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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
New Seed Accelerator in Cincinnati
New in the heart of the Midwest, by a former colleague, The Brandery:The Brandery opens it doors: New seed accelerator launches in Cincinnati by Dave KnoxToday...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart was Wrong to Just Tag Pallets
I just wrote a guest column at one of my favorite retail blogs: Storefrontbacktalk. About how Wal-Mart first tested RFID tags extensively on cases and pallets...
From Computational Complexity
What is the complexity of these problems and metaproblems?
The following problem is from Doctor Eco's Cyberpuzzles. I have shortened and generalized it. We are going to put numbers into boxes. If x,y,z are in a box then...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Acceleration of Addiction
Paul Graham on the acceleration of addiction via technology. Technology gives us more of what we want, so is it accellerating addiction? Pretty clear the answer...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-07-29
Dell's fraud settlement explodes PC market myths "Intel's rebates amounted to 38 per cent of Dell's operating profit in the fiscal year 2006, and rose to 76 per...
From My Biased Coin
The 2050 Calculator
As regular blog-readers know, I'm a tremendous fan of David MacKay, who has gone from being a leader in the general area of Bayesian inference (author of Information...
From Schneier on Security
Security Vulnerabilities of Smart Electricity Meters
"Who controls the off switch?" by Ross Anderson and Shailendra Fuloria. Abstract: We're about to acquire a significant new cybervulnerability. The world's energy...
From Wild WebMink
? Jailbreaking Decision Is Temporary Relief
While the decision by the US Library of Congress to create exceptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act for jailbreaking iPhones is very welcome, the reaction...
From Apophenia
Facebook privacy settings: Who cares?
Eszter Hargittai and I just published a new article in First Monday entitled: “Facebook privacy settings: Who cares?” Abstract: With over 500 million users, the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wolfram|Alpha Widgets Beta Announced
This is something that is quite interesting I have just received and am starting to explore. Knowledge should be in the form of installable widgets, shouldn'tThe...
From Putting People First
The tension between user-centered design and e-government services
Nalini Kotamraju, assistant professor at the University of Twente in the Netherlands, gave a talk yesterday at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Funding Opportunities for Ed Tech
The Department of Education
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Work Where You Work Best
Summers can be a bit lonely at universities. Without the hustle and bustle of thousands of undergrads to keep things looking and feeling busy, and with many faculty...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Do People Want on Smartphones?
In Progressive Grocer: What information do people want on their smartphones. This is mostly a fairly obvious survey, with a much too small sample, that is still...
From Schneier on Security
DNSSEC Root Key Split Among Seven People
The DNSSEC root key has been divided among seven people: Part of ICANN's security scheme is the Domain Name System Security, a security protocol that ensures Web...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retail Geek
Just discovered through some Twitter messages The Retail Geek Blog. I have acted in that capacity at times. Welcome.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mapping the Brain's Networks
Remarkable overview of work by IBM scientists on mapping the major networks in the brain. With some great visualizations. The most comprehensive work yet in understanding...
From Putting People First
Rem Koolhaas, the Hermitage and the design of innovative experiences
On the way to celebrating its 250th anniversary in 2014, the Hermitage museum in St. Petersburg (formerly the Winter Palace of the Russian czars) hired legendary...
From The Noisy Channel
SIGIR 2010: Day 3 Industry Track Afternoon Sessions
While the SIGIR 2010 Industry Track keynotes had the highest-profile speakers, the rest of the day assembled an impressive line-up: The new frontiers of Web search...
From Putting People First