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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 Eponymous Pickle
Magnets and Minds
From a friend. I agree this is scary. it is inevitable that as we know more about the functionality of the brain this kind of manipulation will have to be closely...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Everything Is Changing in CS Education
There seems to be a lot of agreement that we need to change the way we teach computer science, especially at the pre-collegiate level. Not complete unanimity of...
From Schneier on Security
iPhone Secret Decoder Ring
It'll protect your secrets from your kid sister, unless she's smarter than that. Looks cool, though.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mastering Argument is Discovery
In CIOInsight, a good piece on mastering the art of argument. '... Disagreements happen, but respecting all opinions and engaging in argument can lead to innovation...
From Wild WebMink
? Two Lessons For Survival
Complexity can't be scaled back, sugar is a toxin, and three short links.
From Schneier on Security
DHS Cybersecurity Awareness Campaign Challenge
This is a little hokey, but better them than the NSA: The National Cybersecurity Awareness Campaign Challenge Competition is designed to solicit ideas from industry...
From Computational Complexity
SIGACT Social Networking
STOC conference and hotel registration now live. Early registration deadline is April 30th. Registration for Complexity and Electronic Commerce coming soon. You...
From Putting People First
The impact of the Internet on institutions in the future
The latest Pew Research Center Internet & American Life Project report is out: “The Impact of the Internet on Institutions in the Future” surveys 895 tech experts...
From Putting People First
Mobilizing markets
The Winter 2009 issue of MIT’s Innovations Journal is focused on “Mobilizing Markets.” All contents are available online. Prerequisite to Prosperity Why Africa’s...
From Putting People First
Mobile-based livelihood services in Africa
“Mobile-based livelihood services in Africa: pilots and early deployments” is a new paper by Jonathan Donner, a researcher in the Technology for Emerging Markets...
From Putting People First
Co-creation: not just another focus group
To launch Twist, a new men’s fragrance in its global Axe brand, Unilever turned to a preapproved crowd of eager young amateurs for help. Venessa Wong reports in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robotic Presentations
Richard James points me to Phil Presents, by Phil Waknell (ex-P&G, ex-HP). Which covers a number of topics, including robotic presentations. He now runs a company...
From The Noisy Channel
Get Unvarnished!
Earlier this week, I read about Unvarnished on TechCrunch and was extremely curious about this “Yelp for LinkedIn” making a bold play in the online reputation space...
From The Eponymous Pickle
RFID Journal News Roundup
We followed the technology of RFID for a number of years as it applied to retail on shelf and inventory applications. We tested many related ideas in the innovation...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
GENI Experimenters Workshop
Those of you who haven’t taken a look at the GENI project in the last year or two need to do so. The name is the same, but the project is totally different, and...
From Schneier on Security
Explosive Breast Implants -- Not an April Fool's Joke
Is MI5 playing a joke on us? Female homicide bombers are being fitted with exploding breast implants which are almost impossible to detect, British spies havecould...
From Putting People First
Jan Chipchase (Nokia) guest blogging for CGAP
The title might be a bit cryptic for some readers, but Jan Chipchase is a well-known user researcher/anthropologist at Nokia. He spent a decade exploring the intersection...
From Computational Complexity
Lets Prove Something instead of proving that we can't prove something
We complexity theorists seem more concerned with proving that we can't prove things than with actually proving things!!!! There have been two workshop on Barriers...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog