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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 Computer Science Teachers Association
Candidate: Dr. Veronica McGowan
Editor's Note: Candidates for the upcoming CSTA election have been invited to post brief blog statements so that members can have a chance to get to know them ...
From Wild WebMink
? Wikipedia
For April Fool’s Day, Wikipedia editors have collected such a wonderful set of links and articles that it seems a shame to let it perish in the daily update. So...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
You can assess trends by the status of the participants
I conjecture that, everything else being equal, the level of your education is inversely correlated with innovation. At first, a new idea appears interesting, but...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-04-01
Creepy app warns of an end to privacy The biggest threat to your privacy is not the disclosure of any one piece of data. It's triangulation across all the data...
From Computational Complexity
The Complexity of the Soul
A CS vision professor once told me "Of course we know there is an efficient algorithm for that humans can do it." Are we just nothing more than Turing machines...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SimpleGeo Location Database
For geolocation developers:" .... SimpleGeo's hosted spatial database service Storage was released from private beta. This is the flagship product from the company...
From Schneier on Security
34 SCADA Vulnerabilities Published
It's hard to tell how serious this is. Computer security experts who examined the code say the vulnerabilities are not highly dangerous on their own, because they...
From Putting People First
Free Experientia backgrounder on EU
Major emphasis on user-centred design, open innovation and social innovation in new EU innovation strategy On 6 October 2010, the European Commission adopted the...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
IOM-NAE Health Data Collegiate Challenge
Earlier this year, the NAE and IOM, along with Health 2.0, announced a challenge for college students throughout the U.S., to create new apps or tools that use...
From Wild WebMink
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@jzbJoe Brockmeier Microsoft is going to the EU about Google being anticompetitive. That's like Jack the Ripper going to the cops for getting mugged. about 18 hours...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sherry Turkle on the Death of the Phone
Currently reading Sherry Turkle's book, mentioned below:A podcast from HBR IdeaCast: Productivity, Multitasking, and the Death of the PhoneFeatured Guest: Sherry...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Empower Research Site and Blog
I was told that Empower Research has updated their blog. Here it is. I was recently introduced to some of their work. Emphasizes social media research, Media...
From Wild WebMink
? Baby Owls
We have owls in the woods around here. I love going to and from the office after dark and hearing the sound of them going about their business (and competing with...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Working on Face Recognition App
Have now worked on a number of image recognition applications. And have always noticed the big G working around the edges of this space. Here Engadget describes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lessons from Loyalty Marketing on Job Growth
Post from the Burghard group. " ... Eric Canada has studied the impact of existing companies on job growth in communities. His data suggest attraction generally...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reinventing Analysis With Memory
A quite interesting video series by Saffron Technology, I have mentioned them in this space a number of times. A unique application of technology for the enterprise...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
A CIFellow
The following is a special contribution to this blog from
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apps as the New Wallet
Good piece in GigaOm about the continuing march towards the smartphone largely replacing the credit card and the wallet. Covers as well as some of the issues...
From Schneier on Security