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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 Daniel Lemire's Blog
When is a bitmap faster than an integer list?
You can represent a list of distinct integers no larger than N using exactly N bits: if the integer i appears in your list, you set the i th bit to true. Bits for...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Boring Projects
Recently someone I really respect posted a recommendation against using Visual Basic saying “ I find most textbooks for Visual Basic to have boring assignmentsSkins...
From Wild WebMink
Concentration of Power
Hearing that Amazon had remotely wiped someone’s Kindle, I decided to investigate and find out if it had actually happened. It hadn’t, but what had happened instead...
From updated sporadically at best
Why Do Women Want to "Have It All?"
Last week, former State Department director Anne-Marie Slaughter's Atlantic piece "Why Women Still Can't Have It All" spurred a flurry of internet discussion: there...
From updated sporadically at best
FAQ: Applying to Graduate School for Computer Science
Over the years, I have gotten various e-mails asking me about what it is like to be a graduate student at MIT and how to apply. I have compiled this list of frequently...
From Putting People First
How Xerox uses analytics, big data and ethnography to help government solve “big problems”
Through the application of analytics to Big Data, as well as ethnography — the design and implementation of qualitative field studies to observe cultural patterns...
From Computational Complexity
Song of the Complexity Classes
I tweeted the audio of this song last week and here is the video. Recorded at Dagstuhl on October 18th. Written by Fred Green who also plays piano. Performed by...
From Schneier on Security
Camera Jammer that Protects Licence Plates
noPhoto reacts to a camera flash, and then jams the image with a bright light. The website makes the point that this is legal, but that can't last.
From Putting People First
Smartphone ethnography apps
The Qualitative Report website contains a very hard to find but highly recommended page on smartphone ethnography apps (or, as they call it, “Mobile and Cloud Qualitative...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 22 October 2012
Earthquake! Yes earthquakes are rare in New England where I live but we had one last week. Shook things up a bit. Not injuries or damage as it was a mild one as...
From Wild WebMink
About OSI
I recorded a short interview explaining OSI Membership while I was at Open World Forum. Thanks to openworldforum.tv for the opportunity to tell people how to join...
From My Biased Coin
Giving a Teleseminar
The nice folks at Texas A&M asked me to give a teleseminar as part of their series. So instead of flying all the way to Texas to give a talk, I did so from the...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Algorithms At Oxford
A report on a recent workshop at Oxford University Joël Ouaknine, Georg Gottlob, and Andreas Pieris are faculty at Oxford University in St. John’s College. They...
From Wild WebMink
South Tyrol Soon
Coming up on 16th November: SFSCon in Bolzano, Italy. While we wait for the details, here’s a reminder of what the place is like:
From Computational Complexity
Short Announcements
With a shout out to the friendly folks attending FOCS this week, some short announcements. Read the STOC CFP before you submit the paper. There are significant...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Stereotypes That Refuse To Die
One of the areas on Facebook is called Trust Me I’m an “Engineer.” where humorous (for sometimes interesting definitions of humorous) images are posted. I don’t...
From Wild WebMink
Be Still With Me
Imogen Heap’s new song is probably the best so far on her gradually-emerging new album. Personally I’m ready for some “still” time.
From Geeking with Greg
Quick links
What caught my attention recently: The latest Google and Microsoft earnings show damage from a tech disruption, a shift to mobile that is impacting both badly[1]...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Insurance
This was once a real insurance product. Squid Insurance Marketing was the low-end offering at Astonish, complete with the tagline "Nothing Kills a Squid!" As...
From Putting People First