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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 Daniel Lemire's Blog
Why I still program
People expect that, as you grow older, you give up practical jobs such as programming for more noble tasks such as managing a team and acquiring funding. This especially...
From Wild WebMink
? Ending Division
LibreOffice Conference, Paris, 12th-15th October, 2011 The LibreOffice community is organising a conference. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if all the various strands...
From Schneier on Security
Analysis of Redaction Failures
Redaction failures are so common that I stopped blogging about them years ago. This is the first analysis I have seen of technical redaction failures. And here's...
From Putting People First
The future of money in a webbed-up world
Digital cash and online markets have the potential to loosen governments
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links Post
Last week I celebrated eight years at Microsoft. I still miss the students which makes the guest talks I do in schools particularly valuable to me. Interestingly...
From The Noisy Channel
Winning the War for Software Engineering Talent
The war for talent. It’s the latest metaphor for the challenge that tech companies face as excitement is building in Silicon Valley again. Well, not really — McKinsey...
From My Biased Coin
Harvard CS Hires (2011 Edition)
At FCRC, I'm getting asked a lot about hiring. Our hiring season still isn't quite yet finished, but I'm going to go ahead and announce three new faculty who will...
From The Eponymous Pickle
American Library Association Abstracts
Here the abstracts of the poster sessions from the American Library Association's recent meeting. Having dabbled in library science and its reaction to changes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Games in Employee Recruitment
WSJ Piece includes a good example of how the enterprise is using gamification. I have seen similar examples in retail training: " ... While it's not clear ifMarriott...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Explaining Relevance Metrics in Search
Relevance metrics are important. How can they be best explained? Very similar to the issues we had in artificial intelligence in explaining results satisfactorily...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Taking a Square Root With DNA
Some research news last Friday that’s been the subject of much chatter in the popular press: Caltech researchers Lulu Qian and
From My Biased Coin
FCRC : Awards Banquet
I got to FCRC a little early to attend the ACM Awards Reception and Banquet. (Les Valiant nicely put my name on a list.) For more on the awards you can also go...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Evolution of the Semantic Web
Evolution Towards Web 3.0: The Semantic Web. A talk by Lee Feigenbaum . Good background and overview of direction.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mind Map Library for Mobile
I am continuing my exploration of the use of mobile mind maps. Biggerplate is an example of such a library, containing some 1100 examples. Compatible with several...
From The Eponymous Pickle
MindManager for iPhone and iPad
An App version of the popular MindManager mind mapping software for the Ipad and Iphone is scheduled to come out around June 15. Costing 9 and $7 respectively. ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Using Recorded Future
I have begun taking a closer look at the time oriented search engine Recorded Future for some potential client engagements. Visualization is a key method they...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Browser Fingerprinting
Who you are can be effectively determined by the visible fingerprint of your browser and its configuration. How much does this undermine your privacy? Slashdot...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crowds Need Independence for Wisdom
More evidence that crowds need to retain independence to maintain the 'outlier canceling' effect that can make them useful to solve problems. Obvious, but important...
From Putting People First
The wisdom and foolishness of crowds
Experiments suggest that wisdom of the crowd can be countered by too much communication within that crowd. “The wisdom of crowds turns out to be an incredibly fragile...
From Putting People First