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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
Why Creative Ideas are Rejected
In CACM: Why creative ideas are rejected, and what you can do about it. A short article with some good thoughts.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Where does innovation comes from?
I just finished Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley. Because I am an overly pessimistic individual, I expected to hate the book. I loved the book. I should point out...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Web Services Choreographies
This concept was new to me. An outline article currently in Computing Now: " ... researchers have looked at service composition from two complementary pointsRelated...
From Computational Complexity
If you find a mistake in someone elses paper you should....
What do you do if you read a paper or book and find mistakes in it? My first impulse is to say: Email the author. Always be polite and admit (which is true) that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Windows in Your Stuff
In ReadWriteWeb on Are You Ready for Windows in Your Things? " ... Microsoft is launching exactly that - a kind of consumer awareness campaign around the emergence...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Launching
At 11am EDT today, National Science Foundation (NSF) Director Subra Suresh — joined by numerous U.S. and international researchers, government officials, and National...
From Schneier on Security
Insider Attack Against Diebold Voting Machines
This is both news and not news: Indeed, the Argonne team's attack required no modification, reprogramming, or even knowledge, of the voting machine's proprietary...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Conversations in Kodu
Recently the Kodu team announced a new version of Kodu and a new Kodu Community Website. You can read a lot of the details at Announcing the Kodu v1.2 and the Kodu...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Growing Trust
In August USACM submitted comments on the draft green paper
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovation Inspired by Nature
Bio-mimicry is innovation inspired by nature. We explored it to broaden the potential solutions to difficult problems we encountered. A good introduction here...
From Putting People First
New Master in UX in Rome, Italy
The La Sapienza University in Rome is organising the first User Experience Master for students who already have a previous degree. Although a highly laudable initiative...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G and Innovation
In the local press: P&G's CEO Bob McDonald gives an urgent call to action to improve innovation. Particularly speaks to the local culture of innovation. I agree...
From Putting People First
Investigating the experience of love for products
“Shoes, cars and other love stories: Investigating the experience of love for products is the title of the doctoral dissertation (and a book!) by Beatriz Russo...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wharton on Kindle vs iPad
Short piece on the match up. The economics of the price and the channel implications will make a difference.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NASA to Run International Space Apps Challenge
Late last month, NASA announced that it plans to run an International Space Apps Challenge in 2012, bringing together officials from international space agencies...
From Schneier on Security
National Cybersecurity Awareness Month
October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security. The website has some sample things you can do to to celebrate...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Quality of Testing and Quality of Code
I see a good number of Tweets in my Twitter stream that just flash by without leaving any impression. Chatty comments between people I barely know (if at all),...
From Wild WebMink
? LibreOffice Is One
I seem to have been using it for ever, but LibreOffice is actually just one year old. I’ve written a sketch of its story and a first-year evaluation over on ComputerWorldUK...
From The Eponymous Pickle