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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 Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Kodu Cup Submission Deadline is May 10th 2011
Just a reminder that the submission deadline for the Microsoft Kodu Cup is next week on May 10th, 2011. There is still time to create a new game with Kodu and...
From Computational Complexity
How has the STRUCTURES, OH- I mean CCC Conference changed: Lets look at the Call For Papers
Complexity theory has changed over the years. How to really track these things? One way is to look at the list of topics on the Call For papers for the CCC conference...
From Wild WebMink
? Interference
Canada still in copyright “hall of shame” according to the US The US interference in the copyright policies of other countries – in order to create a benefit for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SMI Gaze Ware
Another eye-tracking system, here from SMI Vision, brought to my attention that is worth looking at. Listening to the buzz in the enterprise there is increasing...
From Schneier on Security
Osama's Death Causes Spike in Suspicious Package Reports
It's not that the risk is greater, it's that the fear is greater. Data from New York: There were 10,566 reports of suspicious objects across the five boroughs...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Mid Atlantic Developer Expo is Coming!
This event looks interesting. If you are in the mid-Atlantic (say around Virginia) and interested in a local, reasonably prices and potentially seriously educational...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Licensing Bar Code Scanning
Good piece in ReadWriteWeb on how ShopSavvy is successfully licensing capability to others, making the capability widely available on mobile. I have mentioned...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Onions and Oil Prices
A colleague and I had a discussion about gasoline and oil pricing, and then I found this interesting post by M. J. Perry on Onions and Oil Pricing. What causes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Five Big Brands Betting on Social Gaming
Good examples in Mashable of the current use of gaming by some big brands: "... Skeptics of social gaming for business purposes exist, but that
From The Eponymous Pickle
Artificial Intelligence Needs a Reboot?
I am inclined to agree, having worked in practical application of its ideas from the late 70s through the 80s. It needs to be fundamentally re-thought. Formal...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cinci Business Intelligence Group Meeting
Sent by Subrata Debnath: of Analysis Express.Subrata Debnath found Cincinnati Business Intelligence Group - Business Social, Sponsored by Endeca on LinkedIn Events...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Calling for 2011-12 Computing Innovation Fellows
Today, the Computing Community Consortium, a standing committee of
From Schneier on Security
"Operation Pumpkin"
Wouldn't it be great if this were not a joke: the security contingency that was in place in the event that Kate Middleton tried to run away just before the wedding...
From Putting People First
Intel anthropologist offers ten visions for the future
As a follow-up to the previous post, Intel’s user experience discourse is further elaborated on by Genevieve Bell, Intel Fellow and the company’s Director of Interaction...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-05-04
13 reasons why the Infringing File Sharing Act is bad for you by Christopher Wood This is an excellent list of reasons why internet disconnection laws are such...
From Putting People First
Intel CTO stresses the importance of creating compelling user experiences
Justin Rattner, Intel
From Schneier on Security
Unintended Security Consequences of the New Pyrex Recipe
This is interesting: When World Kitchen took over the Pyrex brand, it started making more products out of prestressed soda-lime glass instead of borosilicate....
From Computational Complexity
Forty Years of P v NP
In the afternoon of May 4, 1971, in the Stouffer's Somerset Inn in Shaker Heights, Ohio, Steve Cook presented his STOC paper proving that Satisfiability is NP...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson