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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
Carr on Memory and Self
Nick Carr excerpts a chapter of his book: The Shallows, on the concept of aiding memory. Is memory being killed by all our digital memory aids and resources? ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
iPad Providing Comfort in Hospitals
A good example of how an easy to use pad can provide comfort and address boredom in hospitals and nursing homes. Laptops and Smartphones can work there too, but...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CS Community Weighing in on PostDocs
“A funding ecosphere
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Jobless recovery, the luddite fallacy and the 4-hour workweek
The luddite fallacy says that as innovation destroys jobs, just as many new jobs are created. The logic is that increased productivity causes prices to fall, which...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Disney Advertising Lab
Roger Dooley on the Disney Advertising and Media Lab. Surprised they were not doing this earlier. " .. As much as we hear about neuro-cinema and neuro-enhanced...
From Computational Complexity
Three Questions that I think Watson would have trouble with
Here are two questions that were on Jeopardy (the shows slogan: Watch "Jeopardy!", Alex Trebek's fun TV quiz game show!) that I do not think Watson would have gotten...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Science of Business
Evocative piece by always interesting Steve Miller in Information Management:" ... A recent MIT article is making blogger/analyst Steve Miller question whether...
From Schneier on Security
Recently Declassified NSA History Document
"American Cryptography During the Cold War 1945-1989; Book IV: Cryptologic Rebirth 1981-1989." Document was first declassified in 2009. Here are some newly declassified...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 7 March 2011
Are you going to be at SIGCSE in Dallas this week? I get in on Tuesday and with be there until Saturday. I hope that if you are there you will stop by the Microsoft...
From The Noisy Channel
A Practical Rant about Software Patents
Given the controversial content of this post, I’d like to remind readers upfront that this post, like all of the contents of this blog, represents my personal opinions...
From Wild WebMink
? Crowdsourced is not Open Source
I’ve heard quite a few conversations that treat open source interchangeably with crowdsourcing. Despite sounding the same they are very different, most importantly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tobii Prototype Eye Controlled Laptop
The well known eye-tracking company Tobii is a likely origin to this kind of innovation. I would like to understand how stable the control of a laptop can beTobii...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Disarming Internet Trolls
A cognitive therapy method to disarming Internet Trolls. A method that differs from the old approach of not feeding them.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ted Nelson and Content Syndication
We followed the activities and writing of Ted Nelson since the early days of hyperlinks. Met him at a meeting at the Insititute for the Future. More on his latest...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Too Much Information, A Brain activity study
Some interesting questions to ask, from an article in Newsweek:I Can
From The Eponymous Pickle
Literally True
A lovely look at the meaning and uses of the term 'literally' in the Language Log. As usual, the LL is not pedantic as you might think, looking at language as...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Dream. Build. Play. is back for 2011
Honestly if you are a student you REALLY want to enter the Imagine Cup game development competition. Really you do. But if you missed some of the deadlines (tsk...
From Wild WebMink