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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 Computational Complexity
A result of Specker in Recursive Combinatorics
Ernst Specker passed away in December. He has 91. He was not the oldest living mathematician. That title likely belongs to Sergey Nikolsky. A former student ofhere...
From Schneier on Security
The Nature of Cyberwar
This was pretty good, I thought: However, it may be difficult to write military doctrine for many aspects of cyberconflict that are truly revolutionary. Here are...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Posts 30 January 2012
Wow! January if almost over. Groundhog Day coming up this week. I wonder if these is a fun computing project around Groundhog
From Wild WebMink
? ebooks
Digital books are loaned, not sold, so why aren’t they described that way? There’s a big market for digital books, but I think they’re being sold badly, almost...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Community of Startups
Just pointed to: AngelList: AngelList is a community of startups
From Apophenia
World Economic Forum: More than Meets the Eye
I spent the last week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. When my friends (y’all) learned I was going, some were supportive while others were horrified...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Corporate Blogging Decreases
In ReadwriteEntrprise an article discusses a study on the decrease of corporate blogging. Have been blogging since 2001. First inside the enterprise with a group...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More About the Future of Retail
A good piece by Greg Satell in Innovation Excellence on the Future of Retail. Always an important topic here. Can we completely reinvent the retail process in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tibco Social Platform
I admit to having been unaware of the Tibco social platform, Tibbr . I was involved with the enterprise rollout of their Spotfire data visualization package, which...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Artisan Videos
Link to some fascinating artisan videos. Just videos of people who are very skilled in what they do, doing it very well. As the post says, hard not to watch....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Evolution of QR Codes
Report on the use of QR codes and the rapid changes in their effective use. They evolve along with the increased us of smartphones. I was at a local Panera today...
From My Biased Coin
A Good Problem to Have
Last year's enrollment for CS 124 was 53. So far, current enrollment for this year: 119. I imagine a few are still just taking a look and might drop. But a doubling...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Whats Wrong with the Internet?
In the CACM. Bufferbloat: Whats wrong with the Internet. A Group discussion with Vint Cerf, Van Jacobsen, Nick Weaver and Jim Gettys. Good thoughts.Where do...
From Wild WebMink
Mozilla peut-elle apporter l
La nouvelle licence open-source de Mozilla est bien plus qu
From The Eponymous Pickle
SFI and Big Data at Davos
Interesting piece about SFI and the leverage of big data. I am skeptical, it is about leveraging the data, regardless of size or complexity.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cisco Simplifying Interfaces
A really good idea. We worked with Cisco from the early days of their looking at advanced collaboration. it is good to see them thinking a simplified and unified...
From Geeking with Greg
More quick links
More of what has caught my attention lately:Laptops with Kinect sensors are coming. Worth paying attention to, gesturing in air to issue commands, a very different...
From Wild WebMink