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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 Schneier on Security
Two Good Rants
Patrick Gray on why we secretly love LulzSec, and Robert Cringely on why we openly hate RSA.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Institute for Mobile Markets Research
Just introduced to immr, the Institute for Mobile Markets Research. See their site for more: " .... immr is a research and consulting firm providing research...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facial Micro Expression Decoder
Swiss startup rolls out this effort. Another example of determining true reactions of consumers in context. Experiments have shown these methods useful when allied...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
IBM Researchers Create High-Speed Graphene Circuits
From a story published on The New York Times‘ website late yesterday: IBM researchers said Thursday that they had designed high-speed circuits from graphene, an...
From Computational Complexity
Talks I Missed
The Complexity conference comes to a close today and I head back to Chicago. I tend to go to few talks, preferring hallway conversations, but occasionally I hear...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter Tries Facebook Commerce
Another push forward for Facebook, and Procter gives an indication that Facebook can be a serious place for business. Includes 'shop' and 'shop now' buttons to...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-06-10
Music and film industries split over pirates My own conversations of late suggest that wiser minds (or rather, minds that can make the reptile see the difference...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Akamai Chief Scientist Talks Theory
Over the past few weeks, we’ve been
From Schneier on Security
New Airport Scanning Technology
Interesting: Iscon's patented, thermo-conductive technology combines infrared (IR) and heat transfer, for high-resolution imaging without using any radiation....
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What is Digital Literacy? And is it enough?
Someone on twitter sent out a link to an article/video from the BBC called Are children becoming 'digitally illiterate'? that got me thinking. What does it mean...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Qwiki
Took a quick look at the new NYT supported iPad app magazine Qwiki. An overview. A simple location based magazine designed for easy consumption on the iPad. Very...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Best Practices for Mobile Business Intelligence
Good piece in the Tableau blog. I would like some more whys rather than just best practices. Still this is a nice start to think about the watch outs. I am...
From Schneier on Security
Spam as a Business
Interesting research: Kirill Levchenko, et al. (2010), "Click Trajectories -- End-to-End Analysis of the Spam Value Chain," IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
US Ignite & GigU Plenaries Webcast Today & Tomorrow
The NSF’s CISE Directorate and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) are co-sponsoring a pair of workshops on US Ignite and GigU — initiatives...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hearst Founds an App Lab
In Mashable: " ... Hearst unveiled its fabled App Lab to members of the press Thursday. The lab is a plush, windowless, gadget-filled room designed to serve as...
From Geeking with Greg
Quick links
Some of what has caught my attention recently:Oldest example I could find of the "PC is dead" in the press, a New York Times article from 1992. If people keep[1]...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Calling for
The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Division on Research on Learning (DRL) has announced its intent to fund up to 24
From Computational Complexity
An Update on Impagliazzo's Worlds
Russell Impagliazzo gave a talk at Complexity about his five worlds. We didn't know whether Heuristica and Algorithmica were different, i.e., whether if NP is easy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
3M Visual Impact Scanner
Good article on 3M's work in visual impact scanning. We had talked to them years ago about their research to understand its possible use in store and marketing...
From Wild WebMink