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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 Noisy Channel
Something Different from Google New York
Earlier this week, I mentioned that my colleagues here at Google New York were working cool stuff. Today some of them officially blogged about it! Check out today’s...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
ACM Education Policy Committee and USACM Offer Support for COMPETES Reauthorization Bill
The House Science and Technology Committee recently marked up a bill to reauthorize the America COMPETES Act. In recognition of this effort, the ACM Education...
From Computational Complexity
What did he know and when did he know it?
Sometimes you learn a theorem in your academic career far later than you should have. Here are some examples. I didn't know the classic upper bounds on the higher...
From The Noisy Channel
Peter Morville
This morning’s Enterprise Search Summit keynote was by Peter Morville, who has written a number of best-selling books about information architecture. I’ve known...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Measuring Likes in Facebook
A curious piece in AdAge about measurement of affinities to products in Facebook. Does liking this, or liking that create an obvious connection for targeted advertisement...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sands Research Reports EEG Breakthrough
An intriguing development that includes both speed and coverage, remains to be seen what this implies for data that can drive neuromarketing conclusions from Sands...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Braincast
Jerry Michalski, who we often had in at the enterprise, does his first braincast. We explored some of his methods of retrieving information using a method called...
From Schneier on Security
"If You See Something, Say Something"
That slogan is owned by New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority (the MTA). Since obtaining the trademark in 2007, the authority has granted permission to use...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Join the Campaign! Tweet and Blog for Ed Tech May 12 2010
Things are a little scary in Washington DC these days. From the ISTE Campaign! Tweet and Blog for Ed Tech The 2011 federal budget eliminates funding for Enhancing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mass Customization
Upcoming Mass Customization event at MIT. And more on mass customization.
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Connecting Computer Science
I taught the first lecture of my first undergrad course last night. As I've mentioned before, it's a class called Introduction to Computers for Arts and Social...
From The Noisy Channel
Marti Hearst
The Enterprise Search Summit is taking place in New York this week, and I was lucky to be able to attend Marti Hearst’s opening keynote this morning about designing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IdeaLab
Steve Rubel visits Idealab and discusses Tweetup.' ... TweetUp combines sophisticated relevance algorithms with a bidding system to raise your best tweets to the...
From My Biased Coin
Complexity of Distributed Systems, Market Crash Style
Apparently, the stock market crash of 5/6/10 was not, as originally thought, due to a "standard" human/computer error where someone meant to sell a million shared...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Atlas Category Management
More on TNS's Atlas Category simulation tool, Unique in its ability to predict the results of key merchandising decisions. I have discussed Atlas here a number...
From Schneier on Security
Biometric Wallet
Cool idea, or dumb idea? Its features include: Fingerprint access only Bluetooth enabled for notification alerts
From Wild WebMink
Apache
The Apache Software Foundation’s radical and exceptional transparency provides a lesson all organisations need to learn. Read about it on Simon Says…
From Putting People First
Philips Design
The latest issue of new value by design, the Philips Design newsletter, contains three short articles that sit closely to what we cover in this blog: Self Health...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog