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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 Schneier on Security
Man Flies with Someone Else's Ticket and No Legal ID
Last week, I got a bunch of press calls about Olajide Oluwaseun Noibi, who flew from New York to Los Angeles using an expired ticket in someone else's name andmakes...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
A Post BASIC World?
What does is mean to be in a post BASIC world? This is the question that comes to mine when I read about an article titled How are students learning programming...
From Putting People First
How computers can cure cultural diabetes
Peter Lunenfeld (wikipedia), professor in the Design | Media Arts department at UCLA, argues in a New Scientist op-ed piece for the importance of what he calls...
From Putting People First
Alone together
MIT technology and society specialist Professor Sherry Turkle presents – during a June 1 talk at the RSA in London – the results of a fifteen year exploration of...
From Putting People First
The iPad as support for people with disabilities
The Apple tablet is helping people with disabilities by reading e-mails, voicing directions, and zooming in on text. “Apple has added features that make the iPhone...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Making Changes in Response to Student Complaints
It is summer and time to reflect upon the past school year. Course evaluations are in, and provided some interesting insight into how my students perceived my class...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Inside AR 2011
Junaio reports from the Augmented Reality 2011 Conference. A useful update of what is going on in augmented reality. Includes a new linkage to the Google Places...
From The Eponymous Pickle
First Annual Neuromarketing Awards
The IPG Media Lab and Affectiva Announce Winners of First Annual Neuromarketing AwardsCANNES, France, June 24, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Mediabrands' IPG Media Lab and...
From Wild WebMink
? TAPped Out
If you don’t like whingeing by frequent fliers, skip this post! I spent all day Tuesday travelling back from Brazil on TAP. Having taken four flights with them...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 5 July 2011
Wow! What a week it has been. I came home from ISTE in time for the Fourth of July holiday. I
From The Eponymous Pickle
Coworking vs Working from a Coffee Shop
Working locations for startups and consulting, after the Wifi is established.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Eric Lander and Larry Summers Talk Innovation, R&D
At the Brookings Institution last week, Larry Summers, former head of the National Economic Council, and Eric Lander, co-chair of the President’s Council of Advisors...
From Computational Complexity
The Quantum Tivo
Chuck Klosterman writes on watching sports on tape delay and Jeff Ely follows up. I take a quantum mechanics view: A sporting event saved on my Tivo is like Schr...
From Schneier on Security
Research in Secure Chips
Unsuprisingly, the U.S. military is funding reseach in this.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Shopping
Imteresting case use of virtual displays to shop in the Korean subways More here.
From CERIAS Blog
More than passive defense
I was watching a video today (more on that later) that reminded me of some history. It also brought to mind that too few defenders these days build forensics capture...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Bill Ford at TED
A superb talk by Bill Ford, executive chairman of Ford Motor Company, at TED ’11. “The mobility model that we have today simply will not work tomorrow … We need...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The myth of the unavoidable specialization
In a recent essay, Malone et al. claimed that we were entering the age of hyperspecialization. Their core assumption: human beings are more efficient when doing...
From The Noisy Channel
Google
When I left Google last December, it was an open secret that Google was developing a social networking product. Now that Google has released Google+, I am at liberty...
From Wild WebMink