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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 Putting People First
The Public Domain: Surveillance in Everyday Life
People create profiles on social network sites and Twitter accounts against the background of an audience. This paper by Alice Marwick argues that closely examining...
From Putting People First
Context is key to making computers better conversationalists
When communicating, context is king. A breakthrough in modelling context in human communication could make computers better conversationalists, according to cognitive...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Postal Strategy
It has been obvious that the US Postal Service needs to adapt to change. Wharton discusses this in some detail. They have changed considerably, introducing many...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Degrees of Separation
In CACM: Reexamining the popular meme of tight connectivity of our social network. The small world. In 2000 we visited the Santa Fe Institute for a workshop...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NIST
“How is the general population of researchers and institutions to meet [the needs of] ‘Big Data’?” That was the question posed last week by Ian Foster, director...
From Computational Complexity
The Ketchup Problem
MIT scientists are working on a bottle of ketchup where you CAN get out every last drop. See here for details and some nice videos of the new bottle in action....
From Schneier on Security
Apple Patents Data-Poisoning
It's not a new idea, but Apple Computer has received a patent on "Techniques to pollute electronic profiling": Abstract: Techniques to pollute electronic profiling...
From Wild WebMink
A Database Ripe For Abuse
The draft Communications Data Bill is of great concern, not primarily because it lacks controls over who can access private data – these will be added – but because...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Greening the Supply Chain
A Wharton special report on practices for sustainability and greening the supply chain. Best practices and future trends.
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
How Important is Gameplay for Educational Games, Anyway?
Gameplay
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Do not waste time with STL vectors
I spend a lot of time with the C++ Standard Template Library. It is available on diverse platforms, it is fast and it is (relatively) easy to learn. It has been...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Can You Hear the Shape of a Quantum Computer?
Debate round 3: Computation cannot hide the physics Mark Kac was a great mathematician, and worked mainly in probability theory. Kac is famous for the Erdős-Kac...
From Putting People First
Nathan Shedroff on the past and future of experience design
Nathan Shedroff (bio), the pioneer in Experience Design, Interaction Design and Information Design, and the chair of the MBA in Design Strategy at California College...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobility in Healthcare IT
In ComputerWorld: Will health care organizations need what is akin to a Chief Mobility Officer? Mobility is a key to efficient healthcare. Linking together...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Thinking About Next School Year
As the rolling schedule of school year openings and closings continues it looks like school is just about done everywhere in the US this week. Today is the last...
From Schneier on Security
Switzerland National Defense
Interesting blog post about this book about Switzerland's national defense. To make a long story short, McPhee describes two things: how Switzerland requires military...
From Putting People First
Spaniards turn to barter, alternative banks to alleviate economic pain
Spanish institutions are in no shape to help struggling Spaniards, so they’re turning to alternative banks and ways of exchanging goods to get by, reports Andr
From The Eponymous Pickle