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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
Auctioning History Update
Based on messages received I know that some of you have been following my auction technology thread. I wrote about the Cowan auction of Lincoln history. That auction...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Education
Does this mean the commoditization of higher education? Once you have lots of training courses online, and a way to rate them AND a means to pay the teachers, will...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Software Cost in Cars
Even our locomotion is getting more complex:How much does software add to the cost of today's vehicles? How about tomorrow's electric cars?by Sebastian Blanco Back...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Senator Lieberman and Colleagues Introduce Another Cybersecurity Bill
Cybersecurity legislation is sort of popular in this Congress. Several bills have been introduced, but there are enough cybersecurity bills working through the...
From My Biased Coin
STOC/FOCS Opinion : Guest Post by Boaz Barak
Boaz Barak asked to give a guest post on the recent STOC/FOCS issue and the question of accepting more papers. So I hand the floor over to Boaz:Do we really need...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Augmented Reality on Bloomberg Innovators, and Current Gaps
The weekly links post over at Games Alfresco - a blog about the latest and greatest industry and research advances in augmented reality - had a link to a documentary...
From Schneier on Security
Mainstream Cost-Benefit Security Analysis
This essay in The New York Times is refreshingly cogent: You've seen it over and over. At a certain intersection in a certain town, there'll be an unfortunate...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Whats Next for Publishing? Conference Report
Special report from Knowledge@Wharton: Turn the Page: What's Next for Publishing?. Excellent."Emerging technologies and strategies to reach new audiences are changing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Choice: Semantic Structure or Systemic Crises
Mark Montgomery of Kyields's blog post on the Gulf spill and the need for polymath perspective/philosophy for overcoming challenges.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Laptops of the Future
Computerworld looks at some of the early prototypes of laptops from a number of vendors. Most of what we see are multiple screens that can be used independently...
From Apophenia
How COPPA Fails Parents, Educators, Youth
Ever wonder why youth have to be over 13 to create an account on Facebook or Gmail or Skype? It has nothing to do with safety. In 1998, the U.S. Congress enacted...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM Comments on Internet Privacy Bill Discussion Draft
Representatives Rick Boucher (D-Virginia) and Cliff Stearns (R-Florida), who are the chair and ranking member of the House Subcommittee on Communications, Technology...
From The Eponymous Pickle