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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 Computing Community Consortium Blog
Watson
David Ferrucci’s official title is “IBM Fellow and Leader of the Semantic Analysis and Integration Department at IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center.” But to the...
From Schneier on Security
Tennessee Makes Password Sharing Illegal
Here's a new law that won't work: State lawmakers in country music's capital have passed a groundbreaking measure that would make it a crime to use a friend's...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Programming is for Girls
Fair warning: Some gross generalizations and exaggeration for emphasis follow. But some valid points I think. I wrote my first computer program over 35 years...
From The Eponymous Pickle
FarmShoring
Colleague Steve King in Small Biz Labs gives a good overview of Farmshoring ... " Farmshoring - also called insourcing - describes outsourcing or locating operations...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Demoing Gram's House at Games for Change Festival 2011
I'm very excited to announce that I'll be demoing Gram's House at this year's Games for Change Festival. Even though the game did not make it through the first...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nielsen and the Ethnic Consumer
Dissecting the Ethnic consumer: In Convience Store News, a look at data about ethnic shopping behavior. " .... From what people watch to what they buy, behavior...
From Schneier on Security
Fighting Terrorism with Cupcakes
MI6 hacked into an online al-Qaeda magazine and replaced bomb-making instructions with a cupcake recipe. It's a more polite hack than subtly altering the recipe...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Precise Language: It's All Relative
The term "precise language" has come up twice in the past few weeks in way that highlight the difference between computer science people and other people. (I wouldn't...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What is next in Windows 8
In what appears to be a fairly radical change, Windows 8 will be looking very different than Windows 7. I am thinking of moving to a new vendor's OS during my next...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple Provides Free Cloud
Announced by Apple today: iCloud will compete with and likely severely hurt vendors that have as part of their services file synchronization. Watch this carefully...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Products Should Communicate Effectively
From the Harvard Blogs: Yes, designed well and communicate to their context transparently. " ... Obviously there are many dimensions of communication, but as...
From Geeking with Greg
Eli Pariser is wrong
In recent interviews and in his new book, "The Filter Bubble", Eli Pariser claims that personalization limits serendipity and discovery.For example, in one interview...
From Geeking with Greg
Continuous profiling at Google
"Google-Wide Profiling: A Continuous Profiling Infrastructure for Data Centers" (PDF) has some fascinating details on how Google does profiling and looks for performance...
From Computational Complexity
A Valiant Weekend
In my role as SIGACT chair, I got to attend the ACM Awards Banquet held at the beginning of FCRC in San Jose. I shared a table with Mitzenmacher who posted on the...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
In Testimony, CISE AD Describes Research Contributions
Farnam Jahanian, the Assistant Director for CISE, testified at a U.S. House of Representatives hearing on May 25th. The hearing, convened jointly by the Subcommittee...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Offers Cheaper City in a Box
Had to smile at this one. IBM has been pushing their Smarter City idea heavily in ads. Cities are in trouble financially today with the rest of government. So...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Why I still program
People expect that, as you grow older, you give up practical jobs such as programming for more noble tasks such as managing a team and acquiring funding. This especially...
From Wild WebMink
? Ending Division
LibreOffice Conference, Paris, 12th-15th October, 2011 The LibreOffice community is organising a conference. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if all the various strands...
From Schneier on Security
Analysis of Redaction Failures
Redaction failures are so common that I stopped blogging about them years ago. This is the first analysis I have seen of technical redaction failures. And here's...
From Putting People First