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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
? Bite-Size Privacy and Anonymity
A discussion broke out on Identi.ca recently where it became clear that the distinction between anonymity and privacy is not clear for some people. It led to the...
From Schneier on Security
Recording the Police
I've written a lot on the "War on Photography," where normal people are harassed as potential terrorists for taking pictures of things in public. This article...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Pushing Game Narratives Beyond Linearity
I remember a student telling me the other week that she thought writing stories for games was easy, and wondered if there were jobs doing that. I had been giving...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Touts Predictive Analytics
Having worked in this area for years, I have to agree. The emergence of search has sometimes inappropriately substituted fast and easy for 'right'. Good article...
From Schneier on Security
Book Review: Cyber War
Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to do About It by Richard Clarke and Robert Knake, HarperCollins, 2010. Cyber War is a fast and enjoyable...
From Putting People First
A rich trove of articles in UX Magazine
A rich trove of articles in UX Magazine: The importance of designing an experience culture By Cynthia Thomas / December 20th 2010 The outward focus on developing...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How not to teach programming
Through the wonders of DZone I came across a blog post called Don't teach like you code. The target audience seems to be professional coders who are teaching beginners...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook vs Twitter Infographic
Colleague Stan Dyck sends along an infographic from digital surgeons of statistics about Facebbok versus Twitter in 2010. Nicely done. It catches your attention...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nestle's Lok towards Health
Nestle looks at deeper, health related aspects of food science. Good detailed article in the WSJ.
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Failure of Social Media
GigaOm on the failure of social media campaigns. I agree that it is far to early to predict when these campaigns will succeed or fail. Some good directional thoughts...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sharing Your Car
In another innovative personal transportation market, reported in Wired, you can share your car for cash. : " ... RelayRides lets car owners set their own rates...
From Schneier on Security
Computational Forensics
Interesting article from IEEE Spectrum: During two years of deliberation by the National Academy's forensic science committee (of which I was a member), a troubling...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Learn C# Programing in a Social Gaming Environment
Check out Pex for Fun (http://bit.ly/PexLearn) for a challenging and engaging way for students to practice their programming skills. Pex for Fun enables programming...
From Computational Complexity
BREAKTHROUGH in algorithms: Improved algorithm for Metric TSP!!!!!!!!
BREAKTHROUGH in Algorithms: Improved Algorithm for Metric TSP, (Guest Blog by Mohammad Hajiaghayi) We all recently heard about the breakthrough complexity...
From The Eponymous Pickle
An App for an Airport
I reported previsously on developing specialized Apps for conferences. Here is another example of something similar: A specialized App for an airport, here San...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
For Your In-memory Databases, Do You Really Need an Index?
For large data sets on disk, indexes are often essential. However, if your data fits in RAM, indexes are often unnecessary. They may even be harmful. Consider a...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computational Photography
A few interesting news stories in the past week: What is “Watson”? Word came on Tuesday that “Watson,” an IBM supercomputer system, will take on Ken Jennings and...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-12-20
The Document Foundation joins Open Invention Network Smart move here – by joining now, they gain access to all those patents belonging to Novell that will leave...
From Putting People First