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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
Data Shaping Store Shelves
Good overview article in a local paper about how companies are using advanced technologies to understand the shopping progress. With frequent mention of P&G. Yes...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
At the Interface between Computer Science and Economics
NSF/CISE has just announced a new program at the Interface between Computer Science and Economics & Social Science (ICES): Computational thinking has the potential...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
CS Going Mobile?
I recently ran across some statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau that I found interesting. By 2008, the number of text messages sent on cell phones (357 per...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Writing for IPhone and Android
Good introductory CWorld piece on writing Apps for multiple mobile smartphone platforms. I have talked to friends who have done both and there is lots of support...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-07-06
Woot calls out Associated Press for plagiarism Lovely Woot piece today, pointing out that if Woot quoted AP the way AP quoted Woot, they would demand payment. AP's...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The Five Most Important Algorithms?
Bernhard Koutschan posted a compilation of the most important algorithms. The goal is to determine the 5 most important algorithms. Out of his list, I would select...
From Schneier on Security
Research Report on Cyberattack Capabilities
From the National Academies in 2009: Technology, Policy, Law, and Ethics Regarding U.S. Acquisition and Use of Cyberattack Capabilities. It's 390 pages.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Provide input to the PCAST review of the NITRD program!
Congress mandates periodic assessments of the federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) program — the program under which 14...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Accelerating Artificial Intelligence
A redesigned Kurzweil AI site is up, and also an associated blog. We know Ray Kurzweil for his work on intelligence and singularity. Worth watching for tracking...
From The Eponymous Pickle
You Will Pay for IPhone Ads
AT&T's switch from unlimited data to a tiered data payment program means that you may start paying for seeing complex ads on your IPhone. It will make sense toMore...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Old Light
From the BBC, a stunning picture of ancient cosmic light. Microwave radiation on to the infrared. Gathering data and assembling it into a visualization. A bit...
From Computational Complexity
Jobs- who ended up where? You tell us!
Within CS theory who ended up at what jobs? Neither Lance nor I knows this. But YOU do--- collectively! So, I ask you, the readers, to leave comments about who...
From Schneier on Security
Tracking Location Based on Water Isotope Ratios
Interesting: ...water molecules differ slightly in their isotope ratios depending on the minerals at their source. ...researchers found that water samples from...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Decision Making Institute Launched
The move to non conscious elements of decision making as opposed to rational processes is interesting and getting more common. Worth following. : Draftfcb opens...
From The Eponymous Pickle
TagWhat
In ReadWriteWeb, just examined: ' ... Tagwhat, an augmented reality creation and distribution system, publicly launched this week bringing the world of augmented...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-07-05
Groklaw – Open Core and OSI Pamela picks up both my article and Mark's and asks the obvious question. For the record, Mark is wrong to assert that I think only...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links July 5 2010
Did you have a good Fourth of July weekend? technically a holiday for me today as the real day come on the Sunday. I understand it was a bit of a holiday in Norway...
From My Biased Coin
(n)On Vacation
Despite appearance, the blog hasn't yet disappeared. I was on family vacation somewhere tropical. Even though I was on vacation, it didn't always feel like vacation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reflecting on Business Independence
David Sibbet reflects on his own business independence and outlines the excellent work that he does. We used his consulting for years and it always inspired meposted...
From The Eponymous Pickle