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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 The Eponymous Pickle
Pads in Schools:Games as Learning
Should devices like the iPad replace books and other learning materials in schools? A recent experiment in the UK asks the question. I am still a proponent of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Endeca Business Intelligence
Newly discovered: Endeca. " ... For organizations seeking to improve daily decisions or purchase decisions for customers, Endeca is a search and business intelligence...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-05-29
Can We Kill Off This Myth That The Internet Is A Wild West That Needs To Be Tamed? | Techdirt Excellent article. — "The internet does not exist as untouchable....
From CERIAS Blog
U.S. Memorial Day Thoughts on Cyber War
We've been hearing about "cyber war" for some time now. It has been held out as an existential threat by some people, been the topic of scores of books, and led...
From Computational Complexity
75 Years of Computer Science
As Lipton and Felten note, today is the 75th anniversary of Turing's On Computable Numbers, With an Application to The Entscheidungsproblem, the seminal paper of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Academics Move Closer to Wikipedia
I have been surprised that a large portion of academia was not sympathetic to the Wikipedia, perhaps seeing too much competition there. But once many people start...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gamifying Your Startup
Rajat Paharia of Bunchball on ways to gamify your startup. This takes you beyond just slapping some badge measures on your site, which I agree will not work ...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-05-28
John Perry Barlow Tells Copyright Maximalists That They've Got The Fundamentals Wrong Great stuff from JPB here. Shame of it all is despite hist stature in all...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Jesse Schell
The site of author,entrepreneur and game designer Jesse Schell. A number of useful threads there. I have just received his book: The Art of Game Design: A Book...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Turing Award Winner Talks Technology
From the CACM: Turing Award winner Leslie Valiant discusses machine learning, parallel computing, and computational neuroscience. Machine learning is a favorite...
From Wild WebMink
? eG8, Control Points and NameCoin
As the pressure on and from political leaders to “regulate” the internet mounts, the need for basic infrastructure to switch from hierarchical to distributed control...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Thinking about Neuromarketing
Excellent thoughtful post about Neuromarketing and it's criticism and potential value.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Trends in Knowledge Work
Very good piece on what is happening in this space. I think that the continues overflow of information that is occuring makes just-in-time an essential element...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Automation will make you obsolete, no matter who you are
I was part of the first generation of kids to receive computers as gifts. I was also part of the first generation of professionals to adopt computer-assisted tele...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Windows Phone 7 Games in Visual Basic
I’ve been working all week in C#. Now C# is a wonderful language if you are going to use semi-colons and curly braces. It fixes almost all of the issues I haveYou...
From Wild WebMink
? Future-proofing
NameCoin at The Dot-bit Project With internet-control-freak politics everywhere now – just look at eG8 and PROTECTIP for example – the need for distributed infrastructure...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reverse Engineering Public Criticism
Good piece in the Harvard Blogs. In particular with a useful retail example: Wal-Mart. Which also includes criticism of how the company has handled things,. ...
From Schneier on Security
Apple's iOS 4 Hardware Encryption Cracked
All I know is what's in these two blog posts from Elcomsoft. Note that they didn't break AES-256; they figured out how to extract the keys from the hardware (iPhones...