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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 Computing Community Consortium Blog
A New Kind of Teacher
Last Saturday, the New York Times Magazine published the fourth installment in its “Smarter Than You Think” series, this one titled “Students, Meet your New Teacher...
From Putting People First
Content Strategy questions and answers
Content strategy is becoming a hot topic (and one I am greatly interested in). Last year, Kristina Halvorson of Brain Traffic published the book Content Strategy...
From Schneier on Security
The NSA's Perfect Citizen
In what creepy back room do they come up with these names? The federal government is launching an expansive program dubbed "Perfect Citizen" to detect cyber assaults...
From Wild WebMink
? OpenSolaris Governance
You may have seen some of the news reporting of the OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB) meeting that was held last Monday (I am an elected member of the Board). At...
From Wild WebMink
? United
I’m heading to California en route to OSCON (where I’ll be speaking on Wednesday at 5:20pm about open source continuity – use code os10fos to get a 20% discount...
From The Eponymous Pickle
ESRI BAO Demographic App
I am a big proponent of delivering visualizations of complex data on mobile devices. Why not have it on hand where you need it? Likely fully armed with data about...
From Apophenia
Facebook
First, I commend Facebook for taking child safety seriously. When I was working with them as part of the Internet Safety Technical Task Force, I was always impressed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
User Behavior in Social Media
Blinq Media white paper executive outline and email request for the whole thing: User Behaviors in Online Social Network Applications Present Untapped Marketing...
From Schneier on Security
Russian Intelligence Gets Source Code to Windows 7
I don't think this is a good idea.
From Computational Complexity
Sparse problems in NP thought to not be in P
(This post is similar to this old post. I am posting this anyway since when I first posted I made fundamental mistake. I fixed it the point I was trying to make...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Peter Lee Joins Microsoft Research
Peter Lee, a past member of the CCC Council and the PI of the first CIFellows Project, today was named the Managing Director of Microsoft Research Redmond, effective...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Paro: Helping dementia patients
Last week Amy Harmon wrote the third installment of the awesome New York Times Magazine series
From Schneier on Security
Random Numbers from Quantum Noise
Not that we need more ways to get random numbers, but the research is interesting.
From Putting People First
University and Cyberspace conference videos online
A few weeks ago the Communia conference University and Cyberspace took place here in Torino, Italy, with a focus on “reshaping knowledge institutions for the networked...
From My Biased Coin
Arxiv Paper: Heapable Sequences and Subsequences
I haven't been blogging much; consider me on extended vacation. It's helping me prepare for giving up the blog soonish. But I thought I'd mention our newly posted...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft's Virtual Human
In the BBC: All sorts of interesting implications in cinema, storytelling, marketing and games. We will soon be at a place where the real and artificial are no...
From Putting People First
Internet
“The internet has not become the great leveller that it was once thought it could be,” according to Harvard academic Ethan Zuckerman at the TED Global (Technology...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tibco Announces Free BI Tool
Clever marketing approach from Tibco, maker of Spotfire. Have not taken a look yet at exactly what it is yet. In ReadwriteWeb: " ... Tibco has launched a business...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
2010 CSIT Symposium
This is a reposting of a blog piece written by Doug Peterson on his blog http://dougpete.wordpress.com/. Yesterday, I had the honour of attending the 2010 CSIT...
From The Eponymous Pickle