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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 Wild WebMink
? For Your Safety
Australian Government adds Wikileaks to banned website list With WikiLeaks back in the news, this story from 2009 is more relevant than ever. Having rendered WikiLeaks...
From Schneier on Security
Causing Terror on the Cheap
Total cost for the Yemeni printer cartridge bomb plot: $4200. "Two Nokia mobiles, $150 each, two HP printers, $300 each, plus shipping, transportation and other...
From Computational Complexity
Complexity as Friction
What advantages can we get from computational hardness? Cryptography and pseudo-random number generators come to mind. But perhaps the universe made computation...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 29 November 2010
I hope everyone (US anyway) had a great Thanksgiving last week. For me it was a good time with fun, food and family. We had a great time with my new Kinect sensor...
From Michael Nielsen
The Mismeasurement of Science
Albert Einstein’s greatest scientific “blunder” (his word) came as a sequel to his greatest scientific achievement. That achievement was his theory of gravity,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Opting Out is Socially Neutral?
One would have thought that opting out of providing information that you might think is your own personal business would be your own choice. Essentially socially...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cheating and Enraging Customers as a Business Model
Negative advertisement prospers because of Google's model. Comments and link to a NYTimes article. It is traffic, not the direction of the interaction that builds...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Four Square and Pepsico: The Rise of Blockbuster Location Apps
Steve Frenda, [email protected], Managing Director, Strategy and Development, The In-Store Marketing Institute writes: " .... The following pieces are...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Localism
Colleague Steve King in Small Biz labs reports on Small Business Saturday and New Localism. " ... Today is Small Business Saturday, a promotion by American Express...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Visualization Infographic
An infographic on data visualization. Explained by the developers in Readwriteweb. A clever view of the topic as a Venn diagram, which is useful to take a look...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Benddesk
Reported in Engadget: the Benddesk, a workspace of the future idea that includes a flat table like structure and an integrated background area. All accessible...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Maybe Course Proliferation Is a Bad Idea?
I was prompted after the last CSTA board meeting to write the following, which has now turned into a blog post. My basic question is whether we are doing ourselves...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-11-27
Recommended reading: Control and Community by The 451 Group Lengthy and favourable review of the 451 report on "Control and Community" (which they have very kindly...
From Putting People First
Korea
The autumn issue of Koreana, the quarterly devoted to Korean art and culture, contains a special feature on Korea’s smartphone era. The articles come in a range...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Impact of Web 2.0 Technologies
In the CACM: Excellent overview article. Lot of good information to make the case in the enterprise.Business Impact of Web 2.0 TechnologiesWhat do wikis, blogs...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Supply Chain Digest
Newly updated with a redesign and lots of new information: The Supply Chain Digest.
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Studying Squid Hearing
At Woods Hole: It is known now, through the work of Mooney and others, that the squid hearing system has some similarities and some differences compared to human...
From The Eponymous Pickle
John Atanasoff
I am a long time follower of how historians and media address the history of computing technology. A new biography of John Atanasoff is now out: The Man Who...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog