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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 Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 16 August 2010
I was on vacation last week. I could not seem to stay away from the Internet and from blogging though. So there were blog posts and I was on Twitter a good bit....
From The Eponymous Pickle
FourSquare Style Case Studies
Walter Riker, author of the excellent introductory Ease of Blogging space, points me to an good set of examples of using FourSquare type methods. Thanks Walter....
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-08-15
Oracle v Google: Why? Excellent discussion by Stephen O'Grady together with pointers to other commentary that's worth considering. No conclusions, of course, since...
From The Noisy Channel
Exploring Nuggetize
I’ve been exchanging emails with Dhiti co-founder Bharath Mohan about Nuggetize, an intriguing interface that surfaces “nuggets” from a site to reduce the user’s...
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