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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 Putting People First
Clay Shirky and Stephen Fry on the digital revolution
The people behind Digital Revolution (working title), an open source documentary, due for transmission on BBC Two in 2010, that will take stock of 20 years of change...
From Putting People First
Trust in digital life
Denise Deveau, technology writer at The Globe and Mail speaks with Kim Cameron, Microsoft’s identity guru, about what it will take for consumers and businesses...
From The Noisy Channel
Books! Books! Books!
When my daughter was born almost two years ago, I wondered if she’d grow up reading books. After all, I do most of my reading online, and increasingly find myself...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Learning with Serious Games
I have long been interested in using games for serious learning. Doesn't it make great sense to use the fun, competition and often addictive nature of the gamereviewed...
From Computational Complexity
An Unintentional Sociology of Blogs Experiment
Yesterday I posted a list of books that I want reviews of as SIGACT NEWS Book Review Column Editor. This resulted in an unintentional study of Sociology and Blogs...
From Schneier on Security
TSA Successfully Defends Itself
Story here. Basically, a woman posts a horrible story of how she was mistreated by the TSA, and the TSA responds by releasing the video showing that she was lying...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-10-20
Letter to the EC opposing Oracle's acquisition of MySQL Fascinating to see Stallman admit that the GPL does not guarantee software...
From Schneier on Security
Computer Card Counter Detects Human Card Counters
All it takes is a computer that can track every card: The anti-card-counter system uses cameras to watch players and keep track of the actual "count" of the cards...
From My Biased Coin
Old References
One interesting aspect of our WSDM paper is that we have multiple references from the 1930's and 40's. It turns out our problem is related to some of the problems...
From Schneier on Security
Six Years of Patch Tuesdays
Nice article summing up six years of Microsoft Patch Tuesdays: The total number of flaws disclosed and patched by the software maker so far this year stands at...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Intensive Scientific Discovery
The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific DiscoveryPresenting the first broad look at the rapidly emerging field of data-intensive science ... '
From Computational Complexity
List of books I want reviewed
I have been the SIGACT NEWS Book Review Column Editor for a while now. Every issue I have a list of books that I WANT reviewed. This works pretty well, but I recently...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How to Win Academic Debates
In an academic unit, all professors hold a little bit of power. Yet, unfortunately, professors have nuanced positions. Just like in a democracy, you cannot get...
From My Biased Coin
WSDM Paper : Acceptance Rates
I'm happy to announce our paper "Adaptive Weighing Designs for Keyword Value Computation" -- by me, John Byers, and Georgios Zervas -- was accepted to WSDM 2010...
From The Noisy Channel
Who Will Buy?
Recent years have witnessed dramatic changes in our price sensitivities in every genre of digital (or digitizable) content, and I’m curious (sometimes morbidly...
From Putting People First
An Australian view on user-centred design
Damian Kernahan (featured earlier) just published his second article in Fast Thinking, an Australian innovation quarterly — this time on user-centred design. “Web...
From Apophenia
Teaching, Nursing, and Second-Wave Feminism
I am deeply grateful for all that was accomplished by second wave feminism. I love living in a world in which my job opportunities are not constrained because of...
From Schneier on Security
Helpful Hint for Fugitives: Don't Update Your Location on Facebook
"Fugitive caught after updating his status on Facebook." It's easy to say "so dumb," and it would be true, but what's interesting is how people just don't think...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of October 19
October 21 Hearing: The Elections Subcommittee of the Committee on House Administration will hold a hearing on modernization of election registration. 10 a.m.,...
From The Eponymous Pickle