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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 Computational Complexity
This Post is Quite Different then Any You've Every Read!
I recently a letter from WETA (public TV) which I quote from: This letter is quite different from any we've ever sent to you. For years we wrote to you about...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wrong Price Penalties
In StoreFrontBackTalk, an article on some recent large penalties due to incorrect price postings at Sears. You will recall we did a number of studies of Electronic...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Getting Strategic Transparency
On linking transparency and accountability, in particular about using our increasingly sensor-rich world. in the HBR: " ... Whether morbidly curious or voyeuristically...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Insects and Robot Design
In the CACM: Insects that inspire robot design. Not a new thing. Useful but sometimes overemphasized. Airplanes are not based on the design of birds. Natural inspired...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-07-27
EFF Wins New Legal Protections for Video Artists, Cell Phone Jailbreakers, and Unlockers Congratulations to the EFF on this victory for digital liberty. We mustn't...
From Schneier on Security
WPA Cracking in the Cloud
It's a service: The mechanism used involves captured network traffic, which is uploaded to the WPA Cracker service and subjected to an intensive brute force cracking...
From My Biased Coin
Teaching Time Conflicts
As the semester ominously approaches, we've noticed that we're facing a number of class time-slot collisions in computer science.This is unsurprising. Until recently...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mind Melds as Measures
From Wired, this is interesting ... with perhaps some lessons to neuromarketing. A stronger mild meld might be the connection between two speakers, rather than...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
PLDI
The Computing Community Consortium is interested in stimulating the development of new research visions and challenges in computing research. Recently, the CCC...
From Computational Complexity
A Seventh Mil. Problem
Richard Lipton had a wonderful post asking for a seventh Millennium Prize now that Poincare's conjecture has been solved. I posted a suggestion on his blog but...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
New Portfolio
I finally have a new portfolio!When I made the original website, I was in fourth year and expecting to work for industry. But now that I'm in grad school and looking...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Selling Body Wash
A very good Ad-Age case study on changes in body wash sales after the much talked about the very viral old spice videos and related social networking plays. It...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of July 26
July 27 Hearing: The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee will hold a hearing on consumer online privacy. 2:30 p.m., 253 Russell Building July...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stop Trying to Delight Your Customers
We always had the delighting rule drummed into us. This recent HBR piece takes a contrarian view and makes some excellent points. ' ... Two critical findings emerged...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Data Viz Tool
Something new, about to examine: Microsoft Debuts a Data Visualization toolMicrosoft has released a controller for its Silverlight multimedia software that can...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-07-26
How Will You Measure Your Life? Worthwhile reading for a Monday from Clayton Christensen. (tags: Business Management Philosophy Zeitgeist) Good-bye, Sun Bryan Cantrill...
From Schneier on Security
Technology is Making Life Harder for Spies
An article from The Economist makes a point that I have been thinking about for a while: the modern technology makes life harder for spies, not easier. It used...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links July 26 2010
I sure have been traveling a lot lately. I spent the early part of last week at Stevens Institute of Technology talking about user interface design and creating...
From The Eponymous Pickle