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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
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
Non-Myths About Programming
Mark Guzdial attended the first day of the ICER 2010 conference in Denmark this week. He blogged about that day (Blogging the first day of ICER 2010) and it sure...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mosaic Theory of Search
Have been involved in the use of a number of technologies like GPS and RFID which can determine the location of someone in a context. A colleague send me a note...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Can Social Save Media?
Talk from Supernova: Moderators are Wharton's Peter Fader and Eric Barlow ... Via WIMI: Wharton Interactive Media Initiative.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Chrome Calling Phone
I like this idea, sending multimedia things to your phone. I have often been in this fix. Need to get things to my phone and ready to go. Android-only according...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visual Meetings!
Newly brought to my attention, we used David's methods to do group productivity sessions. Always very imppressive. I recognize parts of the book as some of the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Best Practices
Interesting thoughts about the development and use of best practices, a common thing in the enterprise. Best practices work under a set of given contexts.
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-08-12
Why We Need To Abolish Software Patents "Patents make a lot of sense in many industries …. But in software these are just nuclear weapons in an arms race. They...
From Schneier on Security
Security Analysis of Smudges on Smart Phone Touch Screens
"Smudge Attacks on Smartphone Touch Screens": Abstract: Touch screens are an increasingly common feature on personal computing devices, especially smartphones...
From My Biased Coin
Monkey Business
I see Harvard's in the news yet again, as the Boston Globe broke a story about psychologist Marc Hauser, who is "taking a year-long leave after a lengthy internal...
From Wild WebMink
The King Is Dead, Long Live The King
The move back to collaborative co-development of open source will characterise the next phase of the open source movement.
From The Eponymous Pickle
How to Build a Mind
Still waiting for some of the required details for reverse-engineering. I am no neuroscientist, but even I can see that all the blueprints are not ready yet. "...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Can Our Classrooms Be More Collaborative
I recently had the privilege of attending the Computer Science and Information Technology Symposium at Google Headquarters in Mountain View, California. Wow! What...
From My Biased Coin
Other UK Adventures
While in the UK, I went out to some other places to give talks -- Liverpool and Cambridge.At both places I gave my talk on our analysis of the auction site Swoopo...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Windows Phone 7 Sample applications
Windows Phone 7 Program Manager, Sean Mckenna, visited the Channel 9 studio to demo of some Windows Phone 7 applications. The idea is that these are some core applications...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smartphones and Retailers
The possibilities of having shoppers use their own devices to get information to help them understand their options has existed for some time. But now shoppersearly...
From Computational Complexity
Factoring in P ?
(Update on alleged P NE NP proof: There are some issues with it. See these posts on Lipton's blog: here and here and also see a Wikipedia site that (I think) Terry...
From The Eponymous Pickle