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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 Wild WebMink
links for 2011-08-24
Beware: Europe's 'unitary patent' could mean unlimited software patents | Technology | guardian.co.uk Stallman is right to call the alarm on unitary patents. We...
From Schneier on Security
Stealing ATM PINs with a Thermal Camera
It's easy: Researchers from UCSD pointed thermal cameras towards plastic ATM PIN pads and metal ATM PIN pads to test how effective they were at stealing PIN numbers...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Languages That Make You Think
The old joke used to be that
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Athena Project
I just discovered Christian Renaud's Athena Project: " ... The Athena Project is being developed to engage 21stCentury students using virtual learning environments...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Public Domain Review
So with all the knowledge out there on the Web, what is really out there in the public domain? Copyright laws continue to extend the extent of protection. Ororphaned...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Future of Tablets
A ComputerWorld look at a number of innovations that will lead to changes in tablet design and function.
From Schneier on Security
Smartphone Keystroke Logging Using the Motion Sensor
Clever: "When the user types on the soft keyboard on her smartphone (especially when she holds her phone by hand rather than placing it on a fixed surface), the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Patent For Data Optimization in Workplace
Great to hear, congratulations to Mark Montgomery, who I have corresponded with for years. Read the whole thing on the link below. See also theKYield site. ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Promoting Creativity
In the Harvard Business Review Working Knowledge: All about promoting creativity. " ... We tend to think of the moment of insight and creativity in sudden and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Using Badges in Games
Properly Using Badges To Engage Customers. Some good thoughts on how to use the concept of 'badges' when doing gamification. I still have my doubts about using...
From Wild WebMink
? The Long Road To Software Freedom
At the Community Leadership Summit in Portland back in July, I moderated a session called “The Death Star User Group”, aimed at community managers working for large...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
AppInventor Goes to New Home
My heart sank a few weeks ago when Google announced that they would be dropping AppInventor as part of their decision to get rid of Google Labs. Like many of you...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CIFellow Miriah Meyer Named to TR35
Congratulations to Miriah Meyer, one of our 2009 Computing Innovation Fellows — and now faculty at the University of Utah’s School of Computing – who was just named...
From Computational Complexity
What inspired you to work on... whatever you work on?
Grad students often wonder how people get ideas of things to work on. The usual advice I give is (1) go to talks, (2) read papers, (3) talk to people, (4) follow...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
DEV 2012 Calling for Papers
The organizers of the second annual symposium on Computing for Development (DEV 2012) — to be colocated with the
From Putting People First
Book: Applying Anthropology in the Global Village
Applying Anthropology in the Global Village Christina Wasson (Editor); Mary Odell Butler (Editor); Jacqueline Copeland-Carson (Editor) 288 pp. – Nov, 2011 Left...
From Schneier on Security
Security for Implanted Medical Devices
Worried about someone hacking your implanted medical devices? Here's a signal-jamming device you can wear.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
There Is Research On That
Computers are good at games. Well sort of. Computers are good at following rules and making decisions based on rules that are programmed into them. These rulesresearch...
From Schneier on Security
Cheating at Casinos with Hidden Cameras
Sleeve cameras aren't new, but they're now smaller than ever and the cheaters are getting more sophisticated: In January, at the newly opened $4-billion Cosmopolitan...