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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 Computational Complexity
FOCS Travel Support (Guest Post by Paul Beame)
The program for the FOCS 2010 has an excellent set of selected papers and in addition has tutorials on Saturday by Ketan Mulmuley, Mihai Patrascu, and Tim Roughgarden...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 13 September 2010
Lots of good links this week. And if you are visiting via the web I wrote a rare week-end post on Object Oriented Programming.Design that I hope you
From Putting People First
A tech world that centers on the user
I live in the future & here’s how it works Why your world, work, and brain are being creatively disrupted by Nick Bolton Crown Business, Sept. 2010 304 pages Amazon...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Right vs Left Brain
At the enterprise a dozen years ago there was much talk about the difference between left and right brains, engineering and design minds. The specifics of the 'sided...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
New Challenges in the School Year
Back to school. At the K-12 level, it used to mean parents had to deal with the expense of pens, pencils, notebooks, and paper, maybe some art supplies, the occasional...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cute Geographic Maps
Yet another example of a geographic display with relatively little relationship between the geographic structure and the data itself. As I have said before, these...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Graph Networks for Predictive Analytics
Interesting thought here. We used graph network methods for years to understand and optimize supply chains. It is also useful because it can show the relationship...
From Apophenia
Favorite myth-making news articles?
The book that I’m writing is focused on myths that we have about teens and social media. I’m trying to find some good quotes from news media that perpetuate these...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Objects When? If Ever?
This post started as a comment on Mark Guzdial
From The Eponymous Pickle
David Sibbet's Book Launch
I have mentioned it here before ... Colleague David Sibbet's new and provocative book: Visual Meetings. He video posts about his book launch. A descriptive video...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Conference App
Long-time correspondent Sy Truong and his company Meta-Xceed, Inc. have developed an IPhone App for the upcoming SAS Global Forum 2011 Conference. This is an interesting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Barcode Hero Addictive Shoppng Game
Including games into arduous or boring tasks is a good idea, but in a few examples I have seen, has not worked well. Just starting to take a look at this example...
From The Noisy Channel
New Web Site for HCIR Workshop
In 2007, I persuaded MIT graduate students Michael Bernstein and Robin Stewart (who was interning at
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-09-11
Licensing Change for Solaris 10 and Solaris Cluster It's still only an evaluation license, but at least they have got rid of the limited period. (tags: Solaris...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Glucose Meter App for the Android
Via Mark Montgomery of KYield: An example of Smartphone mHealth: A standard meter connected the Android smartphone via a bluetooth connection. Includes a video...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neuromarketing: Fantasy or the Future
In Adage: Is Neuromarketing a Fantasy or the Future? It Could Give Marketers an Edge, but Questions Remain About Effectiveness and EthicsNeuromarketing, and the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook Use Exceeds Google
An interesting result from Comscore: U.S. Web surfers are spending more time socializing on Facebook than searching with Google, according to new data from researchers...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Cephalopod Consciousness
"Three Arguments for the Consciousness of Cephalopods."
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAP EcoHub
SAP has put out what they call the SAP EcoHub Newsletter. You can dive deep and find lots of interesting things there, but I wish they were clearer about what EcoHub...
From Schneier on Security