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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 Computational Complexity
How I'm Spending my Spring Break
This week I returned to Dagstuhl for the workshop on Computational Complexity of Discrete Problems. I come here so often that when I tweeted that I was om way Dagstuhl...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Resarch: Probase and AI
Good piece in Readwriteweb that describes some items still cooking in MS Research. We had heard hints of these over the years. In particular Probase, which weProbase...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nerve Electronic Hybrids
Will mind and machine be more intimately connected? What are the implications? The idea has been around for some time, but with little firm results yet on theIn...
From Schneier on Security
Times Square Video Screen Hacked with an iPhone
I didn't post about it when I first saw it because I suspected a hoax. Turns out, I was right. It wasn't even two guys faking hacking a Times Square video screen...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Mathematics of Cooperation
An interview in New Scientist about the quantitative logic of success: " ... Martin Nowak has concluded that an ability to cooperate is the secret of humanity's...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Solar Goose
A friend and colleague of mine, Tom Chorman, former P&G exec, is running a company that manufactures and sells solar powered rechargeable lights and related products...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Thinking Too Much
In HBS Working Knowledge: Are We Thinking Too Little, or Too Much? With a retail example. I agree that it is a context thing, but the recent writing about the...
From Schneier on Security
RSA Security, Inc Hacked
The company, not the algorithm. Here's the corporate spin. Our investigation has led us to believe that the attack is in the category of an Advanced Persistent...
From Putting People First
Experientia intern wins Gore-tex and La Sportiva boot design challenge
Experientia intern Gina Taha has just been announced a winner in the GORE-TEX
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links Post 21 March 2011
My travel is over for a couple of weeks. Well, about three weeks. Then I will be headed out to Seattle for the US Finals of the Imagine Cup. Look for news of the...
From Wild WebMink
? Oslo Position
I’ll be speaking at GoOpen in Oslo on Tuesday (on the Grand Panel at 20:00) and Wednesday (the closing keynote). I’d love to meet with you if you’ll be in Oslo...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Open Data and Transparency
Matthew Hurst posts on the fact that Open Data is Not Transparency. Yes, clearly. This also occurs in the enterprise, where there are multiple and rich sources...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CS PostDocs: What is the
The following is a special contribution to this blog by CCC Council
From Wild WebMink
? Delicious Broken AGAIN
Thanks to everyone who has been alerting me to the fact that the same post has been showing up here over & over again. The problem is once again that Delicious...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Internet Research
Nice post by Walter Riker on Internet Research And Learning - Sometimes The Hard Way. Good stuff, lots of links. And thanks for the mentions Walter! Add him...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neuromarketing
Ron Wright of Sands Research sends along this interview with Graham Page, head of Millward Brown's consumer neuroscience practice, about how market research is...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-03-20
A legacy from the 1800s leaves Tokyo facing blackouts | ITworld Turns out that the electricity crisis triggered by the multiple tragedies in Japan is the result...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Behavioral Classification by Burnett
Suspicious of highly generalized views of human behavior, but here is another for consideration: In AdAge Blogs " ... As Leo Burnett moved from considering itself...
From The Noisy Channel