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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 2010-10-11
IBM joins the OpenJDK community and dumps Apache Harmony "IBM will work with Oracle and the Java community to make OpenJDK the primary high performance open source...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Promotes the Fourth Screen
According to this article and a number of others there are four screens that Google would like to get hold of:The TV, the Computer, the Mobile Phone .... and the...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
New Developments in Exploring CS Curriculum
There have been exciting developments in the Los Angeles Exploring Computer Science program. This past week, the university-district-CSTA partnership received...
From Schneier on Security
The Economist on Biometrics
Good article. Here's my essay on biometrics, from 1999.
From Computational Complexity
The NSF Takes Shape
As I've mentioned before, the NSF is turning over top to bottom especially in computer science. Most of the pieces are now in place so let's check out the new personnel...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 11 October 2010
Yesterday was 10/10/10 which a lot of geek types had fun with. Of course 101010 in binary is 42 in decimal and 42, according to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...
From Putting People First
Experientia supporting Flemish applied research on mobility and sustainability
Experientia is excited to be working on two applied research projects for Flanders InShape (FIS), a Flemish design promotion agency that supports and advises small...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Grand Challenges for Engineering
This blog post in Kurzweil AI reminded me of the Grand Challenges for Engineering. It lists them specifically. I remember reading about these years ago. The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Springer's Computer Science Reading Room
Springer Publishing has opened what they call a computer science reading room, nice idea. A Free Library of Computer Science Knowledge Inside the Computer Science...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Repast Simphony
A recent project made me re-examine Repast: An Agent Simulation toolkit. For what is called Agent Based Simulation (ABM) Repast Simphony is a free and open source...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bayesian Truth Serum, Pluralistic Ignorance
I can remember just this occuring in a project in the enterprise, on pluralistic ignorance. I guess this calls for more transparency? .. It begins: " ... In social...
From The Noisy Channel
Pluralistic Ignorance and Bayesian Truth Serum
Last week, I had the pleasure of talking with CMU professor George Loewenstein, one of the top researchers in the area of behavioral economics. I mentioned my idea...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deleted Posts are Discoverable
An article about using deleted posts in social networking sites for legal proceedings, an interesting caution:" ... Deleted Facebook and MySpace Posts Are Discoverable...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Cars Drive Themselves
This came out last week, Google cars driving themselves in traffic, with only occasional human intervention. Article in NYT Science. Now will you be able to...
From Putting People First
Ford
The New York Times reports on how car designers have recognised the challenge of keeping vehicles
From Putting People First
Ford
The New York Times reports on how car designers have recognised the challenge of keeping vehicles
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented Reality App Travels in Time
Have always thought that a good augemented reality application should include details, in text and visually, of the history of a location. How much data actually...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Standards in Neuromarketing
Duane Varan, who is leading the Advertising Research Foundation's initiative to develop standards, is interviewed on the form and need for standards in Neuromarketing...
From The Eponymous Pickle