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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
Progressive Insurance via Sensors
In Engadget: A description of State Farm's IPhone App which uses phone sensors to determine speed location and acceleration to rate your driving. The point is made...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Genetic Music
The Genetic Music Project was recently launched. " ... An open source genetic art project combining music and science. Where everyone is art and everyone can be...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of April 11
May 3 Hearing: The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will hold a hearing on updating the Presidential Records Act to better handle electronic records...
From Schneier on Security
LiveBlogging the Bin Ladin Assassination
"VirtualReality" tweeted the Bin Ladin assassination without realizing it.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
A Summer School on Cyber Security for Smart Energy Systems
With support from the U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the Trustworthy Cyber Infrastructure for the Power Grid (TCIPG) Center...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-05-02
The Parser that Cracked the MediaWiki Code | Software Research and the Industry As many of us have been commenting for many years, the optimum freedom comes from...
From Putting People First
Context aware computing and futurism at Intel
At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco in September last year, Justin Rattner, the director of Intel Labs, announced a new research division, called Interaction...
From Schneier on Security
Hijacking the Coreflood Botnet
Earlier this month, the FBI seized control of the Coreflood botnet and shut it down: According to the filing, ISC, under law enforcement supervision, planned to...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 2 May 2011
I had an interesting week last week. Took a couple of vacation days
From The Eponymous Pickle
Known Myths about the Origin of the Internet
An interesting piece on the background of the Internet. It states that there was a myth that the Internet originated because its many nodes could survive a nuclear...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neuaer and Smartphone Location
In ReadWriteWeb: New potential from Smartphone location sensor ideas: " ... Imagine if your phone could tell you when your friend walked by so you could call them...
From The Eponymous Pickle
BrandFlick: Finding a Company's Aha Stories
A local company that just appeared in the news, Brandflick. I have been involved with storytelling projects a number of times. Very useful for sketching outmentioned...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Rights
What kinds of rights should we have when dealing with systems that gather our data? Does this mean we should not accept agreements that do no make this clear?Thoughtful...
From The Noisy Channel
CFP: IEEE Internet Computing Special Issue on Context-Aware Computing
Pankaj Mehra and I are guest editors for an upcoming special issue of
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Making 'Introduction to Computers for Arts and Social Sciences' Even More Awesome
I'm getting ready to teach our introductory computer course for arts and social science majors again this summer. If you read my blog around this time last year...
From The Eponymous Pickle
PayPal Ties EWallets
The method uses text messages to transfer payments. The article goes on to provide a good overview of the current market, tests underway, and the belief by many...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Decline of Manufacturing
MJ Perry on a global trend of a decline in manufacturing. Though with population increasing don't we still need to have more things to be manufactured? Very...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Examining A Measure of Social Connectivity
In Roughtype: A look at a study that generates a measure called NFC, or 'need for cognition', which is ' ... "a recognized indicator for deep or shallow thinking...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog