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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 Daniel Lemire's Blog
On the design of design
Following a blog post by John D. Cook, I started reading Fred Brooks‘ latest book. Brooks is famous, among other things, for his earlier book, the Mythical Man...
From Schneier on Security
Terrorist Attacks and Comparable Risks, Part 2
John Adams argues that our irrationality about comparative risks depends on the type of risk: With "pure" voluntary risks, the risk itself, with its associated...
From The Eponymous Pickle
McDonalds Social Media Chief
How can it not be serious of McDonald's has just added its first social media chief?-
From My Biased Coin
What's the Co-Author Line?
Continuing the past discussion on authorship issues, I've been considering the questions: at what point has a person involved in the project done so little work...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Epic Systems Trend Compass
I was just sent a promo piece by Epic Systems on their visualization system called Trend Compass. With a brief examination, it creates bubble charts and includes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Office vs Google Docs
Have been an Office user since the beginning and just in the last year have started to use some of Google Docs. Some new features, like easier sharing have made...
From Computational Complexity
Choosing a Graduate School
Besides being tax day, Thursday is the deadline to decide where to attend graduate school. How should you choose? I've blogged on this topic before but a few recent...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Celebration a Success!
Last week Carleton's Women in Science and Engineering hosted the very first Carleton Celebration of Women in Science and Engineering, and it was a great success...
From Schneier on Security
Terrorist Attacks and Comparable Risks, Part 1
Nice analysis by John Mueller and Mark G. Stewart: There is a general agreement about risk, then, in the established regulatory practices of several developed...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Visual Studio 2010 Now Available
Well it is official
From Wild WebMink
? Digital Liberty Missing From UK Election
Take action to put digital liberty issues on the British election agenda. #ge10
From The Eponymous Pickle
Twitris at Knoesis
Demonstrated at the Kno.e.sis Center at Wright State University today: Twitris, a semantic technology based social signal analysis system, where you can Twitter...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simulating Evacuation
In ACM News: simulating the evacuation of 70,000 avatars from an e-stadium. We did a number of projects that deal with the simulation of shoppers in a store, so...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Will Gen Y Lead us into Recovery?
Report Sees Recovery Led by Gen Y: ' ... Members of Generation Y, not baby boomers, have money to spend and will end the recession with their purchases, says a...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Google Map Maker Locations
I was reminded of Google Map Maker by this post. A means for users to share more about their part of the world. It appears to continue to prosper, with many new...
From Putting People First
Putting People First content partner of Appliance Design
Putting People First has become a content partner of Appliance Design, the site of the US-based magazine of the same name that caters to designers and engineers...
From Schneier on Security
Man-in-the-Middle Attacks Againt SSL
Says Matt Blaze: A decade ago, I observed that commercial certificate authorities protect you from anyone from whom they are unwilling to take money. That turns...
From Putting People First
Mobile app developers tackle Africa
Mobile app developers are sprouting in Africa to help tackle that continent’s problems. Many create applications that can be used with phone text messages. The...
From Computational Complexity
Deriving sum of squares: How much to cheat?
In discrete math (or other courses) we teach AND DERIVE the formula for 1+2+3+...+n. We then look at the sum 12+22+...+n2. Here there are some options. State...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM