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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 Wild WebMink
links for 2010-08-25
Minimal Competence: Data Access, Data Ownership, and Sharecropping "The ability to get out the data you put in is the bare minimum. All of it, at high fidelity,...
From Schneier on Security
Social Steganography
From danah boyd: Carmen is engaging in social steganography. She's hiding information in plain sight, creating a message that can be read in one way by those who...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Layar Augmented Reality Browser
I recently upgraded to an IPhone 4 so I was able to download the Layar Augmented reality browser. It is also available for the Android. Most interesting aspect...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Lets You Improve the View
Gooogle continues to improve how we can see ourselves geographically, both in understanding what is where, but also in being able to see the view from many points...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Motivates Us
Reading: Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink. A fundamental question for marketers, employers, really anyone. Well written look...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
LaTeX in LyX
If you ever need to write up a paper in LaTeX and you aren't terribly interested in doing it by hand, I'd like to recommend the open source software LyX. It'scrash...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Solar Toothbrush
From the IdeaConnection, a solar toothbrush that kills bacteria.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Demystifying Kyield
Category demystification from Mark Montgomery, CEO of KYield: Demystifying Kyield " ... For the record, we don
From Computational Complexity
NEW math on Futurama
The Aug 19, 2010 episode of Futurama had NEW math in it! It also has some other math refs. This website claims that Ken Keeler, one of the writers who has a...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-08-24
OpenStack Community Update Excellent progress is being made in the OpenStack community, including implementation of support for VirtualBox, which I asked for in...
From Schneier on Security
Skeletal Identification
And you thought fingerprints were intrusive. The Wright State Research Institute is developing a ground-breaking system that would scan the skeletal structures...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Getting Started with Windows Phone 7 Game Development
Announcing the first part of a series of educational resources for learning to create games for Windows Phone 7. Get introduced to Windows Phone 7, and phone...
From My Biased Coin
Various Quick Pointers, Redux
There were many interesting things at the CRA Snowbird conference for CS chairs (which I missed...), but I haven't heard any blog-level discussion of their call...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Seth Godin Rethinks the Book
Seth Godin, well known new media author and blogger, says he is starting to rethink the standard publishing model. Saying that his last book Linchpin, is the last...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Counterintuitive Factors Determining Research Productivity
Permanent researchers publish more when they are in smaller labs. Having many Ph.D. students fails to improve productivity. Funding has little effect on research...
From Apophenia
Social Steganography: Learning to Hide in Plain Sight
[Posted originally to the Digital Media & Learning blog.] Carmen and her mother are close. As far as Carmen’s concerned, she has nothing to hide from her mother...
From Wild WebMink
? OpenSolaris Governing Board Resigns
I’m very sad to report that, as expected, it proved necessary for the OpenSolaris Governing Board to collectively resign today. The motion was as follows: Motion...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile Neuromarketing Webinar
Sand's Research shows some of their unique mobile capabilities which I have now seen a number of times:Why Pretend to be in the Store Aisle? Real time data collection...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Creating Linked Innovation Groups
A case study from HBR provides a number of suggestions about how to create innovation groups, especially for the large global enterprise.Creating Distinct but linked...
From The Eponymous Pickle