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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
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 Putting People First
Book: Designing and Conducting Ethnographic Research
Designing and Conducting Ethnographic Research: An Introduction Paperback, 376 pages AltaMira Press; Second edition 2010 [Amazon link] The Ethnographer’s Toolkit...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
The 10th GENI Engineering Conference
Over 280 leading networking researchers from around the country gathered this week for the 10th GENI Engineering Conference (GEC).
From The Eponymous Pickle
Agile Commerce
In ReadwriteWeb: On the nature of agile commerce. Is it what we can expect in the near future? What are the architectures and planning required? Who makes sure...
From Wild WebMink
? Unthankyou
You’d think given the number of places I track music and the number of things I have given permission to spam me with music information that something would have...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Time You Spend Grocery Shopping
Hardly a statistical view. But some interesting comments. I spend much more than the suggested seventeen minutes, but I am a foodie. Lots of discussion of cause...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Re-Examining Google
Danny Sullivan revisits his excellent 25 Things I hate about Google. Five years after the original article. I read that original article, and it made me think...
From Schneier on Security
Zombie Fungus
The security connection is pretty tenuous, so I figured I'd blog this on a Saturday. Once it infects an ant, the fungus uses as-yet-unidentified chemicals to control...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Interdisciplinary Computing Blog
Interdisciplinary Computing Blog. by Lisa C. Kaczmarczyk. Brought to my attention recently. In particular an article on earthquake preparation and response and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
High Memory Tags
It used to be a feature of RFID tags that they contained very small amounts of data, with the tag acting as a link to data sources. Yet there appears to bean increase...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hacking into Cars
In Technology Review: Hacking into cars wirelessly. More holes in the infrastructure.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Telehealth
Good piece in Fast Company on Telehealth. Which seems to say that it is effective to use remote sensors and expertise to deliver health. I further think that...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
What is the Big Deal With Java?
What is the big deal with Java? I teach at a public school of excellence that can best be described as a magnet school for the state. We are currently in our...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Green Goose Sensors
In Engadget: A set of sensors that can monitor many aspects of your life, like exercise, then award you with experience points, compete with others, etc.
From Computational Complexity
Travel Support for Students going to STOC 2011
If you are a grad student and want to goto STOC 2011 there is travel support money that you can apply for. See here for details. We are particularly interested...
From Putting People First
User-led does not equal user-centered
“Companies should lead their users, not the other way around.” So say Jens Skibsted and Rasmus Hansen in their recent post, User-Led Innovation Can’t Create Breakthroughs...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-03-18
Skype security weaknesses could endanger 'vulnerable users' | Technology | guardian.co.uk This Privacy International report covers a few of the reasons citizens...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson