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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 Computational Complexity
Knuth Prize for 2009: David Johnson
Dave Johnson Won the KNUTH PRIZE for 2009: click here I can't add much to the article linked to except to say that it is well deserved. The Wikipedia entry...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile Apps Changing Retail
A good set of examples in Adage of smartphone Apps that could change retail. Nice breadth of examples, all worth a look, though I would add others. There is still...
From Putting People First
UK innovation policy should refocus on customers
UK Government innovation policy should be refocused to reflect the crucial role played by customers in stimulating and funding the development of new hi-tech companies...
From My Biased Coin
Teaching Bloom Filters
As I finished my lecture today for my undergraduate algorithms and data structures course, after spending about half an hour explaining Bloom filters and what they...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Facebook will Reveal about You
I used to advise people in the early days of the Web about the dangers of revealing too much online. Things have gone far beyond those early days, but it is always...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Coupon Use Beats Newspapers
In Mediapost an intriguing post that further confirms the advance of the digital coupon. ' ... says the report, redemption values on its digital offering outstripped...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apps for the Army Challenge
I worked for the DOD at the Pentagon years ago, they were a very innovative group, its good to see this kind of collaborative work going on. On Apps for the Army...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Optimizing Your Enterprise
The current Baseline Mag has a lengthy article on Business intelligence and analytics, with some useful integrated case studies. ' ... In a world that
From Schneier on Security
More on the Al-Madhouh Assassination
Interesting essay by a former CIA field officer on the al-Mabhouh assassination: The truth is that Mr. Mabhouh's assassination was conducted according to the book...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Say That Again in English
One of the first things I do in the morning is check Twitter. I start with my calendar and my email of course. You never know what your boss may have sent you overnight...
From Wild WebMink
Links Feed Turned Off
I've now turned off the automatic posting to this blog from Delicious. Daily links will now only appear over on my new subscribe to it!
From The Eponymous Pickle
Internet Grows as a News Source
Via Pew and Computerworld. The Internet is continuing to grow as a news source in the US.-
From The Eponymous Pickle
Statistics on the Smartphone
From correspondent Sy Truong, his newly developed paper on SAS and data Macros on the IPhone. I have used his IPhone App. He will present this at the upcoming SAS...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Eye Tracking Mobile Devices
Very interesting piece from the Tobii blog and download of an extensive white paper on the subject. Eye tracking the use of mobile devicesWith a worldwide increase...
From Putting People First
New social innovation lab at Darden business school
(From a Darden press release) On March 19 the Darden School of Business [Charlottesville, VA, USA] and the Batten Institute [an academic research center of the...
From My Biased Coin
Stuff in press
The Economist has a special section this month devoted to The Data Deluge. (Much of it may still be behind their firewall.) Many computer scientists are quoted...
From Computational Complexity
CCC 2010 papers posted (I know- Old News)
As Lance tweeted, the papers for CCC 2010 are posted here. The Guest Speakers look AWESOME!: Knot, Raz, Regev. Also Banquet speaker Hartmanis AWESOME! Based...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Is programming
According to student evaluations, most of my students appreciate short programming assignments. Yet, every year, some students think that programming is below them...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of March 1
March 2 Hearing: The Human Rights and the Law Subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on global internet freedom 10 a.m., 226 Dirksen...
From Putting People First