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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
Google Enters eBook Market
A good overview of Google's entry into the ebook market, from an educational perspective. A very large number of texts are included.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Who will need database administrators in 2020?
In response to my Why do we need database joins? post, many readers stressed the importance of strict database schemas to preserve data integrity. In short, we...
From Wild WebMink
? Meta-Wikileaks
Defend WikiLeaks or lose free speech Dan Gillmor on leaks and journalism: “By [Washington Post journalist] Krauthammer’s sick standards, the death squads should...
From Schneier on Security
Profiling Lone Terrorists
Masters Thesis from the Naval Postgraduate School: "Patterns of Radicalization: Identifying the Markers and Warning Signs of Domestic Lone Wolf Terrorists in Our...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
TEALS (Technology Education And Literacy in Schools)
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Gmail Alert Monitor Update
A Gmail alert monitor I had not heard of: Scott's Gmail Alert (SGA) has been a great desktop notifier for a long time. In the just-released version 5, however,predecessors...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter CIO is Chief of the Year
In InformationWeek:Former long-time colleague Filippo Passerini of P&G is named CIO of the year. " ... How does Filippo Passerini and his team hope to digitize...
From Schneier on Security
FTC Privacy Report
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission released its privacy report: "Protecting Consumer Privacy in an Era of Rapid Change." From the press release: One method of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Spherical Tours
Rently brought to my attention: Spherical Images." .... A London-based virtual tour company, Spherical Images provide HD quality virtual tours by photographing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tagging Starter Kits
Motorola is offering some out-of-the-box RFID starter kits for companies that want to understand the technology and its application. Good idea. " ... Motorola...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Productive Obsessions
Intriguing Ideaconnection interview. The role of a kind of obsession in thinking. " .... IdeaConnection Interview with Eric Maisel, Co-author of Brainstorm, and...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-12-06
ICANN had no role in seizing torrent domains It was done directly by Verisign, over the registrars' heads: "VeriSign received sealed court orders directing certain...
From Schneier on Security
Cyberwar and the Future of Cyber Conflict
The world is gearing up for cyberwar. The U.S. Cyber Command became operational in November. NATO has enshrined cyber security among its new strategic priorities...
From Computational Complexity
Do Uniform Lower Bounds Matter?
From Ryan Willams' paper: Non-uniform lower bounds establish impossibility results for computation in the physical world: it could be that P ? NP, yet NP-complete...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links Post December 6th 2010
Well it is Computer Science Education week. Are you doing anything at your school for it this week? I attended three different CSTA chapter meetings in the last...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Bayesian Networks
A very good overview article by Adnan Darwiche in the December Communications of the ACM: ... What are Bayesian networks and why are their applications growing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Games as an Advertising Frontier
Good article in Mashable/Business: Reasons Why Social Games Are the Next Advertising Frontier I do like the idea, but also think it is much harder to implement...
From Wild WebMink
? Now Accepting BitCoin
As an experiment, I’ve set up BitCoin on one of the systems here at Webmink Central. BitCoin is a peer-to-peer digital currency, with no central bank or authority...
From Putting People First
Cisco
The UK newspaper The Daily Telegraph profiles Cordell Ratzlaff, director of user-centred design at Cisco Systems, and fomer head of Apple
From The Eponymous Pickle