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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
Gamification in Business
On Gamification in Business. Have been involved in conceptualizing and delivering several of the these projects. None were a complete success. But the metaphor...
From Schneier on Security
Protecting (and Collecting) the DNA of World Leaders
There's a lot of hype and hyperbole in this story, but here's the interesting bit: According to Ronald Kessler, the author of the 2009 book In the President’s,...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Is reading memory faster than writing on a PC?
For human beings, reading is much faster than writing. The same is often true for computers: adding a record to a database may take an order of magnitude longer...
From Computational Complexity
Fall Jobs Post
Time again for the annual fall jobs post. As always the best places to look for academic CS positions are the job sites at the CRA and the ACM. Also check out the...
From Apophenia
Truth, Lies, and ‘Doxxing’: The Real Moral of the Gawker/Reddit Story (from Wired)
I wrote the following piece for Wired. I’m keeping it here for posterity, but check out the comments over on Wired. Sitting U.S. President Ford was visiting San...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tips vs Bribes
An HBS Working knowledge piece on Tips vs bribes. Which reminds me of early training in this area. always saw the training as very well thought out, but always...
From Wild WebMink
Triangulation And Butter
Why should we care about protecting small items of personal data, such as our date of birth, parents’ names, post code and so on? Why does it matter when we’re...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 29 October 2012
First it was an earthquake and now they are talking about a hurricane hitting much of the east coast. Some places have been hit hard already. Computers are keyCoder...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Testing Flavors Online
Testing flavors online .. Not quite what it seems reading the headline. Reminds me of our own digital scent work. True virtualization of non-sight sensory interaction...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data Infrastructure
Via Gib Bassett On the emerging big data ecosystem. An interesting way to think about it ... because ecosystem implies active and important interaction. ...
From My Biased Coin
Crimson Series on the Ad Board
The Harvard Crimson just finished a four-part series looking at the Harvard Ad Board since the reforms a couple of years ago. I must admit I didn't find the articles...
From Wild WebMink
Living No Longer Easy
Summer Time has ended in Europe. That means no more fish jumpin’, daddy is definitely not rich and it would not be politic to comment on mamma. In addition, meeting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Executive Information Systems
We brought in Michael Scott Morton emeritus prof at MIT, to help us start the process of EIS. I was reminded of this by colleague Michael F Doherty. Will follow...
From Wild WebMink
CDB: Not Dead Yet
This zombie bill no politician seems able to kill is a pandora's box that will lead to a public panopticon.
From updated sporadically at best
How to Give a Talk Where I Stay Awake
I fall asleep during lectures. I have even fallen asleep during one-on-one meetings. While I am not proud of my poor attention span, it has made me think about...
From updated sporadically at best
Glitter is How I Fell in Love with San Francisco
The mid-twenties women of my peer group all have one question on our minds. Especially if we are in tech. Should we move to San Francisco?I had been living in...
From The Noisy Channel
LinkedIn at CIKM 2012
Last year, I had the pleasure of co-organizing the CIKM 2011 Industry Event in Glasgow. This year, I’m honored to be part of the CIKM 2012 Industry Event program...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP