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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
Mypaint: Drawing With No Talent
A newly discovered drawing system called Mypaint for freehand images, does not make you a graphics artist, but a nice start. Via Downloadsquad.
From Schneier on Security
Bletchley Park Archives to Go Online
This is good: Simon Greenish, chief executive officer of the Bletchley Park Trust, said the plan was for the centre's entire archive to be digitised. [...] He...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IPhone in Trouble?
Is the IPhone in trouble because its business model is not open enough? You can build some clever things that win at first, but will they survive when challenged...
From My Biased Coin
STOC 2010, and Some Business Meeting Notes
STOC 2010 appears to be running quite smoothly. I've been popping in and out -- the problem with being a local is that I actually have to go home at reasonable...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Auctioning Lincoln History
This blog has a number of times covered auction technologies. This resulted from a number of studies of auction processes inside the enterprise. Recently I have...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digitizing the First Moment of Truth
Former P&Ger Randall Beard in his Marketing with Impact Blog about digitization of the first-moment-of-truth, the interaction of shopper and store at the shelf....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mapping Initiatives via Google and Bing
An intriguing race between major search engine providers, using health data:Bing, Google Offering Dueling
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