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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 Computational Complexity
Conference Acceptance Rates
In the latest CACM, Jilin Chen and Joseph Konstan analyze data from the ACM DL and conclude that low-acceptance rate conference have papers with higher impact (more...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter Partners with Tobii
P&G is involved in a widespread rollout of understanding non-conscious consumer behavior: " ... Procter & Gamble has partnered with Swedish eye tracking technology...
From Schneier on Security
World War II Sabotage Field Manual
The OSS Simple Sabotage Field Manual from 1944.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How Do We Choose Research Journals?
The publishing house Elsevier invited me to fill out a survey regarding their journals. As a reward, they gave me a glimpse at their statistics. The three most...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
OSTP blogs about CCC!
“There is a variety of mechanisms through which the research community can participate in agenda-setting. One model I have found to be very valuable is exemplified...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
CRV 2010, Teaching, and Good Presentations
Yesterday afternoon, I gave my first academic conference paper presentation. I have given talks at conferences before (including Grace Hopper), but they weren't...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Elaine Weyuker wins ACM Presidential Award
Our own Elaine Weyuker has been named as a Presidential Award winner by ACM President Dame Wendy Hall. She is cited "For her tireless efforts in the development...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Linkless Press Releases
I just reviewed two emails I received about some technology areas I cover. Neither contained a link to the press release content I could send on. I had to ask...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Embedded Business Rules and Analytics
A topic of continual interest to me. We saw some of this in the enterprise when quantitative analytical methods were linked to sets of 'expert systems' business...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tacit Knowledge
During a period when many enterprises were thinking about how to build expert systems that might augment human beings, we learned about the concept of tacit knowledge...
From Computational Complexity
Advice for an Engineer
A reader from Mexico asks I am a near-to-be graduate student from Computational Engineering. However, it wasn't what I expected from my career. I want to be a mathematician...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-06-02
Patent cloud looms over Google Web video plan "The VP8 patent situation is no different from the patent challenges that face any computing innovation, from search...
From Schneier on Security
Intelligence Can Never Be Perfect
Go read this article -- "Setting impossible standards on intelligence" -- on laying blame for the intelligence "failure" that allowed the Underwear Bomber to board...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson