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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
Chief Listener
A good article in AdAge: My thoughts: Listening, whether it be to consumers, trends, the pulse of technology, is very important. Maybe it should be called observing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Autocad on the IPhone
In a very interesting development a version of the very well known CAD system will become available for the IPhone and IPad, available by this fall.... I used AutoCad...
From Computational Complexity
Report from Barriers II Part 1
On Thursday Aug 26 Lance stated Bill is at Barriers II in Princeton and promises a full report upon his return. Not quite sure I promised that, or what a full report...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Interactive Systems Architectures
Thirty researchers met August 11-13 to discuss the future of interactive systems. This workshop was sponsored by the Computing Community Consortium, ACM/SIGCHI...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Time To Mine the Data
Or is it “mind” the data? Last week I read a blog post by Stacey Armstrong (CS News – Video Game Data Mining) that linked to an article about how game companies...
From My Biased Coin
Blog Retrospective
I started blogging a little over 3 years ago, as something of an experiment. Lance had given up blogging, and I had been a reasonably frequent and opinionatedKleinberg's...
From Schneier on Security
High School Teacher Assigns Movie-Plot Threat Contest Problem
In Australia: A high school teacher who assigned her class to plan a terrorist attack that would kill as many innocent people as possible had no intent to promote...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
When Having a Lot of Facebook Friends is Good
Some people scoff at those who have too many friends on Facebook. "They probably just friend a bunch of people they don't know to look popular," they say. While...
From Wild WebMink
Causality Essay Published
In response to several comments, I’ve just extracted my discussion of direct and indirect causality from my recent article on why “which licence” is now the wrong...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Review Your Offering
Want your service, book, software or consulting skills presented to an elite audience here in review form? See my Ad and review policies here. -----------------...
From Schneier on Security
Misidentification and the Court System
Chilling: How do most wrongful convictions come about? The primary cause is mistaken identification. Actually, I wouldn't call it mistaken identification; I'd...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Simons Foundation to Fund New Institute for the Theory of Computing
The Simons Foundation will provide up to $6 million/year in funding for a new Institute for the Theory of Computing. The call for applications recognizes the deep...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Independent Review of Recorded Future
I have now mentioned Recorded Future a number of times in this space, here is another independent review that does a good job of introducing it for niche research...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Write a Twitter application in 5 minutes
I spend much time alone, writing and thinking.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tag Strategy at Wal-Mart
More in Storefrontbacktalk about Wal-Mart's RFID tagging strategy.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Bread Crumbs
So if you don't have GPS, can you use digital bread crumbs to track your movements?
From Wild WebMink
? Thinking of OOoCon
Hungarian Parliament, originally uploaded by webmink. My best wishes to all my friends attending the OpenOffice.org conference in Budapest this week. With all of...
From Wild WebMink
? Holiday Gift
Vanguard Records Sounds of Summer MP3 Sampler Not 100% to my taste, but some of the tracks are very good (I like Robert Cray and Stacy Clark) but the whole thing...
From Computational Complexity