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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
TweetDive Launched
Of interest, a good practical example of associative memories: " ... Saffron's launch of Tweetdive, an open-source demo app showing how associative memory technology...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Traffic Data
Nice visuals in Flowingdata on traffic. Not so much about analysis, but about what the flow of traffic looks like. Augmenting data with color can make insight jump...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teachers Don
I was invited to be on a panel at Northeastern University (I was a last minute fill-in but happy to attend) talking about Teaching With Technology. Now the difference...
From Wild WebMink
? Inside Politics
Shame Peter Mandelson didn’t download some common sense Concise and sensible article is pretty damning of Mandelson over DeBill, and rightly so: “Legislators have...
From Schneier on Security
Storing Cryptographic Keys with Invisible Tattoos
This idea, by Stuart Schechter at Microsoft Research, is -- I think -- clever: Abstract: Implantable medical devices, such as implantable cardiac defibrillators...
From Computational Complexity
New Constructive Aspects of the Lov
Guest Post by Bernhard Haeupler The Lovász Local Lemma (LLL), slightly simplified, states that: Given a set of “bad” events, if for every event A there exists,...
From The Noisy Channel
Google Follow Finder
I know there’s lots of interesting stuff coming out at the Chirp Twitter developer conference this week, and I’m still catching up on it all. But I am happy to...
From The Noisy Channel
Deadline to Register for HCIR Challenge
If you are interested in participating in the HCIR Challenge, please let me know as soon as possible–and in any case by April 30th. The New York Times and the LDC...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Qinghai Quake and Robots
What is it with disasters? They
From The Eponymous Pickle
Buzz Adds Sharing Button
New ways to publish buzz. Have now been using Buzz since its launch. Have been pushing these blog posts and Tweets to it. Works fine among my Google mail correspondents...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Library of Congress to Archive Tweets
The US Library of Congress has announced that it will archive all public tweets. See more in it's blog. To be mine-able, for ever and ever, all your mundane thoughts...
From Schneier on Security
Matt Blaze Comments on his 15-Year-Old "Afterword"
Fifteen years ago, Matt Blaze wrote an Afterword to my book Applied Cryptography. Here are his current thoughts on that piece of writing.
From Computational Complexity
Tom L DVD and Birthday and You Tube and...
April 9 was Tom Lehrer's 82nd birthday! To celebrate I give you breaking news that a Tom L DVD was released April 13, 2010. It seems to have some videos of him...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmenting City Visits
From the CACM: Augmented Reality Brings Movie Magic to City Visits: " ... Using a combination of personalized location-based services and augmented reality, in...
From Putting People First
Psychologist Kahneman on experience and memory
Using examples from vacations to colonoscopies, Nobel laureate and founder of behavioral economics Daniel Kahneman reveals in a February 2010 lecture at TED how...
From Schneier on Security
Externalities and Identity Theft
Chris Hoofnagle has a new paper: "Internalizing Identity Theft." Basically, he shows that one of the problems is that lenders extend credit even when credit applications...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
K-12 Computing Teachers Workshop
The Computer Science Teachers Association sent out an announcement about an upcoming workshop hosted in Partnership with the Anita Borg Institute for Women and...
From Wild WebMink
? Seven Patent Reforms While We Wait For Nirvana
We'll not eliminate software patents overnight, but some reforms might be possible.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
More re DARPA
John Markoff had an extremely interesting profile of DARPA Director Regina Dugan in today’s NY Times.
From The Eponymous Pickle