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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
Forever online: Your digital legacy
Your photos, status updates and tweets will fascinate future historians. Will these online remains last forever? In this special report, newscientist.com editor...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-05-07
Skype bug gives attackers access to Mac OS X machines Serious, exploitable bug in the Mac version of Skype. Best not to run Skype until they have it fixed. Actually...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Science of Retailing: Assortment Planning
Today at UC, Heard Marshall Fisher talk about work in chapter 2 of his book: The New Science of Retailing: How Analytics are Transforming the Supply Chain andhis...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Noise Pollution and Squid
It literally blows holes in their heads: In the study, led by Michel Andr
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squids in Space
There are live squids on the last Endeavor mission.
From Geeking with Greg
The value of Google Maps directions logs
Ooo, this one is important. A clever and very fun paper, "Hyper-Local, Direction-Based Ranking of Places" (PDF), will be presented at VLDB 2011 later this year...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Sony-Prompted Hearing Features Testimony from USACM Chair
Prompted by the massive data breaches of Sony's networks, the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade of the House Energy and Commerce Committee held...
From Wild WebMink
? Special 301
I’ve read the USTR‘s Special 301 report so you don’t have to. The worrying conclusions are over on ComputerWorldUK.
From Schneier on Security
Forged Memory
A scary development in rootkits: Rootkits typically modify certain areas in the memory of the running operating system (OS) to hijack execution control from the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Talks Location Strategy
In Fast Company, well worth understanding: Marissa Mayer Talks Location Strategy: The longtime VP tells us how a simple call for a pizza delivery influences...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NLM:
The National Library of Medicine has announced a software development challenge, seeking innovative software applications that use the library’s vast and free biomedical...
From The Eponymous Pickle
NearBuy Systems
Another example of location based interaction with retail and warehouse:" ... There are many business situations when you need to know
From Schneier on Security
Stolen Camera Finder
Here's a clever Web app that locates your stolen camera by searching the EXIF data on public photo databases for your camera's serial number.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching Students To Create Their Own Business
One of the things that I tell students when I do career talks is that it has never been easier to start a software business than it is today. Many great companies...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fuzzy Look up In Excel
Something I could have used a long time ago, an add-in that does fuzzy look up in Excel. Thanks.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile Business Intelligence from Tableau
I continue to be impressed by Tableau's easy to use BI system, now providing mobile solutions, and touch interaction:" ... Tableau 6.1 provides many new and exciting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Why is Tesco Struggling in the US?
From the BBC: It is not quite so quick and easy as Tesco struggles in US. Some details.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Choosing Conference Sessions
The CS&IT Annual Conference is coming up and I am getting more excited all the time. As a computer science teacher, it's always been the best professional development...
From Schneier on Security