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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 Wild WebMink
? Investment
@wouterdewanckelwouter dewanckel CFO asks CEO "What happens if we invest in developing our people & then they leave us?" CEO: 'What happens if we don't, and they...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Internet Probe Can Track within Hundreds of Meters
In New Scientist: a new method claims to be able to track someone on the Internet within 690 meters. Note this has nothing to do with GPS on a mobile device, but...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Overlapping Experimental Infrastructure
In the innovation centers we were continually constructing experiments. Multiple options that would ultimately examine the space occupied by a new product, technology...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Live Streaming from YouTube
This roll out fromYouTube can provide some useful training and information delivery opportunities. " ... The goal is to provide thousands of partners with the capability...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: A New Book About Squid
Wendy Williams, Kraken: The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid. Kraken is the traditional name for gigantic sea monsters, and this book...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
In Praise of Brevity
For those of us at universities, the school year is winding down. I am teaching our second semester course this spring, and I usually try to add some off-syllabus...
From Apophenia
How Can We Help Miguel?
[Written for DML Central. More comments there.] One of the hardest parts of doing fieldwork is hearing difficult, nuanced stories that break my heart. The more...
From Schneier on Security
Get Your Terrorist Alerts on Facebook and Twitter
Colors are so last decade: The U.S. government's new system to replace the five color-coded terror alerts will have two levels of warnings
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sleepless Elite
A friend sends me this WSJ article on the Sleepless Elite. As a night owl myself I find this intriguing, can we make more use of our time this way, or is it...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Oscilloscope on an IPhone
Another example of a sensor connected to a smartphone. Here a multiple signal Oscilloscope. A device which was an early introduction of mine to electronics. Used...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-04-08
OSI Board reponds to FCO Questionaire concerning CPTN Transaction | Open Source Initiative The OSI Board was asked by the German cartel authority for further comment...
From Schneier on Security
Pinpointing a Computer to Within 690 Meters
This is impressive, and scary: Every computer connected to the web has an internet protocol (IP) address, but there is no simple way to map this to a physical...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Movies for Computer Science Students
I had some email yesterday with a link to a post titled "The Top 10 Movies for Computer Science Students." It is an interesting list and I have seen most of these...
From Michael Nielsen
Open science
The following talk gives a short introduction to open science, and an explanation of why I believe it’s so important for our society. The talk is intended for a...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Data Struts It's Stuff
Data Struts It's Stuff in the NY Times. Nice article, the content of which many of us know already, yet it is good to see in a more popular space. I agree to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Human Error Identification
In the latest issue of IEEE Intelligent Systems: Automatically analyzing Facial-Feature Movement to Identify Human Errors, by Maria Jabon, Sun Jao Ahn and Jeremy...
From Wild WebMink
? Distracting Reading
The end of OpenID? Very interesting analysis on LWN suggesting that OpenID’s big problem is it leaves users in too much control and thus is no use to web sites...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC to Hold First-Ever Leadership in Science Policy Institute
As part of its mission to help nurture a next generation of computing research leaders, the
From Schneier on Security
Detecting Cheaters
Our brains are specially designed to deal with cheating in social exchanges. The evolutionary psychology explanation is that we evolved brain heuristics formodus...
From The Eponymous Pickle