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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
M-Government
This report by Hani Eskandar (ITU), Barbara- Chiara Ubaldi (OECD) and Vyacheslav Cherkasov (UN-DESA) highlights the critical potential of mobile technologies for...
From Putting People First
It
The argument of this pamphlet, written by Charles Leadbeater for IPPR (the Institute for Public Policy Research, the UK
From Apophenia
The Power of Youth: How Invisible Children Orchestrated Kony 2012
To many people unfamiliar with Invisible Children, the Kony 2012 campaign looked like a brilliant example of “viral” media spread. The center of the campaign is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stopping Email Overload
In the HBR: On stopping eMail overload. With more clients and connections the overload is becoming both broader and shallower. " ... Even if you wanted to use...
From Wild WebMink
? Not So Shire
The Hobbit is one of our local pubs. It’s a rather seedy student-focussed music venue that serves cheap booze under fanciful names taken from Tolkein’s books. I...
From Schneier on Security
On Cyberwar Hype
Good article by Thomas Rid on the hype surrounding cyberwar. It's well worth reading. And in a more academic paper, published in the RUSI Journal, Thomas Ridgeneric...
From Wild WebMink
Worsening Patent Wars
Yahoo’s litigation against Facebook is one more example in an unending sequence that demonstrates patents are now primarily a weapon to chill competition rather...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Tic Tac Toe for Windows Phone
Introduction We are going to create a simple Tic Tac Toe game for Windows Phone. We
From Computational Complexity
How do legit fields of knowledge decide between competing fields? How does Astrology?
Euler was born April 15, 1707. Hence by the Western Astrology that we all ignore he is an Aries. However, I recently heard about another way (also worth ignoring)...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Encyclopedia Britannica's 2010 Issue will be its Last in Print
In a true knowledge milestone, the 244 year old Encyclopedia Britannica will cease print editions with the 2010 edition this year. They will continue to produce...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAS and Hadoop Connector
From Steve Polilli of SAS:" ... SAS published news of a newly available Hadoop access connector, The new Hadoop support allows the industry
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Building Better Rubrics Using Game Design
Game-like grading systems, a sense of playfulness, and more. Ian Schreiber gave a talk for AltDevConf on using principles of game design when teaching and showed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Browsers and Buyers
Roger Dooley gives a good recap of the presentations at the SXSW conference that dealt with neuromarketing and related capabilities.
From Schneier on Security
A Negative Liars and Outliers Review
Ths person didn't like it at all. It'll go up on the book's webpage, along with all the positive reviews.
From Schneier on Security
The Security of Multi-Word Passphrases
Interesting research on the security of passphrases. From a blog post on the work: We found about 8,000 phrases using a 20,000 phrase dictionary. Using a very...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Store Scanning Devices vs Apps
A short piece in the Boston Globe which notes that Stop & Shop is still the only major company that is generally providing in-aisle retail scanning. I worked...
From Wild WebMink
? Writing For InfoWorld
You may have spotted two posts by me on InfoWorld in the US recently (one about LibreOffice and one about OIN). I’m pleased to say that I was approached by them...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAP Seeking to Work With Startups
In the WSJ: An article about how SAP is trying to promote its HANA methods with big data startups. It is naturally difficult for large enterprises to work with...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Weak Neuroimaging Science
Stan Dyck sends along a link to this paper about weak neuroimaging science. I did some work with a company in trying to understand how well neuroscience was being...
From The Eponymous Pickle