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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 Daniel Lemire's Blog
China: the new Scientific Superpower?
From my experience, the quality and the quantity of the scientific research articles from China has been increasing dramatically in the last five years. To verify...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Linkedin as the Login of Choice
In ReadwriteWeb: Short article and infographic about the rise of Linkedin as the Login of choice. Facebook, though also moving toward more of a B2B identity place...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Get the Data
Nice idea. Questions and anwers about getting data you need in the form you need it in.Every day, more and more data is being published on the web; but trying...
From Putting People First
Experientia selected for second stage FredericiaC competition in Denmark
A consortium made up of Arup, EFFEKT, Experientia, and consultants from NCC Management Group, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (KA), Conceptura, and Ars Electronica...
From Putting People First
Experientia pre-qualifies for FredericiaC competition in Denmark
A consortium made up of Arup, EFFEKT, Experientia, and consultants from NCC Management Group, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (KA), Conceptura, and Ars Electronica...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cowans Sells Duveneck Girl Portrait
I have been doing work looking at the use of social networking in the auction world. This past weekend Cowan's Auctions sold Frank Duveneck's portrait of a girl...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Is the Cloud Ready Yet?
Hunter Richards asks for the opinion of accountants to see if they think that the cloud is ready yet. Join in the survey and get the results. With some interesting...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Making the Case for Becoming a Computer Science Teacher
Mark Guzdial asks the question What
From Wild WebMink
? More Ratings Please
Given the interest in my earlier article about a scorecard for open source and my own rough-and-ready benchmark proposal, I’d be interested in seeing how well the...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
CS and Science Fairs
"We need to teach our kids that it's not just the winner of the Super Bowl who deserves to be celebrated, but the winner of the science fair and that success is...
From Computational Complexity
The Theory Postdoc Culture
FOCS Call for Papers posted. Deadline April 13. The CRA organized a committee that put together on a white paper on whether postdocs are healthy for Computer Science...
From Schneier on Security
Scareware: How Crime Pays
Scareware is fraudulent software that uses deceptive advertising to trick users into believing they're infected with some variety of malware, then convinces them...
From Putting People First
Passive magic, design of delightful experience
Stefan Klocek, principal designer at Cooper, reflects on what it means to design for wonder and delight in the user experience: “Why is Google Maps on a mobile...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of February 7
February 10 Hearing: The Immigration Policy and Enforcement Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on the E-Verify program, an electronic...
From Putting People First
Reflecting on usability and user-centred design
Two new articles have been published on the UX Matters site: Why don
From Putting People First
SEE conference looks at Europe
Experientia partner Mark Vanderbeeken will be heading to his home country of Belgium in March 2011, to chair the SEE conference on integrating design into regional...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 7 February 2011
I spent the weekend in Miami for a meeting of a joint ACM and IEEE committee working on a new/updated set of curriculum recommendations for four-year college computer...
From Wild WebMink
Governance Benchmark Available
My article establishing an open-by-rule benchmark for checking the governance of open source communities is now available in the Essays section.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cyber War Rules of Engagement
In the BBC: On a proposal for a cyber war rules of engagement. This deserves thinking about much more than it has been. We now depend much on the Internet and...
From The Eponymous Pickle