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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 Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Free E Books from Microsoft
I “borrowed” this list from the Microsoft UK Higher Education blog (Free Microsoft ebooks) Most of these I have linked to in the past but it is nice to have a...
From Wild WebMink
Cloud Risks Article Available
My article on learning from the Wikileaks experience and managing the risks of cloud computing is now available in the Essays section.
From Putting People First
Internet users say, Don
Most Americans don’t want to be tracked on the Internet and are unwilling to trade their privacy for web ads that are tailored to their interests. So suggest the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Vinimaya Introduces New Capabilities
I have mentioned the Vinimaya virtual marketplace package in this blog a number of times. Talked to them about their system. A number of new capabilities have...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Latitude App
Introduced for the IPhone, the Google Latitude App. What this does is share information about the locations of friends that permit it. Obvious applications for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
QR Codes as Magnet for Shoppers
A short Phil Lempert article: QR Codes as a Magnet for Tech Savvy Shoppers with some excellent examples:"Supermarkets will soon have a potentially powerful way...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
White House Issues Federal IT Reform Plan
Last Thursday the national Chief Information Officer (CIO), Vivek Kundra, issued an implementation plan for reforming federal information technology. It's a very...
From Schneier on Security
Proprietary Encryption in Car Immobilizers Cracked
This shouldn't be a surprise: Karsten Nohl's assessment of dozens of car makes and models found weaknesses in the way immobilisers are integrated with the rest...
From Schneier on Security
Sometimes CCTV Cameras Work
Sex attack caught on camera. Hamilton police have arrested two men after a sex attack on a woman early today was caught on the city's closed circuit television...
From Computational Complexity
Math- Old School
In the last month we have reported on NEW RESULTS by Williams, Katz and Guth, Sanders, and Pinkerton and Setra. For a change of pace lets look at some really OLD...
From Putting People First
Out of our brains
Andy Clark, professor of logic and metaphysics in the School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences at Edinburgh University, Scotland, wonders whether...
From Putting People First
The internet and the
As part of a new CNN series on internet and the end of privacy, John D. Sutter reflects on the world of public living — where most everything about a person’s habits...
From Putting People First
Designing for collaborative consumption
Michelle Thorne, international project manager at Creative Commons, spoke at TEDxKreuzberg on Designing for Collaborative Consumption. She posted her slides and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Antikythera Mechanism in Legos
A very sharp correspondent points me to the post on the fastcodesign site about building a model of the Antikythera mechanism using legos. Watch an Apple Engineer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Self Service Business Intelligence
ComputerWorld article on self service business intelligence. Low cost, easy to use tools are becoming more common. " ... It's all about helping business users...
From Schneier on Security
CRB Check Backlash
Against stupid CRB checks: Last January, Annabel Hayter, chairwoman of Gloucester Cathedral Flower Guild, received an email saying that she and her 60 fellow flower...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 13 December 2010
Did you do anything special for Computer Science Education week last week? The one thing I did was to host a group of about 40 students from Easthampton (MA) high...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The Rise of Scientific Journalism
Dissidents from the Wikileaks have founded a competing organization called OpenLeaks. This new organization would differ from Wikileaks in two important ways: (1)...
From Wild WebMink
Mary Oliver Poetry Reading
I was delighted to have found a video of my favourite poet Mary Oliver reading her own poetry at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on August 4, 2001. The...
From The Eponymous Pickle