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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 Wild WebMink
? Unexpected Harm
Sitting straight ‘bad for backs’ Somehow my body had already worked out that 135
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Conversations at ISTE
Yesterday was more or less the opening of ISTE. These conference are sort of interesting in that they start gradually. Wednesday ISTE will end somewhat abruptly...
From Schneier on Security
Third SHB Workshop
I'm at SHB 2010, the Third Interdisciplinary Workshop on Security and Human Behavior, at Cambridge University. This is a two-day gathering of computer securityprogram...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nielsen and McKinsey Social Venture
A joint venture that links several groups I know well: " ... Nielsen and management consultancy McKinsey & Company have formed a joint venture to help clients improve...
From The Noisy Channel
SIGIR 2010 and SimInt 2010
I’m looking forward to attending SIGIR 2010 in a few weeks and particularly to the SimInt 2010 Workshop on the Automated Evaluation of Interactive Information Retrieval...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Moshe Vardi on
I notice that CACM Editor-in-Chief Moshe Vardi’s letter in the July 2010 issue of CACM speaks to what he calls “Hypercriticality,” and cites my post of May 4 here...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Computer Science Is More Than Just Programming
I have just finished leading a three week workshop for faculty and grad students from the humanities. The topic was serious (digital) games for research and pedagogy...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 27 June 2010
Posting early this week as I hope to have more timely stuff to write about as the week goes on. I
From The Eponymous Pickle
StoreFrontBackTalk
I often quote the StoreFrontBacktalk site. Evan Schuman does a great job tracking the technologies that continue to change the world of retail and E-commerce.some...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Item Search with Xyggy
I received this recently, just started to take a look at it, intriguing paradigm: " ... Thank-you for the post on Bayesian Information Retrieval .. The Xyggy technology...
From Wild WebMink
? Drawing A Crowd
Open World Forum 2010 – Agenda This year’s Open World Forum has a packed and scorching hot agenda and I’m honored to be chairing the opening state-of-the-union...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pepsi and the Next FourSquare
Have examined packages like Foursquare and there are some fundamental problems with their use for marketing plays. Enterprises like Pepsi are trying to influence...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Docs Add OCR
Have not tried it yet but OCR conversions to text for Google documents is a nice additions. In particular for incoming faxes that I would like to store away and...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-06-26
The Immortality of Open Source Projects Good snapshot of the history and thinking behind ForgeRock. (tags: FOSS OpenSource ForgeRock SimonPhipps Clippings) CBC...
From The Eponymous Pickle
UxSuite Discovers Unforseen Usage Patterns
Colleague Aylin Koca of the TU/e Department of Industrial Design reports on the establishment of her startup: UXsuite. See some of her previous work posted onWhat...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unilever Plans to Double Digital Spending
In Adage: " ... Unilever will double spending on digital marketing this year, Chief Marketing Officer Keith Weed said in a seminar today at the International Advertising...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tom Davenport's Masterclass
In SASCOM a good report on Tom Davenport's Masterclass. Nicely done, though not too much more than an outlne. Recall that Davenport used our enterprise analytics...
From Wild WebMink
Java Genius
This is a work of genius: The conference, JavaZone in Norway, deserves every bit of the attention it’s getting as a consequence.
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Vampire Squid
The vampire squid can turn itself inside out to avoid predators.
From The Eponymous Pickle