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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
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Its Official Software Will Be Unpatentable In NZ “Despite what appears to be a big-budget lobbying effort by the pro-patent fraternity, Hon Simon Power announced...
From Wild WebMink
Will Illumos Bring OpenSolaris Back To Life?
Today sees the launch of the Illumos Project, heralded last week in a message on the OpenSolaris mailing lists. The announcement caused much excitement, with many...
From Computational Complexity
The Solution to the Mark-Betty Game
RECALL from my last post the following game: Let f(n) be a non-decreasing function from naturals to naturals. Consider the following game: Let n be a large...
From The Noisy Channel
HCIR 2010 Accepted Papers
The 4th Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval (HCIR 2010) is coming up on August 22 in New Brunswick, NJ, taking place immediately after...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Online Marketers Know About You
In Flowingdata: What Online Marketers Know About you. I do like the topic, it is something we should be aware of. I am not sure that the graphics add enough to...
From Schneier on Security
UAE to Ban BlackBerrys
The United Arab Emirates -- Dubai, etc. -- is threatening to ban BlackBerrys because they can't eavesdrop on them. At the heart of the battle is access to thecomplicated...
From The Eponymous Pickle
QR Codes get Needed Publicity
The square two dimensional QR code, commonly used in Japan, is uncommon in North America. And that is the problem. If people don't know there may be something...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Advances in Vending
We did lots of work on kiosk implementations in the innovation centers. I recently talked to a company, Utiqueshop that was doing some interesting things in advanced...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM and SIGPLAN Comment on SEC Python Proposal
The Securities and Exchange Commission recently issued a request for comments on proposed changes to the rules regulating asset-backed securities. Part of the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Floating Wind Lens
From IdeaConnection. The Floating Wind Lens. Improvement in wind power technology?
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retail Realities Column
Evan Schuman, editor of Storefrontbacktalk, points me to their Retail Realities column published every Friday on CBSNews.com. Add it to your feed. Also on Twitter...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links August 3 2010
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From Schneier on Security
Location-Based Quantum Encryption
Location-based encryption -- a system by which only a recipient in a specific location can decrypt the message -- fails because location can be spoofed. Now asolved...
From The Noisy Channel
Overcoming Spammers in Twitter
As I blogged a few months ago, University of Oviedo professor Daniel Gayo-Avello published a research paper entitled “Nepotistic Relationships in Twitter and their...
From Putting People First
Mobile youth activism around the world
A couple of years ago I wrote about Mobile Revolutions, a blog about mobile phones, youth and social change by Lisa Campbell Salazar. The blog also supported TakingITMobile...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Social Gaming
In the Recorded Future blog, a post about an analysis of the future of social gaming this is a nice example of the use of the novel Recorded Future predictive approach...
From Schneier on Security
Eavesdropping Smartphone Apps
Seems there are a lot of them. They do it for marketing purposes. Really, they seem to do it because the code base they use does it automatically or just because...
From Wild WebMink
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I was pleased to be able to attend this year’s OSCON, O’Reilly Media’s open source convention held once again in Portland, Oregon in mid-July. There have been numerous...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rapportive Contact List Management
I just took a look at the Rapportive Rich Contact resource add on to the Chrome browser. It works with the GMail service only. It will not work with the Explorer...
From The Eponymous Pickle