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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
Looking for people to review books for my column
I am looking for reviewers for the following books for my SIGACT NEWS book review column. I will try to edit this post to keep the list up to date; however, ifthis...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
A Who
A few weeks ago, we began highlighting a few of the 107 Computing Innovation Fellows (CIFellows) we’ve had the pleasure of funding.
From Putting People First
Detroit copies Torino
(English translation of article published yesterday in La Stampa newspaper – author Andrea Rossi): Michigan delegation between the cabbages and the red peppers...
From Schneier on Security
Google Detects Malware in its Search Data
This is interesting: As we work to protect our users and their information, we sometimes discover unusual patterns of activity. Recently, we found some unusual...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Are your students entered in the Windows Phone app contest
This Summer, build Windows Phone 7 apps and you could earn exciting prizes to catch a movie, eat ice – cream, buy camping gear and more!! This special competition...
From Geeking with Greg
Quick links
Some of what has caught my attention recently:Netflix may have been forced to change its pricing by the movie studios. It appears the studios may have made streaming...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Microsoft Research Announces 2011 Faculty Fellows
Every year at this time, Microsoft Research recognizes
From Schneier on Security
Members of "Anonymous" Hacker Group Arrested
The police arrested sixteen suspected members of the Anonymous hacker group. Whatever you may think of their politics, the group committed crimes and their members...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Media for Customer Service. Infographic Impression
ReadwriteWeb on the topic via an Infographic. The topic itself is interesting.The infographic use is confusing. At first I thought it was an ad. Then noticed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart
Excellent post by MJ Perry about Wal-Mart as the most successful retailer in history. Some fascinating stats on the retailer and its operation.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Model Based Recommendation Agent
I became interested in a new recommendation smartphone App called Alfred, which recommends restaurants, etc, It is glowingly described and reviewed in ReadwriteWeb...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-07-19
FLOSS: Accept no substitutes | ITworld These sorts of scams were a serious problem that we spent a great deal of thought addressing in connection with OpenOffice...
From Putting People First
Report published on Behaviour Change
The main conclusion of the Behaviour Change report, published today by the UK House of Lords Science and Technology Sub-Committee, is that ‘nudging’ on its own...
From Putting People First
Beyond the cubicle
Allison Arieff talks in her New York Times Opinionator blog about the design of work. Paraphrasing Nathan Shedroff, she states that furniture is not the problem...
From Schneier on Security
Telex Anti-Censorship System
This is really clever: Many anticensorship systems work by making an encrypted connection (called a “tunnel”) from the user's computer to a trusted proxy server...
From Putting People First
Design and behaviourism: a brief review
Dan Lockton is publishing extracts from his Brunel University Ph.D thesis
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Small Basic 1.0 is here!
Have you been working with Small Basic? If so you probably know that it has officially been pre-release software. Well not it is released software and you can now...
From The Eponymous Pickle