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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 …
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links for 2011-01-04
ACTA blog by FFII Useful reference point for information about the progress of ACTA, worth bookmarking. (tags: ACTA FFII Blog) The Ultimate Patent Troll Patent:...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Imagine Cup News January 20111
Are you back at school yet? Hope you had a good holiday break. I know I did. The other day I got the Imagine Cup newsletter via email and thought that this might...
From The Noisy Channel
So You Like Big Data
The increasing volume of data that we generate as a species is a story so overplayed as to have become trite. Indeed, a vast amount of this data is in the public...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data Scientists
In the Noisy Channel: About data scientists, what they hve been doing lately and their relationships to the increasing amounts of data all of us have been generating...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Algorithmic Thinking and Computational Linguistics
The Algorithms and Linguistics page (http://www.education.rec.ri.cmu.edu/fire/naclo/) on The FIRE Project website is a site that introduces younger students to...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Pseudocontext in Computer Science
Can you imagine a programming assignment or example where "common sense and real-world knowledge are not needed"? Math teacher (and now PhD student in education)...
From Computational Complexity
What is a breakthrough? Lets have an intelligent discussion!!!!!!
In 2010 this blog announced the following Breakthrough!!!! results: (Listed chronologically.) Better Algorithms for Unique Games, by Arora, Barak, Steurer. (We...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Snap a Picture, Save a Stream
Creek Watch. A simple Smart Water effort via IBM uses a mobile phone application to gather data about stream conditions. Simple smart sensor application. It does...
From Schneier on Security
Polar Bears Destroying Hidden Cameras
Watch the video. What valuable security lessons does this teach? EDITED TO ADD (1/3): And why aren't the polar bears destroying the hidden cameras that are...
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links for 2011-01-03
World condemns UK control orders And rightly so. They are as bad as Guantanmo, punishment without end for people accused of being athreat without conviction and...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 3 January 2011
Happy New Year! I hope your year is off to a good start. I know mine is. I
From The Eponymous Pickle
Earth Project Seeks to Simulate Everything
From the BBC: Quite a huge undertaking. Including always problematic aspects of human behavior ... " ... Nicknamed the Living Earth Simulator, the project aims...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Developing Robots for the Emergency Room
In CACM: Developing Robots for the hospital emergency room. I have worked on simulations of an operating room, which would be a good first step for this.
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Networks Can Tell us About the World
Good overview video about using networks to understand systems they describe. Talk given at the Santa Fe Institute. The 2010 Ulam LectureNetworks and the World...
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Giving Up Yahoo
Yahoo Messenger is the only IM network I use where I am bothered daily by spam-porn-bots attempting to add me to their contact lists. Some days there are as many...
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2010 in review
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter...
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