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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 My Biased Coin
Blog Retrospective
I started blogging a little over 3 years ago, as something of an experiment. Lance had given up blogging, and I had been a reasonably frequent and opinionatedKleinberg's...
From Schneier on Security
High School Teacher Assigns Movie-Plot Threat Contest Problem
In Australia: A high school teacher who assigned her class to plan a terrorist attack that would kill as many innocent people as possible had no intent to promote...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
When Having a Lot of Facebook Friends is Good
Some people scoff at those who have too many friends on Facebook. "They probably just friend a bunch of people they don't know to look popular," they say. While...
From Wild WebMink
Causality Essay Published
In response to several comments, I’ve just extracted my discussion of direct and indirect causality from my recent article on why “which licence” is now the wrong...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Review Your Offering
Want your service, book, software or consulting skills presented to an elite audience here in review form? See my Ad and review policies here. -----------------...
From Schneier on Security
Misidentification and the Court System
Chilling: How do most wrongful convictions come about? The primary cause is mistaken identification. Actually, I wouldn't call it mistaken identification; I'd...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Simons Foundation to Fund New Institute for the Theory of Computing
The Simons Foundation will provide up to $6 million/year in funding for a new Institute for the Theory of Computing. The call for applications recognizes the deep...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Independent Review of Recorded Future
I have now mentioned Recorded Future a number of times in this space, here is another independent review that does a good job of introducing it for niche research...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Write a Twitter application in 5 minutes
I spend much time alone, writing and thinking.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tag Strategy at Wal-Mart
More in Storefrontbacktalk about Wal-Mart's RFID tagging strategy.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Bread Crumbs
So if you don't have GPS, can you use digital bread crumbs to track your movements?
From Wild WebMink
? Thinking of OOoCon
Hungarian Parliament, originally uploaded by webmink. My best wishes to all my friends attending the OpenOffice.org conference in Budapest this week. With all of...
From Wild WebMink
? Holiday Gift
Vanguard Records Sounds of Summer MP3 Sampler Not 100% to my taste, but some of the tracks are very good (I like Robert Cray and Stacy Clark) but the whole thing...
From Computational Complexity
New Institute for Theory of Computing
The Simons Foundation has announced a competition to establish a new Institute for the Theory of Computing in the United States. Computation (and its abstractTTI...
From Schneier on Security
Security Theater on the Boston T
Since a fatal crash a few years ago, Boston T (their subway) operators have been forbidden from using -- or even having -- cell phones while on the job. Passengers...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Manifesto for Half-Arsed Academic Research
Research results are more important than the number of publications or citations. This is fine. Yet, we don’t have time to read your papers. So, just keep publishing...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Posts 30 August 2010
One of the things I tell people when they ask me about why I came to work for Microsoft is that the company has grown up in many ways over the years. One of those...
From Wild WebMink
GNU/Linux
Some ancient source code given away freely by Sun in 1984 turned out to have a non-Free-software licence all these years, upsetting the licensing purity of glibc...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brandery Welcomes Inaugural Class
Dave Knox welcomes the inaugural class to a concept he calls the Brandery on Monday. " ... If you
From The Eponymous Pickle