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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 The Computing Community Consortium Blog
The Future of Computer Architecture Research
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From Computer Science Teachers Association
Things are Happening in Massachusetts
Things are happening in Massachusetts on the Computer Science education front. First, Dot Diva, a program sponsored by WGBH and ACM to promote the field of Computer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Kind of Science on the iPad
Stephen Wolfram blogs about the appearance of his mega book: A New Kind of Science on the IPad, with enhanced graphics. I bought this book when it first came out...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Super Wifi Space Approved
Engadget on Super Wifi. Followed Wimax for years and its potential application for retail. Is this the same thing? No it is not, but it is very likely to compete...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gillette, Razor and Blade Strategy
In the HBR blog, more history and discussion of the renowned Gillette razor and blade strategy. " ... What should we take away from this? Did Gillette just miss...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reality Has a Gaming Layer
In O'Reilly Radar, a good interview piece on integrating reality and games. I know about attempts like FourSquare that make weak attempts to do this. In the world...
From Schneier on Security
Evercookies
Extremely persistent browser cookies: evercookie is a javascript API available that produces extremely persistent cookies in a browser. Its goal is to identify...
From Computational Complexity
Theorems that are less interesting because they are more interesting
(This post was inspired by Joe Kruskal's passing. Kruskal's tree theorem, trees under minor are a well quasi order, relates to example 2 below.) There are some...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pay with Your Smartphone
An Engadget report. We saw experimental examples done in this space over two years ago, it is surprising that we are still not seeing the right hardware in smartphones...
From Schneier on Security
Details Removed from Book at Request of U.S. Department of Defense
From the AFP: A publisher has agreed to remove US intelligence details from a memoir by a former army officer in Afghanistan after the Pentagon raised last-minute...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-09-23
BSA's Piracy Numbers: Less than They Seem Glyn's research here is very useful. The BSA use of statistics is very regrettable, as is their use of inuendo and framing...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Imagine Cup
There are many indications that today
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Science of Retailing
A book I had missed when it came out earlier this year: The New Science of Retailing: How Analytics are Transforming the Supply Chain and Improving Performance....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Media Measurement
Accurate measurement is important:Why Measurement Is Still Screwing Up the Online Ad Business " ... Digital media measurement is a mess, and we're all responsible...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Human Centric Analysis
Well known visualization guru Stephen Few on human centric analysis." ... All of the traditional BI software vendors and most of the industry
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Storm in mHealth
Mark Montgomery of KYield continues his insightful writing about issues in mHealth. Make sure to read the whole thing: " ... Imagine the gasp from the family physician...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Keeping Retiree Knowledge in the Game
Keeping knowledge in the company is an increasingly difficult task. It is a key part of the whole process called knowledge management. Where is the knowledge...
From Schneier on Security
The Stuxnet Worm
It's impressive: The Stuxnet worm is a "groundbreaking" piece of malware so devious in its use of unpatched vulnerabilities, so sophisticated in its multipronged...
From The Eponymous Pickle