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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
links for 2010-10-26
LibreOffice Contributions stats It's early days, but it seems liberating the OpenOffice.org community from the contributor agreement and excessive vetting has helped...
From Putting People First
Seeing the world from the East
Last week I was in Seoul, South Korea. My third visit. And it struck me again how fast Asia, and South Korea in particular, is moving economically, and hence also...
From The Noisy Channel
A Question of User Expectations
Ideally, a search engine would read the user’s mind. Shy of that, a search engine should provide the user with an efficient process for expressing an information...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Welcoming Andrew Parsons to the US Academic Team
The latest person to join the US Academic Developer Evangelist team is Andrew Parsons. Andrew is moving from the other side of the world (Australia) to work with...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crowdsourcing Microtasks
I have been involved in a number of projects that involved using crowdsourcing tasks. I had missed the conference mentioned , but I this article in Oreilly Radar...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Computer Vision
Fascinating CACM piece on changes in the direction of computer vision: A Neuromorphic Approach to Computer VisionNeuroscience is beginning to inspire a new generation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Birth Season my Effect Food Allergies
This is a surprise finding, could be used to do preventative medicine / forecasting of need for medicines that address this.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Approaches to Your Company Blog
A good piece on the establishment of a corporate blog in ReadWriteWeb Have now been involved in a number of efforts to establish a company blog. A useful look...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intelligent Individuals Don't Make Groups Smarter
An intriguing insight that is applicable to crowds research:" ... an early effort at defining general intelligence in groups suggests that individual brainpower...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Edge on Benoit Mandelbrot
The Edge online source has a number of articles by and about IBM researcher and complexity theorist, and economist Benoit Mandelbrot, who recently passed away.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tableau 6.0 to Combine Data Sources
New in Tableau 6.0, drag and drop data to combine sources.
From Computational Complexity
FOCS Part I
Some thoughts from the FOCS conference in Las Vegas. One result I hadn't seen before I heard people excited by, Determinant Sums for Undirected Hamiltonicity by Andreas...
From Schneier on Security
Declassified NSA Documents
It's a long list. These items are not online; they're at the National Archives and Records Administration in College Park, MD. You can either ask for copies by...
From Wild WebMink
? Reputation and Regulation
Building an Online Reputation, One Angry Customer at a Time Really excellent advice here on how to handle customer engagement. As one of the comments says this...
From Putting People First
Intel research projects explore context-aware computing
If you could look into Intel
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 25 October 2010
Busy week last week but than most weeks are. Also a long week since I was working a booth at the New Hampshire Tech Fest on Saturday. That was a good day though...
From Putting People First
Rotman Magazine: It
Five articles in the current issue of Rotman Magazine, the high-level and thoughtful publication of the Roger Martin-led Rotman School of Management in Toronto,...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
For Most students, the Computer is for Solving Problems
I had a memorable time last weekend. My new Apple iMac came on a FedEx truck at about 9:30am. The publishing agreement for my textbook (second semester computer...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson