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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
Collective Intelligence by Retailers
Retailers sharing their collective intelligence. ' ... Gartner analysts Mick MacComascaigh and Whit Andrews recently released a study, "Leading Websites Will Use...
From Schneier on Security
Alerting Users that Applications are Using Cameras, Microphones, Etc.
Interesting research: "What You See is What They Get: Protecting users from unwanted use of microphones, cameras, and other sensors," by Jon Howell and Stuart Schechter...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-05-24
To Microsoft, Open Source means "Windows Encumbered" Just because Microsoft is busily embracing open source, that doesn't mean they have any interest in software...
From Computational Complexity
The Life of Martin Gardner 1914-2010
The math and science writer Martin Gardner passed away on Saturday. Gardner wrote the column Mathematical games for Scientific American from 1956 to 1981 and Scientific...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 24 May 2010
I pretty much took last week off from blogging. I sort of needed a break and since they were migrating this and many other blogs to a new updated blogging engine...
From The Noisy Channel
Estimating the Query Difficulty for Information Retrieval
The other day, I received a surprise package in the mail: a copy of IBM researchers David Carmel and Elad Yom-Tov’s newly published lecture on “Estimating the Query...
From Wild WebMink
? Problems With WebM?
The announcement last week at Google IO of the creation of the WebM project and the release of the VP8 codec was a positive and welcome development, finally offering...
From Apophenia
Quitting Facebook is pointless; challenging them to do better is not
I’ve been critiquing moves made by Facebook for a long time and I’m pretty used to them being misinterpreted. When I lamented the development of the News Feed,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Beautiful BI on the IPad
An interesting post on 'beautiful mobile BI'. Next Doug Lautzenheiser on using RoamBI and other IPad BI methods. I have also experimented with the RoamBI App...
From My Biased Coin
Grade Inflation?
I know Harvard is supposed to be famous for its grade inflation, but that's not generally the case in my class (and, I think, for our CS classes in general). Having...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Computers Making Better Drugs
From the CACM, good overview on computer drug design. Another example of intelligence via directed simulation. The power of abduction.
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-05-23
Microsoft costs cut CSIRO IT jobs $3 million extra in licensing costs that clearly no-one had budgeted for, and lock-in that means there's no alternative but to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sarcasm Recognition
A paper on a method of sarcasm recognition. I use emoticons sometimes in personal communications to make it clear I am being humorous, or at least not completely...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Programming Dojo
Moderator's Note: This blog post was written by a university student in New Zealand who is very interested in teacher feedback on a new programming teaching tool...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Seeding a Startup Culture
What should a startup culture look like? Have been involved with a number now, both independent and within a much larger organization. They look similar, but are...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-05-22
xkcd: Infrastructures I've lost count of how many people sent me today's XKCD, complete with a bearded figure advocating use of open document formats… (tags: XKCD...
From Putting People First
Digital Death Day
On 20 May 2010 an event known as “Digital Death Day” brought together the businesses of social networking, data management and death care. One of its organisers...
From Putting People First