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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
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
Voice Driven Web
From the CACM:" ... IBM Exploring voice-driven methods for the third-world webIBM Research India has launched the Spoken Web, a network designed to use phones,...
From Schneier on Security
Ninth Workshop on Economics and Information Security
Earlier this week, the Ninth Workshop on Economics and Information Security (WEIS 2010) was held at Harvard. As always, it was a great workshop with some veryliveblogged...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI and Stock Picking
In Technology Review: Text analytics method that picks stocks better than the pros. Which pro? Any pros? I have seen such methodologies of various stripes. My questions...
From Computational Complexity
Sims Complexity
I called home last night and my daughter Molly had an exciting story to tell. She was at her friend Danielle's house (the same Molly and Danielle from the video...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Academic publishing is archaic
Technological progress tends to increase the available information. Thus, our capacity to manage this information becomes overloaded (hence the term information...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-06-10
Copyright: The Elephant in the Middle of the Glee Club Well worth reading this article. The TV programme 'Glee' features a singing club as the backdrop for a situational...
From Schneier on Security
Hiring Hackers
Any essay on hiring hackers quickly gets bogged down in definitions. What is a hacker, and how is he different from a cracker? I have my own definitions, but I'd...
From My Biased Coin
Branding Your Research (and Yourself)
In honor of being at EC, a post on branding. In theory, your research will be judged and appreciated based on its intrinsic quality, and your scientific reputation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Second Life Downsizes
Second Life, the well known virtual world that attracted large investments in time and money from companies like IBM, Kraft and Circuit City, announced a 30% downsizing...
From My Biased Coin
EC Day 1
EC is an interesting mix of theory/AI/economics and many other things as well (data mining, social computing, user interfaces....) Definitely a bit of a hodgepodge...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kraft, Procter and J&J Talk Marketing
Great article fronm CGT overviewing the Marketing Summit this week: " ... Kraft, P&G, J&J Unite to Share Sales & Marketing Insights June 9, 2010 - More than 200...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Technology is Not a Replacement for Face-to-Face Instruction
A couple of days ago, the Chronicle of Higher Education had an interesting article about Salman Khan, a fellow who quit his job as a financial analyst to startRethinking...
From Schneier on Security