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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 Female Perspective of Computer Science
CRA-W Grad Cohort: Non-academic Career Paths
Becoming a professor isn't the only option after getting your PhD. There are plenty of non-academic options in both research and non-research areas. Take a look...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Progressive Grocers Using Analytics
Alison Bolen at SASCom writes about some examples they heard about how grocers are using data intense analytical methods.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google PageRank Overview
A good general overview of Google PageRank from the Search Engine Watch blog.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
A Federal Health IT Strategic Plan
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) — which last year announced
From Schneier on Security
Unanticipated Security Risk of Keeping Your Money in a Home Safe
In Japan, lots of people -- especially older people -- keep their life savings in cash in their homes. (The country's banks pay very low interest rates, so the...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Kinect For Windows is Coming
You know you want it. Ever since the Kinect was announced back when it was code-named Project Natal you know you were thinking
From The Noisy Channel
Social Utility, +/- 25%
I like Google… I’ve been a regular Google user since the day I first discovered its existence in 1999. Indeed, I’ve consistently found Google to be the most useful...
From Wild WebMink
? Going To OSCON
I just got a very welcome e-mail – an acceptance for my talk at OSCON in Portland this July. I’ll be speaking on Thursday morning, on this subject: Most open source...
From The Eponymous Pickle
College Librarians Warm up to Wikipedia
From Inside Higher Ed: In recent weeks I have been asked by several people about the validity of using Wikipedia links for research, both inside a company and...
From Computational Complexity
Going off topic in class: I think it worked--- this time
Recently I went off topic in a class. I think it was okay but I want YOUR thoughts. On Monday I defined Primitive Recursive functions showed them that addition...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Heartland Robotics
Rodney Brooks on Heartland Robotics See the site. It has been declared a 'top 300' startup. Brooks, you will remember was a professor of Robotics at MIT and the...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-04-14
Open Standards law approved in Portugal The law is a great thing, as long as the actual implementation leads to greater software freedom. I humbly suggest the Portuguese...
From Schneier on Security
Changing Incentives Creates Security Risks
One of the things I am writing about in my new book is how security equilibriums change. They often change because of technology, but they sometimes change because...
From Putting People First
Call to participate at the Core77 Design Awards
As one of the jury captains for the inaugural year of the Core77 Design Awards, I am calling upon all Putting People First readers to spread the news about the...
From Putting People First
Book: Brave NUI World
Brave NUI World: Designing natural user interfaces for touch and gesture by Daniel Wigdor and Dennis Wixon Paperback, 264 pages Morgan Kaufmann, 2011 (Amazon link)...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Books for Computer Science Students
Ever since I was told about a list of Movies for Computer Science Students and wrote some comments about that list I have been thinking book. Fiction books. Novels...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Consumers Use Tablets
Small Biz Labs reports on a Google survey of how consumers use tablets. Not too surprising overall. They are replacing TV use.
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
CRA-W Grad Cohort: Research Proposals
What exactly is a research proposal and how do you prepare a good one? The following advice, given at the 2011 CRA-W Grad Cohort, is mainly intended for your PhD...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog