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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 Female Perspective of Computer Science
Pseudocontext in Computer Science
Can you imagine a programming assignment or example where "common sense and real-world knowledge are not needed"? Math teacher (and now PhD student in education)...
From Computational Complexity
What is a breakthrough? Lets have an intelligent discussion!!!!!!
In 2010 this blog announced the following Breakthrough!!!! results: (Listed chronologically.) Better Algorithms for Unique Games, by Arora, Barak, Steurer. (We...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Snap a Picture, Save a Stream
Creek Watch. A simple Smart Water effort via IBM uses a mobile phone application to gather data about stream conditions. Simple smart sensor application. It does...
From Schneier on Security
Polar Bears Destroying Hidden Cameras
Watch the video. What valuable security lessons does this teach? EDITED TO ADD (1/3): And why aren't the polar bears destroying the hidden cameras that are...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-01-03
World condemns UK control orders And rightly so. They are as bad as Guantanmo, punishment without end for people accused of being athreat without conviction and...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 3 January 2011
Happy New Year! I hope your year is off to a good start. I know mine is. I
From The Eponymous Pickle
Earth Project Seeks to Simulate Everything
From the BBC: Quite a huge undertaking. Including always problematic aspects of human behavior ... " ... Nicknamed the Living Earth Simulator, the project aims...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Developing Robots for the Emergency Room
In CACM: Developing Robots for the hospital emergency room. I have worked on simulations of an operating room, which would be a good first step for this.
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Networks Can Tell us About the World
Good overview video about using networks to understand systems they describe. Talk given at the Santa Fe Institute. The 2010 Ulam LectureNetworks and the World...
From Wild WebMink
Giving Up Yahoo
Yahoo Messenger is the only IM network I use where I am bothered daily by spam-porn-bots attempting to add me to their contact lists. Some days there are as many...
From Wild WebMink
2010 in review
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-01-02
Facebook Close To Naming Sun Microsystems Campus As New Headquarters The new "you've got no privacy, get over it" moves in. I wonder who will get my old offices...
From The Eponymous Pickle
100 Things to Watch
The Global Advertising Agency Jay Walter Thompson has put out a slide show on the 100 things to watch in 2011. Provocative and interesting.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Custom QR Codes
An explosion of interest in using QR codes this past year. A Mashable piece on how to create your own custom QR codes. In the comment there is a good point about...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
My Most Read Posts of 2010
For the most part I want to focus on the future and not the past. But I did want to take one look back at traffic to this blog over the course of 2010. I have rough...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Real Time Analytics Surge
My UK colleague sends along a link to a note about the increasing use of in memory data management, and it's implications to data infrastructure and center design...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Five surprising changes in 2010
I was among the first Canadians to own a Kindle. I justified my purchase as “research”. The Kindle was not satisfying for anything but fiction and I predicted it...
From Wild WebMink