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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
? The Business Of Open Source Is
Migrating from Sun to Novell? While this is slick (if predictable) marketing there's a smarter solution than switching away from the software in which you've already...
From Schneier on Security
Fifth Annual Movie-Plot Threat Contest Winner
On April 1, I announced the Fifth Annual Movie Plot Threat Contest: Your task, ye Weavers of Tales, is to create a fable of fairytale suitable for instilling the...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching Real Projects Workshop
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Foursquare the Future
The location based location activity-game Foursquare has developed a base of both lovers of the concept and haters. I have tested it for some time now. This CW...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CISE
Please see the new NSF/CISE FY11 cross-cutting program, Smart Health and Wellbeing, which we announced on Friday, June 11: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/nsf10575...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of LED Lightbulbs
Good article from the VentureLab newsletter:Will LEDs Replace Your Standard House Lightbulb? Definitely MaybeNew solutions in the LED space are clearing the way...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Taking on Healthcare: The Time is Now
The Computing Community Consortium recently prepared a white paper titled, “Information Technology Research Challenges for Healthcare: From Discovery to Delivery...
From My Biased Coin
Crimson Article on SEAS
This article from the Crimson on the state of Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences from a couple of weeks ago serves as a good primer for me on...
From The Eponymous Pickle
World Laundry Trends
Ad Age piece on the trends on laundry solutions around the world. An old interest of mine from research within the enterprise.
From Schneier on Security
Protecting Cars with The Club
From the Freakonomics blog: At some point, the Club was mentioned. The professional thieves laughed and exchanged knowing glances. What we knew was that the Club...
From Computational Complexity
Whats your Game Mr. Bond- The sequel!
(I will post about CCC 2010 later in the week.) The word Game is used in many different contexts within math and computer science. I list out all that a group...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Lack of steady trajectories and failure
A common advice given out to young researchers is to find a niche. (See Michael’s Branding Your Research). That is certainly good advice. Instead of being another...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 14 June 2010
Is school done for the year where you are? Here in the northeast of the US there is another week or two to go. Teachers are finishing up the year, getting their...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bad Spill Infographics
In Junk Charts: Oil Spills Bring out the Worst. A number of examples that just muddy up the data they are trying to deliver. I get the feeling that news organizations...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Culture and Consumer Choices
Colleague Sammy Haroon posts on Culture and Consumer Choices..
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM