist...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Barbarism?
Reading Mark Helprin's Digital Barbarism: A Writer's Manifesto. A good contrast to previously reviewed The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind, by...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-07-04
Fences in the ether: Brazil's proposed Internet laws Great analysis of the folly of the laws proposed in Brazil that makes President...
From CSDiary
Claytronics, Cars, and Princess Leia?
Like any research project at CMU Computer Science, the CMU-Intel Claytronics Project publishes lots of papers in research conferences and journals. The project...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Neuromarketing
Bruce Hall on NeuromarketingMakes the point that this adds to the existing rationally-directed methods, but not that NM can add a deeper and more complete dimension...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Column stores and row stores: should you care?
Most database users row-oriented databases such as Oracle or MySQL. In such engines, the data is organized by rows.
From The Eponymous Pickle
SEO Analysis Using Data Visualization
Nice little case study:SEO Keyword Analysis: How to Use Data Visualization to Make it Quick and Easy by Niels Hoven Do-it-yourself keyword strategy for under $10...
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