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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 Computing Community Consortium Blog
US Ignite & GigU Plenaries Webcast Today & Tomorrow
The NSF’s CISE Directorate and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) are co-sponsoring a pair of workshops on US Ignite and GigU — initiatives...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hearst Founds an App Lab
In Mashable: " ... Hearst unveiled its fabled App Lab to members of the press Thursday. The lab is a plush, windowless, gadget-filled room designed to serve as...
From Geeking with Greg
Quick links
Some of what has caught my attention recently:Oldest example I could find of the "PC is dead" in the press, a New York Times article from 1992. If people keep[1]...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Calling for
The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Division on Research on Learning (DRL) has announced its intent to fund up to 24
From Computational Complexity
An Update on Impagliazzo's Worlds
Russell Impagliazzo gave a talk at Complexity about his five worlds. We didn't know whether Heuristica and Algorithmica were different, i.e., whether if NP is easy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
3M Visual Impact Scanner
Good article on 3M's work in visual impact scanning. We had talked to them years ago about their research to understand its possible use in store and marketing...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-06-09
Investors Speaking Up About Patents Harming Innovation | Techdirt One of the things I keep hearing some advisors saying is that VCs won't invest in your startup...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantitative Scent Test
The launch of a method to better understand reaction to brand scent. A former area of research and retail innovation application of mine. Measurement always helps...
From Putting People First
David Report: Closed Wallets, Closed Minds
We are increasingly suffering from consumption fatigue, but brands and designers have yet to acknowledge the fact, reckons David Carlson in Closed Wallets, Closed...
From Putting People First
Pamphlet: The Internet of People for a Post-Oil World
The Internet of People for a Post-Oil World Christian Nold and Rob van Kranenburg Paperback, 67 pages The Architectural League of New York In Situated Technologies...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Related Finalists in the Innovative Education Forum 2011
Yesterday Microsoft announced the second round of finalists for the Innovative Education Forum. Over in the Teacher Tech blog they listed brief summaries of all...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook Facial Recognition
In GigaOm. FaceBook facial recognition. Technology and reactions to that most personal of possessions, your face. Is it a privacy concern? And are the privacy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dispelling Myths about Industry Clusters
Mark Montgomery of Kyield writes: " .... I was interviewed this week about the New Mexico Analytics Cluster project with an article to be published within theMyths...
From The Noisy Channel
Christos Faloutsos: Mining Billion-Node Graphs
As promised, here is a video of CMU professor Christos Faloutsos‘s recent tech talk at LinkedIn on “Mining Billion-Node Graphs“. Enjoy! And check out our next week’s...
From Schneier on Security
25% of U.S. Criminal Hackers are Police Informants
I have no idea if this is true: In some cases, popular illegal forums used by cyber criminals as marketplaces for stolen identities and credit card numbers have...
From My Biased Coin
ITCS
I was asked to post the call for papers for the (renamed) Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science conference. (I'm glad they finally changed the name -- see...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Open Social Learning Guild
In the ACM: Ashwin Ram on Open Social Learning. Some good ideas about how to take the obsessions of the youner generation and use them to make learning more efficient...
From Computational Complexity