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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
Grocery Stores are Spreading the Apps
A number of grocery stores are now providing their own smartphone Apps to increase engagement with their customers. An article in the Miami Herald about the efforts...
From Putting People First
Interview on Experientia
This month’s e-Periscope review has a brief interview with Experientia partner Mark Vanderbeeken, talking about Experientia’s strategy on sustainable living in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Counting Unknown Hierarchical Kinds
A discovered technical paper just published in Language Log. About how to estimate kinds of things that exist in a hierarchical organizations. The initial posed...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
First Person:
The following is a special contribution to this blog by Doug Fisher, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Computer Engineering at Vanderbilt University....
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Algorithms Shape Our World
Interesting TED video on the advance of algorithms. A very skeptical view of their value. As someone who has dealt with them for a long time I see much misunderstanding...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-08-24
Beware: Europe's 'unitary patent' could mean unlimited software patents | Technology | guardian.co.uk Stallman is right to call the alarm on unitary patents. We...
From Schneier on Security
Stealing ATM PINs with a Thermal Camera
It's easy: Researchers from UCSD pointed thermal cameras towards plastic ATM PIN pads and metal ATM PIN pads to test how effective they were at stealing PIN numbers...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Languages That Make You Think
The old joke used to be that
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Athena Project
I just discovered Christian Renaud's Athena Project: " ... The Athena Project is being developed to engage 21stCentury students using virtual learning environments...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Public Domain Review
So with all the knowledge out there on the Web, what is really out there in the public domain? Copyright laws continue to extend the extent of protection. Ororphaned...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Future of Tablets
A ComputerWorld look at a number of innovations that will lead to changes in tablet design and function.
From Schneier on Security
Smartphone Keystroke Logging Using the Motion Sensor
Clever: "When the user types on the soft keyboard on her smartphone (especially when she holds her phone by hand rather than placing it on a fixed surface), the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Patent For Data Optimization in Workplace
Great to hear, congratulations to Mark Montgomery, who I have corresponded with for years. Read the whole thing on the link below. See also theKYield site. ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Promoting Creativity
In the Harvard Business Review Working Knowledge: All about promoting creativity. " ... We tend to think of the moment of insight and creativity in sudden and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Using Badges in Games
Properly Using Badges To Engage Customers. Some good thoughts on how to use the concept of 'badges' when doing gamification. I still have my doubts about using...
From Wild WebMink
? The Long Road To Software Freedom
At the Community Leadership Summit in Portland back in July, I moderated a session called “The Death Star User Group”, aimed at community managers working for large...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
AppInventor Goes to New Home
My heart sank a few weeks ago when Google announced that they would be dropping AppInventor as part of their decision to get rid of Google Labs. Like many of you...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CIFellow Miriah Meyer Named to TR35
Congratulations to Miriah Meyer, one of our 2009 Computing Innovation Fellows — and now faculty at the University of Utah’s School of Computing – who was just named...
From Computational Complexity
What inspired you to work on... whatever you work on?
Grad students often wonder how people get ideas of things to work on. The usual advice I give is (1) go to talks, (2) read papers, (3) talk to people, (4) follow...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog