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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
Brave New Google and Intelligence
Nick Carr satirically views the interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt in the WSJ yesterday. Schmidt positions the future of search as an artificial intelligence...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Physics Wins in Net Neutrality
Colleague Mark Montgomery in the KYield blog, On Net Neutrality: " ... The net neutrality issue is finally being debated, thanks not to populist politics, but rather...
From The Eponymous Pickle
24 Hour Customer
Newly acquired: The 24-Hour Customer: New Rules for Winning in a Time-Starved, Always-Connected Economy by Adrian C. Ott. Just started, nicely focused to the time...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Looking for Entelligence
The concept of dedicated devices that reside on the net and update us with key information and services is not a new one.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nanotech Electronic Noses
New work in building electronic noses. We experimented with the idea for blending beverages. In general the electronic sensors were not accurate enough.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Student Collaboration in the Classroom: Making it Happen!
In my last blog entry, I posed questions regarding what we want for our students and how we are designing interactions in the classroom to cultivate those characteristics...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Panic in the Science of Crowds
The science of crowds is another thing we followed to understand what goes on in retail. This is not directly related to the retail context, but shows the depth...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Solar Storm Watch
There have been a number of notable recent solar storms. BBC article provides some detail. There are some new sites which are crowdsourcing our defense. With that...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Computer Virus
It wasn't me: A hardened computer hacker has been arrested on suspicion of writing a computer virus that systematically destroys all the files on victims' PCs...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Live Auction
I posted a while back that I have been helping Cowans, an Auction house. There is a live auction on Decor going on now that you can track via smartphone. The IPhone...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Carcassonne
Some friends finally got me to download the iPhone version of the addicting game Carcassonne, and I've quite enjoyed it so far. But thanks to my recent desirediscussed...
From My Biased Coin
In Need of a Few Bad Papers
For my graduate class this semester, there's a lot of paper-reading, and I view learning how to critically and constructively read papers as part of the student...
From My Biased Coin
STOC tutorial online
Paul Oka asked me to announce that the STOC 2010 tutorials are now all online. You can find them here.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sensors on Broadway
In ReadWriteWeb: An intriguing use of RFID tags to determine and improve the acoustical characteristics of live performances. Unusual application that could have...
From Computational Complexity
P vs NP vs IEEE (Guest post by Paul Beame)
(Update on P vs NP: The proof uses Finite Model Theory which is sometimes called That stuff that Neil Immerman does.. Neil Immerman has found a flaw in it. See ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gamers Beat Algorithms
It has been suggested that gaming and the human senses can perform better than analytical algorithms. Here is an example in determining protein structures. We...
From Schneier on Security
Cloning Retail Gift Cards
Clever attack. After researching how gift cards work, Zepeda purchased a magnetic card reader online, began stealing blank gift cards, on display for purchase,...
From Wild WebMink
? Crocodile
The news: Oracle sues Google over Android and mobile Java Hmm. Aren’t these both Linux Foundation members and OIN licensees? Fighting over open source technology...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson