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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
Domain-Specific Language (DSL)
Admit I had not heard of this concept, nicely outlined and detailed in the CACM. Mistaking it for the phone line communication protocol. But it means something...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Other Things People are Doing
ReadwriteWeb reports on studies about other things people are doing at the same time they are using mobile devices. Beyond just driving. The sometimes danger of...
From Wild WebMink
Garden Monster
Garden Monster, originally uploaded by webmink. Spotted this vapourer moth caterpillar eating the leaves on one of my blueberry bushes. Glad it’s only 3cm long
From My Biased Coin
SODA in Japan
I hadn't even noticed SODA was in Japan before submitting. I just figured wherever it was I'd be willing to go, as January in Boston is a fine time to be elsewhere...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pepsi and FourSquare
Pepsi makes the first attempt at taking Foursquare global. Good case study of generalizing the idea, which has been largely North America. " .... In what appears...
From Wild WebMink
? Dis Harmony
Project Harmony Considered Harmful Bradley Kuhn of the Software Conservancy is clearly opposed both to Project Harmony’s work products and sponsors. In short, Project...
From Schneier on Security
Insurgent Groups Exhibit Learning Curve
Interesting research: After analyzing reams of publicly available data on casualties from Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and decades of terrorist attacks, the scientists...
From Computational Complexity
FOCS Accepts
This list of FOCS accepts are out, with abstracts, with PDF links (via Kintali) and in Algorithmic Game Theory (Nisan) and Algorithms (Eppstein). The FOCS Conference...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CS & IT Conference Day 1 - 2011
This year CSTA is trying a bunch of new things with the CS & IT Conference. First off we added a workshop day on the front end. So yesterday there were a number...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SearchTeam Emerges
I have seen some fascinating early versions of SearchTeam, the real-time collaborative search engine from Zakta.. A great idea, think of it for collaborative use...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Plus and Social Ads
After some playing around with Google+, what I have seen is that it looks much like Facebook. With a few nice, easily copy-able features. Hard to see Google+...
From Geeking with Greg
Google and suggesting friends
A timely paper out of Google at the recent ICML 2011 conference, "Suggesting (More) Friends Using the Implicit Social Graph" (PDF), not only describes the technology...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reintroduction of TagWhat
I see that TagWhat, an artificial reality vendor has just reintroduced their product. Here is their press release It is delivered via a smart phone and can provide...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Top Digital Marketer
I was just reminded by a communication that Ilonka Laviz was appointed top digital marketer at P&G.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Are your students entered in the Windows Phone app contest
This Summer, build Windows Phone 7 apps and you could earn exciting prizes to catch a movie, eat ice – cream, buy camping gear and more!! This special competition...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Sentience is indescribable
Arguably, one of the most nagging scientific question is the nature of sentience. Can we build sentient computers? Is my cat sentient? What does that mean? Will...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science