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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
links for 2010-06-07
Top 10 Questions To Ask At The Microsoft TechEd/STB Analyst Summit Here's a view I'd not considered: "Just less than 3 years ago, Microsoft was still perceived...
From Schneier on Security
How to Spot a CIA Officer
How to spot a CIA officer, at least in the mid 1970s. The reason the CIA office was located in the embassy -- as it is in most of the other countries in the world...
From Putting People First
On user researchers and behavioural economics
UX Matters has again published a couple of great articles: So, you want to do user research: characteristics of great researchers By Demetrius Madrigal and Bryan...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 7 June 2010
I tried to take most of last week off. Well I guess I actually did officially take most of the week off but somehow I spent more time than I should have on email...
From Wild WebMink
? BCS Faces No-Confidence Vote Crisis
I just received notice of an Emergency General Meeting at the British Computer Society – some members think the current leadership want to
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ready for Mobile Video Chat?
How much does the ready and easy availability of video chat add to the value of business communications? Some rumors about that this will be the new ingredientA...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Authentic Curriculum; Authentic Assessment
As I was browsing the CSTA Blog recently, I was intrigued by Joanna Goode's post on Assessment in Computer Science. Since assessment is an integral part of myauthentic...
From My Biased Coin
Conference Attendance : How to Keep it Strong?
In honor of the STOC business meeting coming up shortly: STOC, CCC, and EC are all apparently poised to have very strong attendance this year -- from what I understand...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rise of the Replicators
We met MIT's Neil Gershenfeld and read his book: When Things Start to Think. Much enjoyed, but I did wonder about how hard it would be to implement what he wasNew...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reporting vs Blogging
Walter Riker writes about Reporting vs Blogging in his Ease of Blogging blog. Walter's blog is a great resource in this space, and he is also a first rate teacher...
From My Biased Coin
Announcement: Matt Welsh Tenured
I'm very, very pleased to announce that Matt Welsh's Harvard tenure case has been successful. There's a number of wonderful things I could say about Matt andthe...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-06-06
MPEG LA – The Standard for Standards – Want to Form a Pool? To be clear, MPEG-LA is a parasite using standards bodies as its host, whether they want it or not....
From Apophenia
i can haz housesitting tool pls?
Dear enterprising developers of the world, I have a request: I travel a lot. I prefer staying in apartments to staying in hotels. But I hate imposing on friends...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sony Lifelogging Glasses
Via Walter Riker: Sony demonstrates lifelogging glasses. Have been looking at eyetracking approaches lately. In the Enterprise we examined related methods for delivering...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Semantic Publishing
From IEEE Inteligent Systems: The Semantic Web: From Proteins to Fairytales: Directions in Semantic PublishingAnita de WaardIf computers are to help us process...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Focus on the Objectives of Business Intelligence
Richard Herschel looks at the various definitions of BI and tries to make sense of how it relates to the objectives we should be seeking. Well done. He proposes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Links as a Distraction
A discussion of whether including links in writing is a good idea. Have always thought the very purpose of being on the web is to include links to supporting material...
From My Biased Coin