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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 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
Internet Time Budgets
Not unexpected, and here social networks are including blogs, which is also blogs, broadly defined to include newsfeeds. Not necessarily including any actual social...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of August 2
The House is presently on recess until after Labor Day, and the Senate is scheduled to join them by the weekend. August 4 (Continues to noon on August 6) The Information...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Fixing the Computer Science Problem with an Act of Congress
Bills get written and submitted to Congress without getting passed all the time but if nothing else the process often gets the discussion going. A recent bill to...
From Computational Complexity
I want your intuitions on this, so the less you know the more I want you to post
Let f(n) be a monotone increasing function from N to N. (CLARIFICATION ADDED LATER: N is the naturals.) Consider the following game: Let n be a natural number...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Students Benefit from Programming Contests
"Go to a programming contest? Me? Never! I'm not good enough. I'm not fast enough. I'd never win. Why bother?" That's what I'd always thought. I started programming...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF
Last week, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) announced a new report titled “Telling the Stories of the BPC Alliances”. This report...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wireless Technology on the Road
Addresses some of the standards and issues involved:In CACM: Communications technology is transforming the driving experience. Automatic toll collection, crash...
From Schneier on Security
Book Review: How Risky Is It, Really?
David Ropeik is a writer and consultant who specializes in risk perception and communication. His book, How Risky Is It, Really?: Why Our Fears Don't Always Match...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deeper Motives
This article quotes Gary Singer, CEO of Buyology Inc.Deeper Motives: Getting Beyond Targeting by Steve Smith, Friday, July 30, 2010, 2:45 PM Behavioral targeting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Building a Lego Universe
Via IEEE Spectrum. I much like the idea of a company which has been known for incremental play to become involved in the broader area of gaming. Building theTen...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Views of Store Environments
Linking virtual environments and brain behavior. Makes sense since a virtual environment can be quickly modified to construct new experiments. Then the human reaction...
From Wild WebMink
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Pepsi and Enterprise Learning
New at Pepsi, in Consumer Goods Tech:PepsiCo's New Approach to Enterprise Learning PepsiCo launched an innovative initiative in May 2009 that can serve as a valuable...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-08-01
WikiLeaks disclosures are a 'tragedy' Yes, I get the fact the documents smear the war and that the US government spins the facts. I also get that there's a damage...
From Putting People First
Reputation managers addressing our internet footprints
In the modern digital age where seemingly everything and everyone is online, a new industry is emerging to “manage” the internet footprint that people and businesses...
From The Noisy Channel