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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
How Many Books Are There?
I am a book and library nut. A nice piece by Google that takes a cut at the 'N' question about books. Along the way you learn quite a bit about books and how...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-08-11
Oracle Details Upcoming Solaris 11 Release "We're really getting our grip around building a mission critical operating system that includes technologies from openSolaris...
From Schneier on Security
Late Teens and Facebook Privacy
Facebook Privacy Settings: Who Cares?" by danah boyd and Eszter Hargittai. Abstract: With over 500 million users, the decisions that Facebook makes about its...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Bytes by MSDN and TechNet
Microsoft has just started a new series of blogs that will highlight various developers and IT professionals from around the US and beyond. This is a chance toBytes...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
A Different Perspective on P != NP
Ok, obviously this potential proof for P != NP is causing quite a stir. I really wasn't planning on blogging about it, but today I had the opportunity to share...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Saffron Associative Experience Management
I just received a note announcing Saffron Technologies forthcoming book: Making Memories, Applying Neuron-inspired Associative Memories to National, Business and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Forbes Requires its Reporters to Blog
Via Paul Gillin ... Forbes is requiring its reporters to blog and is opening a new blog. Will newspapers survive by morphing into blogs? That seems to be be happening...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-08-10
The golden age of open source? Matthew Aslett describes what I called "the open source bubble" as open source 3.0 and agrees it's ending in favour of what he calls...
From Schneier on Security
A Revised Taxonomy of Social Networking Data
Lately I've been reading about user security and privacy -- control, really -- on social networking sites. The issues are hard and the solutions harder, but I'm...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Accessibility and Computer Science
My first real knowledge of differently abled people using computers came about 35 years ago when I was in college. There was a recent graduate of the college who...
From Michael Nielsen
Cameron Neylon on Practical Steps Toward Open Science
Cameron Neylon is a scientist at the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council, an open notebook scientist, and one of the most thoughtful advocates of open...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Book Review: Hamlet's Blackberry
Just completed the recently released: Hamlet's BlackBerry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age by William Powers. The link includes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Eye Tracking is Changing the Web
Good intro piece in ReadWriteWeb. Not only about tracking in a passive sense to see where people are looking, but also as a means to interact with the web. Have...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
P != NP ?
The internet is abuzz with stories about a purported proof that the class P is not equal to the class NP.
From Schneier on Security
P ? NP?
There's a new paper circulating that claims to prove that P ? NP. The paper has not been refereed, and I haven't seen any independent verifications or refutations...
From The Eponymous Pickle
I-Room Virtual Space for Interaction
In the current IEEE Computer Intelligence Systems. An overview of a collaborative space to support sensory decisions. Quite interesting because it includes thein...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Why I Never Learned Scientific Experimentation in High School
Every lab report was the same. We started off by copying down the hypothesis written in the text book or lab assignment, listed the equipment used, wrote out the...
From Wild WebMink
? Free UK Tracks
Here are links to three of the free tracks I’ve found on Amazon UK over the last week (you have to be in the UK to download these). The best is probably the dark...
From Computational Complexity