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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
The Year of Social Collaboration
If it is this year or next, I agree. Have been involved in many attempted methods at this. If it wouldn't always also get in the way as well. 2010's Collaboration...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
New Teaching & Learning Resources for XNA and Web
Last week Microsoft put several curriculum modules on on the higher education part of the Faculty Connection. While aimed at the college/university space I think...
From Putting People First
Can smiley faces save the global climate?
When rational appeals fall short, environmentalists enlist social and economic incentives–and even neuroscience–to get the public in on national efforts to combat...
From My Biased Coin
More on SIGCOMM
The first round of SIGCOMM is pretty much done. (As usual, many reviews are still out, though the deadline has passed.) I had mentioned earlier that my firstby...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
MIT
MIT’s Dean of Engineering, Subra Suresh, has been nominated to be the new Director of NSF.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Engineering the Web's Third Decade
Very insightful piece, a reminder that the Web is very young and evolving. That could create lots of new problems and opportunities for business:From the CACM:...
From The Eponymous Pickle
'Checking in' to a Box of Tampax for Charity
In Adage: " ... The CauseWorld App Gives Consumers Something Else to Do With Foursquare, Gowalla and Loopt, Would you check in to a box of Tampax like you'd check...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Perils of Market Research
In Bloomberg Businessweek: What can and cannot be measured with some market research tools. Very good introduction to the inadequacies of the survey. ' ... It-...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Getting Yelped
In BusinessWeek, A new dynamic, but not any different than newspapers have experienced in the past. Also spaks to the motivation of review/criticisms in general...
From Computational Complexity
Repost on Turing and Wasserman- lets talk about...
One of the commenters on the post on the recent Turing Award and the Waterman award pointed out that the context I gave lead to a discussion that was NOT aboutCan...
From Schneier on Security
Secret Questions
Interesting research: Analysing our data for security, though, shows that essentially all human-generated names provide poor resistance to guessing. For an attacker...
From Putting People First
MicroPublicPlaces
Situated Technologies Pamphlet 6: MicroPublicPlaces Spring 2010 Marc B
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Windows Phone 7 Series Programming
Programming phones seems to be the hot new thing these days. Yesterday Microsoft announced the availability of free programming tools for the new Windows PhoneVisual...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter Visualizing Plant Designs
From Consumer Goods Technology: P&G using visualization to optimize plants via fast prototyping. Includes images and vendors involved. Plant design and improvement...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Geotagging the Future
Daniel Inniss makes some useful comments on Geotagging and business:'Geotagging the Future with Foursquare, Gowalla and TwitterWritten Location based services are...
From Schneier on Security
USB Combination Lock
Here's a promotional security product designed by someone who knows nothing about security. The USB drive is "protected" by a combination lock. There are only...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
External-memory shuffling in linear time?
You can sort large files while using little memory. The Unix sort tool is a widely available implementation of this idea. Files are written to disk sequentially...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Eric Brewer wins ACM
Eric Brewer has won the ACM – Infosys Foundation Award “for his contributions to the design and development of highly scalable Internet services.”
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Chuck Thacker wins Turing Award
Chuck Thacker has won the ACM A.M. Turing Award (quoting ACM) “for his pioneering design and realization of the Alto, the first modern personal computer, and the...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson