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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 Schneier on Security
More 9/11 Retrospectives
Joseph Stiglitz on the price of 9/11. How 9/11 changed surveillance. New scientific research as a result of 9/11. A good controversial piece. The day we lost...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Walmart Labs Addresses the ZMOT
Good piece in AdAge on the reason for Walmart Labs: Suggesting that Wal-Mart is in an increasing bind due to the online world. " ... Developments in Search and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAP and Sybase Unwired
After talking with SAP on a panel last week and asking about their mobile business intelligence solutions, they have sent me a link about their SyBase Unwired mobility...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Posterous Becomes Social
I have recommended Posterous for a beginner's blogging engine for beginners. In particular for its ability to work with mobile. I created a few templates for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Our Nature
I am a big fan of Steven Pinker, read a number of his books. On his forthcoming book. The Better Angels of our Nature:Why Violence has Declined.The author of The...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of September 12
September 14 Hearing: The Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit Subcommittee of the House Financial Services Committee will hold a hearing on cybercrime and...
From Computational Complexity
Imagine
Looking back, it's pretty amazing how new technologies like Google, cell phones, Facebook and Twitter have changed society in completely unexpected ways. Let's...
From Schneier on Security
ACLU Report on the War on Terror
This report is really good: "A Call to Courage: Reclaiming Our Liberties Ten Years After 9/11."
From My Biased Coin
Blogging Again?
My thoughts that I would blog more over the summer, during academic "down time", turned out more of a fiction than I would have thought. The summer proved remarkably...
From Wild WebMink
? Writer
Over the weekend I realised how much pleasure I get from listening to Garrison Keillor each day with his small but perfectly formed “Writer’s Almanac” podcast.I’m...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 12 September 2011
After a wonderful long weekend for Labor Day I spent the rest of last week in San Antonio Texas for a series of meetings. This didn
From The Eponymous Pickle
Zapaday
I was just alerted to Zapaday. A site, which has similarities in purpose to Recorded Future, which I have now followed for some time. " ... Editors and bots...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovation Execution
Paul Hobcraft on the execution of innovation. Its easy to build up a portfolio of innovation ideas. Much harder to execute them in a particular context of the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Growth in Data Related Jobs and the Importance of Language
From the Language Log. Language is important when you are looking for employment: " ... At the Revolutions blog, David Smith posts a nice little discussion about ...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
On 9/11 Anniversary,
As our nation pauses today to remember and reflect upon this tenth anniversary of 9/11, we recall the heroic efforts of ordinary citizens in the aftermath of that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Commercial Jetpacks
After so many years it appears that commercial, one person flying jet packs are getting much closer. Legal apparently. Safe? Watch the skies.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Over versus Underpackaging
A talk I gave this week in Chicago alerted me again to the issues involved in packaging products. I recall we were called in to look at how people reacted to packaging...
From The Eponymous Pickle