Your next boss could be a computer

Your next boss could be a computer - tech - 06 December 2012 - New Scientist: "I'D RATHER have a computer as my boss than a jerk," says Daniel Barowy. To that end he has created AutoMan, the first fully automatic system that can delegate tasks to human workers via crowdsourcing platforms such as Amazon's Mechanical Turk. Barowy and colleagues designed AutoMan to send out jobs, manage workers, accept or reject work and make payments. "You're replacing people's bosses with a computer," he says.

Life Browser

A Microsoft Builds prototype software called Lifebrowser uses artificial intelligence to help you revisit important events, photos, and e-mails from your own life.

Source: Technology Review

End Users Want an "iPod"

According to Moore, before a new technology, such as RFID, can go mainstream, there must be a problem that no other technology can solve, as well as a global standard, a whole product, a critical mass of users and a gorilla that the rest of the market feels safe to embrace.

Read the full article at RFID Journal.

Amazon Price Check

Amazon Price Check, an Android app that allows a customer to check how much a product costs at Amazon.com.

This can be considered a mainstream Internet of Things application. Watch out for many more in the coming years, as the borders between physical and virtual world become more blurred...

Which technologies get better faster?

Some forms of technology — think, for example, of computer chips — are on a fast track to constant improvements, while others evolve much more slowly. Now, a new study by researchers at MIT and other institutions shows that it may be possible to predict which technologies are likeliest to advance rapidly, and therefore may be worth more investment in research and resources.

Source: MIT News via ACM Tech News

Portuguese Software Enables Automatic Analysis of Mammograms

This software, developed by a research team from INESC Porto and FEUP, can automatically analyse and validate cases of breast cancer using similar cases when the results are clear.

Source: INESC Porto via ACM Tech News