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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
Online Storefronts
Engadget asks what works. We examined this almost a decade ago. I thought about it for a real application. Was there a requirement, or any value in mimic-ing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Evernote Acquires Penultimate for Handwriting
I see that the Evernote note-taking company has acquired the Penultimate handwriting capture system. More details here. I have used and enjoyed Evernote on...
From Computational Complexity
Alan Turing (1912-1954)
Today we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Alan Turing, remembering his incredible life and mourning his tragic death. Alan Turing simply askedwebcast...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Badgeify Acquires Gamification
An interesting change among gamification vendors and underlying information organization. I have enjoyed and found useful the gamification.org wiki for examples...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Re-imagining Online Advertising
The documentary. Google re-imagines what online advertising will become in their project Brief. Interesting to see what they are up to, especially considering...
From Wild WebMink
Whatever Happened To OpenSolaris?
Oracle probably thought they’d killed OpenSolaris after they bought Sun and focussed so many resources on Sun’s hardware business. But that sort of thinking would...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Maps Coordinate
New: Google mapping and location infrastructure, used to manage field crews. An analytics application.
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Mutant Squid at the Queen's Jubilee
I think this is a parody, but you can never be sure. Millions of Britons turned out for the Queen
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crowdsourcing Forest Monitoring
In Google Lat Long: Having been involved in several crowd sourcing efforts, its always good to see further and more complex examples. Mapping would seem to be...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Taking Advantage of the Interest in Games
I am writing this at the Games, Learning and Society Conference (http://www.glsconference.org/2012/index.html) in Madison, Wisconsin. This is an interesting and...
From Putting People First
Anthropologist Gabriella Coleman Studying Hacker Culture
As a grad student in anthropology, Gabriella Coleman was warned that studying the culture of computer hackers would make it hard to get a job teaching in a university...
From Schneier on Security
Economic Analysis of Bank Robberies
Yes, it's clever: The basic problem is the average haul from a bank job: for the three-year period, it was only
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Cricket, 400, and Complexity Theory
A random cross-section of our first 400 posts (src) Brian Lara remains the only cricket batsman to score 400 or more runs in one innings of a Test Match. In fact...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
My STEMinist Profile
Back in April, I was featured on STEMinist and forgot to mention it here!Find out what my answers were to such questions as 'What inspired you to pursue a career...
From The Eponymous Pickle
VSN Strategies
I have just become involved in a new collaboration with James Tenser of VSN Strategies. " ... Consultant to the retail consumer products industry and authorSee...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Science in the Common Core
Anyone who reads this blog regularly knows that I really believe that we need more computer science in education long before university. The only national influence...
From Schneier on Security
Far-Fetched Scams Separate the Gullible from Everyone Else
Interesting conclusion by Cormac Herley, in this paper: "Why Do Nigerian Scammers Say They are From Nigeria?" Abstract: False positives cause many promising detection...
From Apophenia