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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 The Eponymous Pickle
Twitter as a Gaming Platform
In Readwriteweb: Thinking about Twitter as a gaming platform.I am still convinced that there is real value in overlaying game incentives on serious work. See my...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Getting Some Privacy with Google
I good piece on what you can do to make it more difficult to invade your privacy via Google tools. ' ... Bottom line? Big Brother knows a whole lot more than...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Things You Should Know About Statistics
Good overview piece about statistics. This wont tell you how, but will position your knowledge of when stats can be used, and classic errors in their use. A good...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pure Data
Do you know Pure Data? A way to analyze multi channel music data. Can it also be used for other kinds of real time data streams? More here, the system's site...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Numeracy
In the Freakonomics blog, regarding numeracy. Like literacy, it should be valued. From the comments a quote I had not heard: Oscar Wilde said:
From The Eponymous Pickle
Marketing Power of the Negative
Intriguing piece that is worth considering:" ... Tim Berry has noticed that when two strangers sit next to each other on a plane, the icebreaker that starts a conversation...
From Wild WebMink
? Transparency and Good Will
The SEC and The Python What does open source have to do with open data? This extremely insightful move by the SEC demonstrates that the syntax of open data is not...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
CS Teacher Job Opportuntity
We don't usually do job postings here on the CSTA Advocate blog, but this one is rather special and we want to let you know about the opportunity. Evan Glazer....
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: 500-Million-Year-Old Squid
Early squid: New Canadian research into 500 million-year-old carnivore fossils has revealed an early ancestor of modern-day squids and octopuses, solving the mystery...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Shallows
Nick Carr overviews his newly released book and provides some links to excerpts. ' ... The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains. ... draws on,...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: The Contents of Squid Stomachs
Not that interesting, really. Preliminarily, I can tell you that within my sample, cannibalism seems to be on the rise, myctophid consumption is falling, and a...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
DoD support of university research
Attached is a new DoD directive, reinforcing and clarifying the role of fundamental research at universities.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Value of Mobile Data
In MIT Tech Review: Mobile Data: A Gold Mine for Telcos, A snapshot of our activities, cell phone data attracts both academics and industry researchers. ... '
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Policy Highlights from Communications of the ACM - May 2010 (Vol. 53, No. 5)
Below is a list of items with policy relevance from the May issue of Communications of the ACM. As always, much of the material in CACM is premium content, and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Children More Likely to Own a Mobile than a Book
Are children more likely to own a phone than a book? Not sure what own means here, but I have certainly seen more children with phones than with books lately.
From The Noisy Channel
HCIR 2010 Submission Deadlines Approaching
Just a reminder to all of you HCIR people out there that the submission deadline for the HCIR 2010 Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
CRV 2010
The Seventh Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV 2010) is being held right here in Ottawa next week, and I'll be attending at least a couple of...
From Schneier on Security
Another Scene from an Airport
I've gotten to the front of the security line at a different airport, and handed a different TSA officer my ID and ticket. TSA Officer: (Looks everything over....
From Computational Complexity
The Structure (or lack thereof) of Data
Many of the various "proofs" of P≠NP follow a common theme: Define an NP problem with a certain structure. Argue that any algorithm that solves that problem must...
From My Biased Coin