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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 Schneier on Security
Should the Government Stop Outsourcing Code Development?
Information technology is increasingly everywhere, and it's the same technologies everywhere. The same operating systems are used in corporate and government computers...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Exploring Problem-Solving Processes with Smithsonian and Microsoft
Something for the wider education community. I think we need to do more to teach problem-solving and critical thinking through out the curriculum so this online...
From My Biased Coin
Two Inspiring Posts
Inspiring me to blog, that is....Matt blogs about the psychology of program committees. It's one of those things that would be funny except that it's true. So...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ease of Blogging
Walter Riker expands his new blog on The Ease of Blogging. Read it and follow.-
From Schneier on Security
Leaders Make Better Liars
According to new research: The researchers found that subjects assigned leadership roles were buffered from the negative effects of lying. Across all measures,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Prediction Without Markets
Good overview and link to the original Cornell paper, here an abstract of that:' ... Though theoretical and empirical evidence suggests that markets do often outperform...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-03-30
Tech coalition pushes rewrite of online privacy law This is a welcome development, one we need to see replicated in other subject areas and other countries. Most...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cloud Computing
CACM, the worlds preeminent computing professional society, gives a good view of cloud computing: Clearing the clouds away from the true potential and obstacles...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Geolocation Apocalypse?
The AdAge article is provocatively overblown, but the warnings are worth understanding. Geolocation is one of those tech things that are relatively easy with...
From Computational Complexity
Traveling Too Much
Three recent happenings made me think about the amount I travel.I hit the 50K club (Premier Executive) in United for the first time last year. At first I was excited...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-03-30
Tech coalition pushes rewrite of online privacy law This is a welcome development, one we need to see replicated in other subject areas and other countries. Most...
From Schneier on Security
Jeremy Clarkson on Security Guards
Nice essay: Of course, we know why he's really there. He's really there so that if the bridge is destroyed by terrorists, the authorities can appear on the television...
From The Noisy Channel
CFP: HCIR 2010
The 4th Annual Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval (HCIR 2010) will be held in conjunction with the IIiX 2010 conference in New Brunswick...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Playing Video Games Will Not Get You a Job But Creating One Might
Last week I had a chance to hear Larry Hryb (AKA Major Nelson) of the Xbox Live team talk to a group of college students at Microsoft
From Putting People First
Shoppers choose green products to improve social status
Consumers are willing to sacrifice performance for perceived social status from green products, says the study Going Green to Be Seen: Status, Reputation, and Conspicuous...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The paperless campus: still a long way to go
Today I spent money from a research grant.
From The Eponymous Pickle
What's Behind Procter's Strong Quarter
A very good and relatively detailed article. The short answer: Innovation... What
From Schneier on Security
Master Thief
The amazing story of Gerald Blanchard. Thorough as ever, Blanchard had spent many previous nights infiltrating the bank to do recon or to tamper with the locks...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Official Google CPG Blog on the ZMOT
Brought to my attention by Dave Knox. (His excellent blog) The Google CPG Blog On the Zero moment of truth. One thing I do note is that although they imply they...
From The Eponymous Pickle