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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 Wild WebMink
Thaw
Icicles, originally uploaded by webmink. The thaw in the Deep South is in full swing; even these icicles have dripped away from the office window now.
From Schneier on Security
Thinking About Obscurity
This essay is worth reading: Obscurity is the idea that when information is hard to obtain or understand, it is, to some degree, safe. Safety, here, doesn't mean...
From My Biased Coin
Here Comes Another One
And yet another security story -- this one titled find a bug, get expelled or something close to that in various places. I'm going to have to find out where I send...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facial Analysis and the Brand
In Mediapost: A good example of a non conscious detection of brand engagement i.e. 'neuromarketing' capability. Here using the analysis of faces during stimulus...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Is learning useless stuff good for you?
We often require all students to learn things they may never need like latin, calculus, advanced trigonometry and classical literature. The implicit assumption...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tablet Adoption in the Enterprise
A broad overview of rising adoption of iPad's in the enterprise. Interesting stats. I do not like the use of the slide show format for this kind of information...
From Schneier on Security
TSA Removing Rapiscan Full-Body Scanners from U.S. Airports
This is big news: The U.S. Transportation Security Administration will remove airport body scanners that privacy advocates likened to strip searches after OSItwo...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Too Many Patents
In Hoover. I have seen a great deal of junk and arbitrary thoughts patented. With the hope of bullying money from companies. There is much need for reform. Some...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links Post 21 January 2013
One week until I face a new group of students. Unlike classroom visits in recent years these students are “mine” full time for a semester. Excited to say the least...
From Wild WebMink
Governance Lessons from Vert.x
The open discussion that the Vert.x community ended up having because of Tim Fox’s original announcement and the ripples it caused has produced fruit, in the shape...
From The Eponymous Pickle
True Impact Neuromarketing
Recently connected with Diana Lucaci of True Impact Marketing in Toronto. A Canadian firm that does neuromarketing studies. I was impressed with their list of...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Vint Cerf appointed to National Science Board by President Obama
On January 16, President Obama announced his intention to appoint Vint Cerf – Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist at Google – to the National Science Board...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
PCAST releases new assessment of Networking and Information Technology Research and Development
In 2010, the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) conducted a major review of the Federal government’s $4B multi-agency research and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Information Literacy
I had cause to look at the Information Literacy Blog yesterday. Articles covering information collaboration, which you can see have been of interest to me lately...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Concern About Millenials
I have always thought that concerns about adapting to epochal population groups are overplayed. My own experience has been that it is true that there are differences...
From Putting People First
Book: Ethnography and the City – Readings on Doing Urban Fieldwork
Ethnography and the City: Readings on Doing Urban Fieldwork Richard E. Ocejo (Editor) Routledge, 2012, 272 pages (Amazon link) The only collection of its kind on...
From Putting People First
The irrational consumer: why economics is dead wrong about how we make choices
“The New Science of Pleasure,” a new paper by Daniel L. McFadden, reviews how psychology, biology, and neurology are ganging up on economics to prove that, when...
From Writing
MySQL error: last packet sent to the server was XXX ms ago
I just spent a few weeks battling a strange, infrequent, hard-to-reproduce error when using JDBC to talk to MySQL. After about a dozen experiments, I think I've...
From Wild WebMink
Snowy Branches
Snowy Branches, originally uploaded by webmink. Snow is something of a novelty where we live, despite being in England. The mildness that results from being on...
From The Eponymous Pickle