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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
The Future of Universities
When AT&T had its monopoly, it could afford Bell Labs, a major research institution that bragged at having more Ph.D.s than any other university. Now very few companies...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Announces a Brain Chip
IBM has announced a new chip " ... an experimental computer chip that emulates the way the brain processes information. IBM
From The Eponymous Pickle
Drug Vending Machines
Vending machines. Having seen them used to considerable effect in Japan, have always been interested in their application. Now they are vending drugs.
From Wild WebMink
? Is WebOS Android
Read about my discussion of WebOS with HP’s open source officer at OSCON, over on ComputerWorldUK now.
From Schneier on Security
New Attack on AES
"Biclique Cryptanalysis of the Full AES," by Andrey Bogdanov, Dmitry Khovratovich, and Christian Rechberger. Abstract. Since Rijndael was chosen as the Advanced...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Web-Based Problem Solving Software for Programming Courses
We all know that students benefit for problem solving exercises. Creating these sorts of problems can be difficult and time consuming. Evaluating them and help...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gamification the Next Big Thing for Business?
Serious Games from Knowledge@Wharton, from the recent conference: " ... Gamification -- the application of online game design techniques in non-game settingsFor...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G's Tremor Launches Debit Card
Procter & Gamble's fabled word of mouth group Tremor, built during the early days of consumer social network understanding, has not been in the news lately, ...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
CSEd Week: The Power of Numbers
Mark the calendar, gather up resources, and make some plans! Computer Science Education Week (December 4th through 10th) is the opportunity to be part of a unified...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Science of Retailing
Wharton Prof Marshall Fisher discusses his recently published book: The New Science of Retailing. I have read the book, and have reviewed and mentioned it inKnowledge...
From Schneier on Security
Alarm Geese
A prison in Brazil uses geese as part of its alarm system. There's a long tradition of this. Circa 400 BC, alarm geese alerted a Roman citadel to a Gaul attack...
From The Eponymous Pickle
EZ Face Virtual Mirror
I just posted some questions about implementations of EZ Face Virtual Mirror and got the following response, Thanks! Following your post about the Virtual Mirror...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Maga Design Group
Maga Design Group See their site for interesting examples of their mapping visuals, at the right a visual about supply chain design, they also have an interesting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Appeal of Store Brands Grows
There is a continued growing interest in private label brands. Shoppers see them as lower cost, and retailers as higher profit. And they piggyback off the marketing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tide and Green Dry Cleaning
In the WSJ: With research from Procter & Gamble showing many consumers are not happy with dry cleaning, the company has launched Tide Dry Cleaners stores, which...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
AP, Google To Award
The Associated Press and Google have teamed up to create
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-08-17
SmartOS.org A new operations system distribution emerges from the OpenSolaris/Illumos legacy. An excellent piece of work technically, bringing all the strengths...
From Schneier on Security
Security by Default
Nice essay by Christopher Soghoian on why cell phone and Internet providers need to enable security options by default.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Time To Cut The Cake
I ran across a couple of cool Lego links yesterday. One of was this link to Robots for Everyone: Getting Kids Interested in Programming with Legos which talks about...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM