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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 …
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links for 2009-05-10
New Pattern Found in Prime Numbers Fascinating, and now it's discovered so obvious you wonder why no-one else has observed it before...
From Putting People First
Journal of Business Strategy on design innovation
A special issue of Journal of Business Strategy on
From The Noisy Channel
Designing for Faceted Search
While I was inundated with conferences a couple of weeks ago, I missed s a nice article by Stephanie Lemieux at User Interface Engineering (a site I recommend in...
From The Noisy Channel
Designing for Faceted Search
While I was inundated with conferences a couple of weeks ago, I missed s a nice article by Stephanie Lemieux at User Interface Engineering (a site I recommend in...
From insideHPC
Shareholders file suit to block Oracle purchase, Sun fears it bribed foreign
Sun gave the SEC some bad news on Friday. Computerworld is reporting that in a recent SEC filing Sun reveals that 3 different lawsuits have been filed by shareholders...
From The Noisy Channel
The Twouble with Twitter Search
There has been a flurry of reports about Twitter search–whether about Twitter’s plans to improve their search functionality or about alternative ways to search...
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The Twouble with Twitter Search
There has been a flurry of reports about Twitter search–whether about Twitter’s plans to improve their search functionality or about alternative ways to search...
From The Eponymous Pickle
First Experience with WolframAlpha
Yesterday I finally got early access to WolframAlpha. I understand it will be coming out publicly in the coming week(s). It is being positioned as '... Making...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Student Speaks Out About Computer Science Curriculum
CSTA has spent the last several years arguing for rigorous computer science courses in high school, for emphasizing critical, computational thinking skills, and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dating Sites and Smell
In Discovery. An approach that makes sense, but without a practical aroma interface, difficult to implement: " ... Two companies, Basisnote and Scientific Match...
From Putting People First
Design and ethnography at a ubiquitous computing conference
One of the sessions at UbiComp 2008, the Tenth International Conference on Ubiquitous computing (Seoul, Korea), was devoted to design and ethnography. The four...
From The Noisy Channel
What Should I Say About Social Search?
I’ll be at the Enterprise Search Summit in New York next week, participating on a panel Tuesday morning to discuss “Emergent Social Search Experience”. Our game...
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What Should I Say About Social Search?
I’ll be at the Enterprise Search Summit in New York next week, participating on a panel Tuesday morning to discuss “Emergent Social Search Experience”. Our game...
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More Thoughts on Image Retrieval
After my recent posts about Google’s similarity browsing for images, a colleague reached out to me to educate me about some of the recent advances in image retrieval...
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More Thoughts on Image Retrieval
After my recent posts about Google’s similarity browsing for images, a colleague reached out to me to educate me about some of the recent advances in image retrieval...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shoppers need Deadlines
In the Atlantic: Shoppers need Deadlines too, on promotions and gift-cards and related research.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Good Twitter Overview
Karel Vredenburg of IBM provides a good adult overview of Twitter behavior. What it is, how people are using it, and what they think about it. He got most of these...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Mechanical Turk Resource Center
After hearing little from Amazon's Mechanical Turk system for some time, I just received a note that they were establishing a resource center. This is an attempt...
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