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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
10 Most Popular Posts June and July 2010
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Crowd Wisdom in Small Business
A colleage recently talk to me about projects we had proposed using crowd wisdom. A good NYT article on the use of 'Wisdom of the Crowd' plays, broadly defined...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gulf Spill's Lessons for Robotics
In IEEE Spectrum: A number of strategic and tactical lessons learned for robotics during the Gulf spill.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ferrari Quits Barcode Logo
It was one of the major claims in Martin Lindstrom's book: Buyology that the tobacco industry was using subliminal triggers in ads, even when explicit brand logos...
From Schneier on Security
NSA and the National Cryptologic Museum
Most people might not be aware of it, but there's a National Cryptologic Museum at Ft. Meade, at NSA Headquarters. It's hard to know its exact relationship with...
From Putting People First
The strategic arc of interaction design
Steve Baty, principal at Meld Studios and vice president of IxDA, argues in a long article on Core77 that interaction designers now have the opportunity to move...
From Putting People First
Design for social change and the museum
From April 12 through April 14, 2010, 22 designers, historians, curators, educators and journalists met at Rockefeller Foundation
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Drops Wave
In a surprising development Google has decided to drop its Wave social-collaborative capability by year's end. Some of the functionality will be included in other...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Context Aware Computing
In the August IEEE Computer an issue devoted to Context Aware Computing. Including a good video. So what is it and why does it matter far beyond just your location...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
CS Education Gets Congressional Attention
Last week was a huge one for computer science education in the Nation's Capital. Congressmen from both parties introduced two pieces of legislation -- The Computer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AisleBuyer
Just brought to my attention via Andrew Paradies. AisleBuyer A Smartphone based engagement and convenience enhancement idea for retail. An idea we explored atheir...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
CS Education Gets Congressional Attention
Last week was a huge one for computer science education in the Nation's Capital. Congressmen from both parties introduced two pieces of legislation -- The Computer...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
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From Schneier on Security
WikiLeaks Insurance File
Now this is an interesting development: In the wake of strong U.S. government statements condemning WikiLeaks' recent publishing of 77,000 Afghan War documents...
From Wild WebMink
? Career Bets
Its Official Software Will Be Unpatentable In NZ “Despite what appears to be a big-budget lobbying effort by the pro-patent fraternity, Hon Simon Power announced...
From Wild WebMink
Will Illumos Bring OpenSolaris Back To Life?
Today sees the launch of the Illumos Project, heralded last week in a message on the OpenSolaris mailing lists. The announcement caused much excitement, with many...
From Computational Complexity
The Solution to the Mark-Betty Game
RECALL from my last post the following game: Let f(n) be a non-decreasing function from naturals to naturals. Consider the following game: Let n be a large...
From The Noisy Channel
HCIR 2010 Accepted Papers
The 4th Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval (HCIR 2010) is coming up on August 22 in New Brunswick, NJ, taking place immediately after...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Online Marketers Know About You
In Flowingdata: What Online Marketers Know About you. I do like the topic, it is something we should be aware of. I am not sure that the graphics add enough to...
From Schneier on Security