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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 Putting People First
New handset, new life
The Mobile Work Life Project is a Ryerson university-based research project funded by the Canadian Social Science and Humanities Research Council. Its aim is to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Trends in the Mobile Gaming Industry and Serious Games
In Mashable: These trends are mostly about mobile gaming for entertainment, but I watch these trends for their potential applications beyond the 'angry avians'...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Accidental Creative
Heard Todd Henry talk a few weeks ago about creativity and noted that his book The Accidental Creative was being launched. It's out now and here is a book launch...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CS & IT 2011 Day 2
Wow! The day started off with a bang. Doug Rushkoff, who wrote Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age , was the opening keynote. Agree or disagree...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tube Free TP Tested
This has been tested before. And I recall there were cost, shipping and quality issues, and a decrease in total paper waste was not necessarily there. Yet itChicago...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
An Alternative to Science Funding?
Crowds are common at rock concerts, basketball games, and scientific research proposals. Wait — what? In The New York Times this week, there’s an interesting story...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visually Does Infographics
ReadWriteWeb on a new startup called Visual.ly Which makes it easy to create data representations and infographics. Also share designs socially in a community...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Examples of Text Analytics
Good piece in SASCom blog. Three good examples of text analytics in an upcoming Webinar. We practiced related goals since the 70s, when the data was loaded from...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gmail Provides Contact information
I have many contacts, and it is particularly difficult to remember all of their information, especially when we have not connected for a while. This always led...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Domain-Specific Language (DSL)
Admit I had not heard of this concept, nicely outlined and detailed in the CACM. Mistaking it for the phone line communication protocol. But it means something...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Other Things People are Doing
ReadwriteWeb reports on studies about other things people are doing at the same time they are using mobile devices. Beyond just driving. The sometimes danger of...
From Wild WebMink
Garden Monster
Garden Monster, originally uploaded by webmink. Spotted this vapourer moth caterpillar eating the leaves on one of my blueberry bushes. Glad it’s only 3cm long
From My Biased Coin
SODA in Japan
I hadn't even noticed SODA was in Japan before submitting. I just figured wherever it was I'd be willing to go, as January in Boston is a fine time to be elsewhere...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pepsi and FourSquare
Pepsi makes the first attempt at taking Foursquare global. Good case study of generalizing the idea, which has been largely North America. " .... In what appears...
From Wild WebMink
? Dis Harmony
Project Harmony Considered Harmful Bradley Kuhn of the Software Conservancy is clearly opposed both to Project Harmony’s work products and sponsors. In short, Project...
From Schneier on Security
Insurgent Groups Exhibit Learning Curve
Interesting research: After analyzing reams of publicly available data on casualties from Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and decades of terrorist attacks, the scientists...
From Computational Complexity
FOCS Accepts
This list of FOCS accepts are out, with abstracts, with PDF links (via Kintali) and in Algorithmic Game Theory (Nisan) and Algorithms (Eppstein). The FOCS Conference...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson