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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
Critical Thinking
Friday is not the day to talk about thinking. I think a lot of people in general and students in particular are looking to stop thinking right about now. But critical...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nestle Supermarket Barge
Had heard of this before but only briefly... a novel idea which uses a barge on tributaries of the Amazon river in Brazil to engage truly emerging markets. Much...
From The Eponymous Pickle
FMI Revamps Website
FMI provides excellent technical information, over the years have been to a number of their conferences: FMI (Food Marketing Institute) has updated its website,...
From Schneier on Security
The Continuing Incompetence of Terrorists
The Atlantic on stupid terrorists: Nowhere is the gap between sinister stereotype and ridiculous reality more apparent than in Afghanistan, where it's fair toPortrait...
From Wild WebMink
? BCS Members: Vote Now
If you’re a BCS Member or Fellow you’ve received a voting pack in the mail that needs your attention. Please vote this weekend so that there’s no risk of missing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visual Experience Management
From Saffron. Intriguing linkage of associative memory and visualization. Will examine it more closely."
From My Biased Coin
Fly-By Conferences (ISIT edition)
I'm writing this from ISIT (Int'l Symposium on Inf. Theory) in Austin. In fact, I'm sitting in on the session on for "Coding for Memories", a topic I did someweb...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Watson: The Next Ken Jennings?
Ken Jennings, the man known for his record-breaking streak of 74 consecutive
From Schneier on Security
Hot Dog Security
A nice dose of risk reality: Last week, the American Academy of Pediatrics issued a statement calling for large-type warning labels on the foods that kids most...
From Computational Complexity
Alternative Careers for Logicians
(Will post on Complexity next week. I am waiting until the invited talks have their slides online so that I can point to them.) Lets say you just got a PhDacademic...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Indoor use of Augmented Reality
From a Junaio press release, a good example:"Indoor Usage of junaio
From The Eponymous Pickle
DePaul Program in Predictive Analytics
First of its kind program in the US. Useful to see this kind of thing happening, and I hope it is linked strongly to MBA programs there and elsewhere
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-06-17
UK keeps three times as many patents secret as the US Not only is the patent system broken (it has forgotten to protect the public good in return for granting a...
From Schneier on Security
Patrolling the U.S./Canada Border
Doesn't the DHS have anything else to do? As someone who believes that our nation has a right to enforce its borders, I should have been gratified when the Immigrations...
From Apophenia