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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 Daniel Lemire's Blog
Counterintuitive Factors Determining Research Productivity
Permanent researchers publish more when they are in smaller labs. Having many Ph.D. students fails to improve productivity. Funding has little effect on research...
From Apophenia
Social Steganography: Learning to Hide in Plain Sight
[Posted originally to the Digital Media & Learning blog.] Carmen and her mother are close. As far as Carmen’s concerned, she has nothing to hide from her mother...
From Wild WebMink
? OpenSolaris Governing Board Resigns
I’m very sad to report that, as expected, it proved necessary for the OpenSolaris Governing Board to collectively resign today. The motion was as follows: Motion...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile Neuromarketing Webinar
Sand's Research shows some of their unique mobile capabilities which I have now seen a number of times:Why Pretend to be in the Store Aisle? Real time data collection...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Creating Linked Innovation Groups
A case study from HBR provides a number of suggestions about how to create innovation groups, especially for the large global enterprise.Creating Distinct but linked...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Art of Taxonomy
This issue has become important in several recent projects:The Art of Taxonomy: Creating Concept-Rich Servicesby Rockmore MarleneUnderstanding and organizing data...
From Computational Complexity
Is Scheduling a Solved Problem? (Guest Post)
(Guest Post by Ben Fulton.) "At first glance, scheduling does not seem like a topic that requires much attention from computer scientists". This was how I...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-08-23
Electronic Voting Researcher Arrested Over Anonymous Source "About four months ago, Ed Felten blogged about a research paper in which Hari Prasad, Rop Gonggrijp...
From Schneier on Security
Malware Contributory Cause of Air Crash
This is a first, I think: The airline's central computer which registered technical problems on planes was infected by Trojans at the time of the fatal crash and...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links Post 23 August 2010
Happy Monday! Are you back to school yet? A lot of teachers are. If you are back I hope it is going well. If not yet, are you working out to get into
From Wild WebMink
Open Source Trade Associations Lack Sanctions
Software patents are broken and the only possible justification for having them is self-defence (which is itself a risky accumulation of armaments that can easily...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Swarm Intelligence
Mind Hacks deftly discusses an article in the Economist I missed on swarm intelligence. This method uses a biologically inspired intelligence metaphor to solve...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Common Culture Locked Up by Copyright
In TechDirt. I have added the book to my lengthening reading list. The struggle between rewarding the author for constructing a work, and making that same workNew...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procrastination and Self Control
Dan Ariely author of Predictably Irrational and The Upside of Irrationality posts his yearly video on procrastination and self control and the tool to address it...
From My Biased Coin
How's that New Job Treating You? Edition
I told myself I'd quit blogging when summer ended. That's a bit over a week away, as classes start September 1. Also nicely, from the count on the right, I'mreally...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile Face Biometrics
What looks like a considerable advance in face tracking on a smart phone. Including tracking specific features of a face. All done on a Nokia N900 phone. Includes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Super Passwords
On creating super passwords. Work ongoing at Georgia Tech.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Groupon Goes National
Continued emergence of online couponing. This and increasing mobile interaction with stores and other locations is clearly our future. Get ready. Follow Frenda's...
From The Eponymous Pickle