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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 Putting People First
Social networking and public service provision
I very much enjoyed the reflection of Lee Bryant (Headshift), following the launch of the UK Government’s Big Society initiative. In it, he argues that in the past...
From Putting People First
Why traditional intranets fail today
Oscar Berg reflects on the changing role of intranets in knowledge-intensive businesses. “These intranets need to provide flexible access to both information and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Creation Spaces Exchange Tacit Knowledge
Video from HBR on the Nokia Ideas project. This was something we explicitly intended to do with the creation of innovation centers. First to read realistic contexts...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-07-20
Rotten to the (Open) Core? Dave Neary's thorough analysis of the problem with open core is right on the nail. (tags: OpenCore OpenSource) Opening The Rackspace...
From Schneier on Security
New GAO Cybersecurity Report
From the U.S. Government Accountability Office: "Cybersecurity: Key Challenges Need to Be Addressed to Improve Research and Development." Thirty-six pages; I haven't...
From The Eponymous Pickle
E-Book Sales Exceed Hardcover
Amazon reports in the NYT that E-book sales for books have exceeded hardcover sales. To be clear E-books sales have not exceeded all book sales, which include softcover...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Towards a New AP Course in Computer Science
Today at the biennial Snowbird Conference, Jan Cuny (NSF), Owen Astrachan (U. of Virginia), and Larry Snyder (U. Washington) gave an inspiring talk about a new...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wolfram Alpha Rx Database
Have followed WolframAlpha for a while. Key is having the right data to support a query. Sometimes it is there an sometimes not. the new introduction of Data for...
From Schneier on Security
Violating Terms of Service Possibly a Crime
From Wired News: The four Wiseguy defendants, who also operated other ticket-reselling businesses, allegedly used sophisticated programming and inside information...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Is multiplication slower than addition?
Earlier, I asked whether integer addition was faster than bitwise exclusive or. My tests showed no difference, and nobody contradicted me. However, everyone knows...
From Computational Complexity
Factors for getting a job- Arbitrary, random, and complex
The Job Market in Theory (likely in all of academia) has more randomness and arbitrariness (are those the same?) then people may realize. Especially young PhD's...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of July 19
July 20 Hearing: The Health Subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee will hold a hearing on encouraging the use of Health Information Technology. 1 p...
From Putting People First
On the design process, consistency and product development
Three new articles have been published on the UX Matters site: Design Is a Process, Not a Methodology By Pabini Gabriel-Petit In this installment of On Good Behavior...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Checking into States of Mind
I like Batelle's point about checking into things other than just location. Advertisers infer this today, does it make sense to make it more explicit? He writes...
From My Biased Coin
New Paper: Popularity is Everything
Another new paper announcement: Popularity is Everything: A New Approach to Protecting Passwords from Statistical-Guessing Attacks, which will appear next month...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-07-19
NASA and Rackspace open source cloud fluffer Very significant initiative. The fact it's under the Apache licence makes it highly reusable, and the diversity of...
From Schneier on Security
Embedded Code in U.S. Cyber Command Logo
This is excellent. And it's been cracked already.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links July 19th 2010
I spent some time in California at the CSTA CS & IT Symposium last week. Great stuff to learn and a lot (though never enough) of time to talk to friends both old...
From Wild WebMink