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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
Google+ is Growing and I Join in
Reports this morning that there are now millions of Google+ users and it continues to grow rapidly. I received an invite a few days ago and started to play with...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Complex Technologies Improve More Slowly
From the Santa Fe InstituteA new study by several SFI-affiliated researchers demonstrates a way to measure the interconnectedness of a technology's components and...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-07-10
Shouldn't Free Mean The Same Thing Whether Followed By 'Culture' Or 'Software'? | Techdirt An excellent point being made here; if it is morally wrong to prevent...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Giving Robot Vacuums a Personality
http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intelligence/how-to-give-robot-vacuums-a-personalityIn IEEE Spectrum:It's surprisingly easy for humans to...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
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From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Agencies, National Science Board Seeking Input
Late last month, the White House announced a request for feedback on “Circular A-21″ — a 7-year-old document that specifies key principles for determining costs...
From My Biased Coin
Using Google Scholar for More Than Your h-Index
The comments from the last post (thanks, David Andersen) spurred me to mention the following.I do check Google Scholar for my own work fairly regularly. Not to...
From Wild WebMink
? Two Favourites in the UK
If you are a UK resident located in the UK (yes, Amazon really has bolted its service down that tightly here), there are free tracks by two of my absolute favourite...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simplifying Human Machine Interaction
HP Labs India design work . Key directions to improve how computers communicate with humans.
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Egg
Interesting pictures. Article is in Italian, though. Google Translate translation.
From Wild WebMink
? Voicemail Cracking
I’m getting tired of all the news reports that are incorrectly accusing the News of the World of
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Interpolated Data for Speedy Cancer Detection
Magnetic resonance imaging is an attractive tool for detecting breast cancer, but its slow speed and poor resolution limit its viability. With hardware and software...
From My Biased Coin
h-index != impact
Suresh and Daniel Lemire (in Google+ posts) have pointed to the following paragraph from this blog: The sad thing is that young people have now been terrified...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-07-08
USTR New Exclusive Right for Copyright Holders: Importation Provision in the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) | Knowledge Ecology International USTR continues...
From Schneier on Security
Organized Crime in Ireland Evolves As Security Increases
The whole article is interesting, but here's just one bit: The favoured quick-fix money-making exercise of the average Irish organised crime gang had, for decades...
From Wild WebMink
? Investing In Open Source
Does your company use open source software? Do they contribute to it in any way? If not, perhaps you should follow the Brazilian government’s lead. Read about it...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google New Search Stuff
Several interesting things in Google, a search by image with should give some hints about how well this can be done today. Similar to Google Googles on mobile...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Policy Highlights from Communications of the ACM
Below is a list of items with policy relevance from the April issue of Communications of the ACM. As always, much of the material in CACM is premium content, and...
From Computational Complexity
Scooped by 400 years
This article claims that finding the area under a curve by dividing up the region into rectangles is helpful. Maybe they could take some sort of... limiting process...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog