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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
Computer Class or Computer Science Class
There is much too much confusion about the difference between a
From Putting People First
The (limited) power of good intentions
Socially responsible design, writes Julie Lasky in Metropolis Magazine, is a whole lot harder than it looks.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visualizing Your Inbox
Another example of Gmail inbox visualization. I have mentioned a few others here. I have built some simple screen scraping methods to look at this via Excel,...
From Computational Complexity
New York Area Theory Day- Nov 12, 2010
New York Area Theory Day, Organized by: IBM/NYU/Columbia, External sponsorship by: Google, Friday, November 12, 2010 The Theory Day will be held at Couranthere...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Econonomics of Mass Collaboration
HBR Podcast with guest Don Tapscott, chairman of nGenera Insight and coauthor of Macrowikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World. on the economics of mass collaboration...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-10-22
AWS Free Usage Tier I was actually surprised to find Amazon didn't have a sandpit for AWS, so this new offering really doesn't surprise me. They still have no easy...
From Schneier on Security
FaceTime for Mac Security Hole
Once a user has logged into FaceTime, anyone with access to the machine can change the user's Apple ID password without knowing the old password.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tynt - Copy and Paste
Another example of the ability to determine how much your content is being shared. I have always looked at this with mixed feelings ... you want what you saySee...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Some Shopping by Phone Only
Who shops using mobile, and what are the consequences?" ... A small segment of consumers prefer to shop using their mobile devices, according to a report from Millennial...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Deborah Crawford to receive 2010 Presidential Rank Award
Deborah Crawford, who recently left her position as NSF’s Deputy Assistant Director for CISE (Jeannette Wing’s right-hand person) to become Vice Provost for Research...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google CPG Blog
I was reminded that Google has a Consumer Package Goods vertical blog that I had not visited in some time, check it out.
From Schneier on Security
Electronic Car Lock Denial-of-Service Attack
Clever: Inspector Richard Haycock told local newspapers that the possible use of the car lock jammers would help explain a recent spate of thefts from vehicles...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
President Obama Recognizes Science Superstars
Earlier this week President Obama hosted the winners of a number of major STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) competitions. Two of the students who...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Senses and Sales
Roger Dooley writes about the use of more senses to promote sales. Along the way mentioning and quoting Dan Hill's new book: About Face: The Secrets of Emotionally...
From Computational Complexity
Will there be a 50th CCC? Will you be there?
At the 25th CCC Juris Hartmanis gave a great talk to celebrate having a 25th. Will there be a 50th? I asked people at the conference. What did they say? Watch the...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The future is already here
It is not 9am yet. Nevertheless, I got a lot done: I attended the thesis proposal of my student Eduardo via Skype. I was literally in my basement with a fresh cup...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-10-21
Every email and website to be stored "Every email, phone call and website visit is to be recorded and stored after the Coalition Government revived controversial...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Adding Human Intelligence to Software
From CACM: Whats interesting here is the connection to Amazon's Mechanical Turk, which we used to experiment with human intelligence tasks. There are some things...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Girl Scouts Fight Photoshopping
This is interesting, reminding me of the Dove ads of a few years ago. What are the implications of 'healthy media' ? Or is an act like this just censorship?
From The Eponymous Pickle