Banks Scan Trader Talk for Signs (The Wall Street Journal Europe, Fri, 06 Dec 2013, Page 1)

LONDON— Banks have banned cellphones, barred electronic chat rooms and forced traders to go on vacation. But in the battle to avoid trading scandals, a new weapon is coming to the fore: algorithms that detect potentially troublesome patterns in...

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Facebook Building Major Artificial Intelligence System To Understand Who We Are

Finally, everyone seems to be jumping on board with Artificial Intelligence (besides Financial Engineers).

Major dollars are now being invested here, so we can assume a significant anticipated payoff in the near future. Or, it could be that the payoffs aren't clear yet, but corporate strategists don't want to take a chance on being left out of the game.

What is the catalyst? Who are the champions? Who are the new faces?

I'll be compiling items, investigating the stakes, stakeholders, and other questions in upcoming posts.

Cameron Scott, SingularityHub, "Facebook builds AI system"
Sean Coughlan, BBC News, "Existential Risk as a Global Priority"
Rip Empson, TechCrunch, "Autonomous Driving"
Ben Goertzel, IEET, "Artificial Wisdom"
Terry A. Ward, University of Iowa, "Artificial Intelligence Research: An Evangelical Perspective"
Russell C. Bjork, "Artificial Intelligence and the Soul"
Enrico Coiera, "Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: An Introduction"
Jim Hendler (Steven Cherry podcast), IEEE Spectrum, "IBM's Watson Tries to Learn...Everything"
David Selinger, IT BusinessEdge, "Hill Climbing: From Artificial Intelligence to Business Intelligence"
Randall C. O'Reilly, "Biologically Based Computational Models of High-Level Thinking"
James Barat, Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era

Linear programming, applied math, axioms

How applied maths helps money grow on trees (The Irish Times, Oct 3 2013, Page12)

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How applied maths helps money grow on trees

The Irish Times
Oct 3 2013
ABerkeley graduate student, George Dantzig, was late for class. He scribbled down two problems from the blackboard and handed in solutions a few days later. But the problems on the board were not homework assignments; they were two famous unsolved......read more...

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You may hear this soon...

Very interesting idea whose time may now be upon us (at last).

I imagine this will be extended to simultaneous voice translation.

Software to clarify speech dials up new audience (National Post - (Latest Edition), Oct 3 2013)

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Software to clarify speech dials up new audience

National Post - (Latest Edition)
Oct 3 2013
It began as a fascinating, made-in-Canada technology to render the voices of people with cerebral palsy and other speech-impeding conditions more intelligible. Now the developers of unique speech-transformation software are talking to companies with......read more...

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Coming Soon - A Better Reading Experience

Dogs love anyone who feeds them... even if it’s a robot! (Daily Mail, Sep 16 2013, Page31)

Woof!

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Dogs love anyone who feeds them... even if it's a robot!

Daily Mail
Sep 16 2013
LOYALLY standing by our side through life's ups and downs, the dog is cherished as man's best friend. But it seems that a dog's love for humans might be slightly more fickle, after a study found that the animals can learn to love robots. After simply......read more...

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Taking a stand for better health (The Southland Times, Sep 16 2013, Page7)

This would be great at our office :)

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Taking a stand for better health

The Southland Times
Sep 16 2013
Let me start by saying I am no lifestyle activist. I'm not a fitness freak. My ambitions to single-handedly save the planet have to queue up behind my everyday problems of paying the bills and putting petrol in my car. I don't cycle to work, I don't......read more...

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Research Findings : Bike for Libraries (Cyc4lib)

"We just want to be free. We just want to ride our bikes and not be hassled by the Man." —Peter Fonda, The Wild Angels (1966 biker movie). Quoted in: Bridges, Karl. Beyond the Browser : Web 2.0 and Librarianship. (p.41) Libraries Unlimited, ABC-CLIO, LLC. Santa Barbara, CA. 2012. ISBN: 978-1-59158-816-0.

Today's favorite: 

Cycling for Libraries. Accessed May 23, 2013. http://www.cyclingforlibraries.org/.

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