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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
Kurzweil Joins Google
The futurist proposer of the approach of an inevitable people-machine singularity, Ray Kurzweil, has joined Google as an employee. In GigaOM. Apparently tothe...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Giant PVC Squid
Neat art project. Another link. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
An Update on Tracking My Time
You may recall back in September that I was bringing back time sheets to help myself manage my time between looking after my baby girl and doing schoolwork. Now...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
International Enrollment in US Computer Science Colleges
Are international students brilliant innovators that should catch a ride on the STEM and CS train in U.S. colleges? I am Computer Science teacher in an American...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Persistence of Association
An interesting interaction between odor and sound in sleep. Non conscious interaction between senses and the brain in contexts. " ... Sleep appears to play...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computer Engineers Search for Ways to Keep Microcircuits Cool
A recent article in Nature, highlights a major challenge that computer engineers are facing. As the size of microcircuits decreases, the higher their temperature...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smartphones for Checkout Lines
QThru, another example of aisle checkout, here is described in Geekwire. Another example of this general play, described here previously, is AisleBuyer. Store...
From Schneier on Security
Book Review: Against Security
Against Security: How We Go Wrong at Airports, Subways, and Other Sites of Ambiguous Danger, by Harvey Molotch, Princeton University Press, 278 pages, $35 Security...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Engage With Superfans
In Adage: What seem like some good advice. Engage with your super fans and help them go viral with two way communications. Engage mavens and communicators.
From Apophenia
ICWSM-13, run by Emre Kiciman
I’m pleased to announce that the CFP for ICWSM-13 is now live. In late October, it was announced that Ethan Zuckerman and I were running the conference. Due to...
From Putting People First
Are the older generation getting tech-savvy?
BBC News has published a 5 minute video feature on Cambridge University’s Design Centre where they test how elderly people use technology. Must-have modern gadgets...
From Putting People First
McKinsey’s iConsumer Global Research Initiative
Recent reports from McKinsey’s iConsumer Global Research Initiative: Moving from “mobile first” to “touch first” December 2012 (published on the EconomistGroup...
From Schneier on Security
The History of Security Economics
Ross Anderson recalls the history of security economics (presentation and paper.)
From Wild WebMink
MariaDB Foundation
I interviewed Monty Widenius and Andrew Katz about the new MariaDB Foundation. There’s more in my column for InfoWorld today.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Calling all US High School CS Teachers: Please give us your thoughts!
You may be seeing this announcement on other blogs or websites. If so I apologize for the repetition. But I do believe this is an important project. An important...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
When Less Is More
Claiming less may be a good idea Robert Browning was an English poet of world renown in the Victorian age. His fame rests mostly on his dramatic monologues, in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bar Code Inventor Dies
I worked with identification technology technologies for years. Bar codes were a simple solution to a simple problem with wide ranging, complex applications .....
From The Eponymous Pickle
App Economy
Some fascinating statistics regarding the 'App Economy' and how it varies regionally. Working with startups it is frequently the complaint that we could better...
From Wild WebMink