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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 Computer Science Teachers Association
Are Your Students Good Problem Solvers, or Good Mimics?
Recently the topic of Computational Thinking has risen to the forefront of discussions of what our students should learn. Ignoring the facts that computational...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How the Brain Reveals Why we Buy
From Sciam, " ... an excerpt from Mindfield: How Brain Science Is Changing Our World by Lone Frank, to be released in the U.S. November 10 ... " A good lay introduction...
From Putting People First
Experientia partner Jan-Christoph Zoels speaks at Visualizar, Madrid
On Friday 13 (!) November, Experientia partner Jan-Christoph Zoels will be one of the speakers at Visualizar’09, an international seminar on public data visualisation...
From Schneier on Security
Zero-Tolerance Policies
Recent stories have documented the ridiculous effects of zero-tolerance weapons policies in a Delaware school district: a first-grader expelled for taking a camping...
From Computational Complexity
Really Liked Bertinoro- Ramsey Thing
(Reminder: STOC Deadline Thursday Nov 5, 7:00PM, Eastern: link.) After yesterday's post about RaTLoCC 2009 (Ramsey Theory in Logic, Combinatorics, and Complexity)...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Consumers More Resourceful
In Supermarket News: Kraft Foods says that consumers are becoming more resourceful. Although I have always viewed myself as resourceful, I have found myself becoming...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predictive Modeling at Transaction Level
Well done - " ... a case study of a simple
From My Biased Coin
Conference Reviews
I promised at some point to get back to discussing the reviewing process for two conferences I am currently on the PC for, NSDI and LATIN. Since I happily just...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Muscle Interface
A 3D pointing interface without any mouse, using EMG sensors. Another attempt at using something other than a dongled mouse for interaction. I tested a foot-mouse...
From Schneier on Security
Detecting Terrorists by Smelling Fear
Really: The technology relies on recognising a pheromone - or scent signal - produced in sweat when a person is scared. Researchers hope the ''fear detector''...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-11-03
Google Redefines Disruption: The “Less Than Free” Business Model Important to understand how this model works as it will be at the core of theGoogle...
From Putting People First
The Times
The New York Times interactive group creates an online encyclopedia of all their stunning inventions, reports Cliff Kuang on Fast Company. “The Times interactive...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IT is not just Overhead
I remember well the Peter Drucker article about corporate overhead mentioned below. I was lucky to have worked at Procter & Gamble under several CIOs that strongly...
From CERIAS Blog
Are We All Aware Yet?
So, here we are, in November already. We've finished up with National Cyber Security Awareness Month
From Putting People First
Student projects explore innovative cellphone uses in developing world
MIT News reports on how MIT students are exploring innovative cellphone uses in the developing world. “Several startup business ventures spawned by MIT students...
From Putting People First
Augmented Reality is overblown
Chris Dannen writes in Fast Company that Augmented Reality is overblown, and doesn’t expect apps like Layar to drastically change the way we live our everyday lives...
From Putting People First
As products become more interactive, the focus shifts to the psychological
“As products become more interactive, the focus shifts to the psychological,” argues Gentry Underwood, who focuses on social media and collaborative software at...
From The Eponymous Pickle
DVR Users Don't Skip
In the NYT. Some fascinating results from the set-top clickstream. Including that a surprising number (46% in 18-49) of people do not fast forward over ads. It...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of November 2
November 4 Markup: The Technology and Innovation Subcommittee of the House Science and Technology Committee will review the Cybersecurity Coordination and Awareness...
From The Eponymous Pickle