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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
Dealing with Presentation Nerves
In the Presentation Zen Blog. With some emphasis on Steve Jobs as an example of a casual, conversational approach.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bing Aggregates Coupons
Microsoft builds a coupon aggregator into their search engine Bing. ' ... "This is a savvy move on Microsoft's part," said Azita Arvani, principal of the Arvani...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Washes Ashore
A giant squid washed ashore in New South Wales.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Data as a Driver for Scientific Innovation
If you haven’t seen it already, the February 11 issue of Science magazine is worth a look.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Conducting a Virtual Choir
The following is pretty remarkable. A virtual choir. Play the video. Now if we could only do the same thing with a conductor/manager performing in front of a...
From CERIAS Blog
A Recent Interview, and other info
I have not been blogging here for a while because of some health and workload issues. I hope to resume regular posts before too much longer. Recently, I was interviewed...
From Wild WebMink
? New OpenAM and OpenDJ Releases
Today has been a big landmark for many of the developers at ForgeRock and in the communities in which they participate. Both the OpenAM (identity authentication...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
One Positive Thing, Martial Arts, and Hitting the Proverbial Wall
The other day I read Cate's post on One Positive Thing:The power of sustained small achievements is underrated. If every day I did one positive thing for my health...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robonaut 2
Launched into space, a humanoid robot. Not sure what the humanoid aspects gets you exactly besides overblown implications about it 'thinking' and being autonomous...
From Putting People First
Videos of Interaction 11 Keynotes
Videos are now available for all seven Interaction11 keynote presentations. Interaction is a yearly conference organised by the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)...
From Schneier on Security
Interesting Research in Using Animals to Detect Substances
Fascinating research summarized in The Economist. Basically, detecting dogs respond to unconscious cues from their handlers, and generate false alarms becausebomb...
From Wild WebMink
? Owning The Problem?
Android Gingerbread update broke Google Voice on the Nexus One So this is Google’s update to Google’s operating system badly breaking Google’s app for interacting...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Student Develops Games For Windows Phone 7
Jakub Poznanski, Jake to most people, is studying computer science at Carnegie Mellon University. He was born in Bia?ystok, Poland, but has lived most of hishttp...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Post PC World
Engadget editorial about how Apple is creating a post-pc world. They are sure selling a lot of things. And doing that very well. But are they really new ideas? ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Four New CIO Types
In Readwriteweb: It is suggested that " ... Chief "Infrastructure" Officers, Chief "Integration" Officers, Chief "Intelligence" Officers, and Chief "Innovation"...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Recapping the Recent OECD-NSF Workshop on Smart Health
As we previously blogged in this space (here and here), approximately 130 individuals — including 43 speakers — from 16 countries around the world came together...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
New XNA Jump Start Mini-course
Microsoft recently released a new XNA Jump Start Mini-course. Programming with C# and XNA 0.5: Jump Start is an exciting and engaging 4-5-week introduction...
From Computational Complexity
Greetings from Porto
Today we just finished the thesis defense of Andre Souto at University of Porto. Good News: He passed the defense so now we call him Dr. Souto. Better news: By...
From Michael Nielsen
TEDxWaterloo
I’m speaking today about open science at the TEDxWaterloo event, just outside Toronto. I’m really looking forward to the event, and to all the talks – I’m especially...
From The Eponymous Pickle