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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 Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
New XNA Jump Start Mini-course
Microsoft recently released a new XNA Jump Start Mini-course. Programming with C# and XNA 0.5: Jump Start is an exciting and engaging 4-5-week introduction...
From Computational Complexity
Greetings from Porto
Today we just finished the thesis defense of Andre Souto at University of Porto. Good News: He passed the defense so now we call him Dr. Souto. Better news: By...
From Michael Nielsen
TEDxWaterloo
I’m speaking today about open science at the TEDxWaterloo event, just outside Toronto. I’m really looking forward to the event, and to all the talks – I’m especially...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A New Kind of Consulting
Of interest, related to my recent note on social networks in the enterprise. CapGemini is reorganizing to use social networks to do consulting. Also, consultancy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
RStudio for R
RStudio: A new IDE (Integrated Development Environment) that looks to make coding easier for the open source statistics language R. Much more here.
From Schneier on Security
Pickpockets are a Dying Breed
Pickpockets in America are dying out. This is the bit I found interesting: And perhaps most important, the centuries-old apprenticeship system underpinning organized...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The Body As Mouse
Hopefully you have heard of the Kinect for Xbox 360 by now. Perhaps you even have one. Millions of them have been sold and it has really started to change how we...
From Wild WebMink
? Open Source Procurement: Subscriptions
When you procure proprietary software, you buy a right-to-use license and then a support agreement. But when you buy open source, you already have the right-to-use...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Is Social Networking in Business a Revolution?
Social networking in the enterprise. What exactly is its value there? Is it way to improve productivity via more transparent communications. Or is a waste of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Comparing ShopSavvy and RedLaser Barcode Readers
I just received an update for the ShopSavvy barcode reader for my IPhone 4 Smartphone. I was able to do a quick comparison with the RedLaser barcode reader on...
From Computational Complexity
A good article on how science is publicized gets the science wrong
(Guest Post by John Rogers) I have just been reading the recently published book "Seeing Further". Edited by Bill Bryson, it contains essays commissioned for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unusual Uses of QR Codes
In the AisleBuyer Blog: Another Type of Barcode: QR Codes and Their Unusual Uses Also see more about what AisleBuyer does. " ... Meet the World
From The Eponymous Pickle
Streetview from a Tricycle
Google uses Tricycles, albeit very unusual ones, to get a streetview in parks and footpaths. I like the experience being gathered by gathering data from human...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Great Canadian Appathon
Carleton's Game Development Club is one of six host schools for the upcoming Great Canadian Appathon:The Great Canadian Appathon is a chance for post-secondarysoftware...
From Schneier on Security
NIST SHA-3 News
NIST has finally published its rationale for selecting the five finalists.
From Wild WebMink
? Corporate Fictions
BSA: Open standards will ‘increase e-government costs’ I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised by this, but I am shocked at just how blatantly disdainful BSA are of...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Register Now for CSTA's Annual CS&IT Conference 2011
You are cordially invited to attend the 11h annual Computer Science & Information Technology Symposium at Columbia University Faculty House in New York, NY! July...
From Wild WebMink
? Is Mozilla Open-By-Rule?
Host to the Firefox browser and the Thunderbird mail client among many other projects, the Mozilla Foundation is one of the largest and most significant open source...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Debate on Patent Reform
The debate on US patent reform will begin in the Senate. My own limited interaction with Patents says we need it. CW Article.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog