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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
Laser is 50 Years Old
The functional laser is 50 years old in 2010. It was predicted as early as 1917 in a paper by Einstein. A very remarkable achievement with many applications. ...
From Michael Nielsen
Interesting sentences
From Pierre Levy’s book Collective Intelligence: mankind’s emerging world in cyberspace: Groups learn even more slowly than individuals. The flipside to this is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Practicing the Google Rule
Michael Schrage asks why many people do not use the information easily available to them. Obvious, but also worth repeating. We were always taught that before...
From Schneier on Security
Outsourcing to an Indian Jail
This doesn't seem like the best idea: Authorities in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh are planning to set up an outsourcing unit in a jail. The unit...
From Computational Complexity
Boycotting Arizona
I heard a suggestion that computer science conferences not be held in Arizona because of their new anti-immigration law. Both Bill and I have discussed academic...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
2010 U.S. Innovative Education Forum!
Do You Innovate? Apply now for the 2010 U.S. Innovative Education Forum! You could be selected to attend events in Washington, DC this summer and Cape Town, South...
From My Biased Coin
Harvard News Items
Some highlights: 1) From the Crimson: "An undergraduate has been dismissed from Harvard College after allegedly hacking into online accounts of the teaching staff...
From Putting People First
Embedded anthropology
Anthropologist Simon Roberts, who manages the social science research and design research team for Digital Health Group at Intel in Ireland, spoke last week at...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google and the Newspaper Industry
In the Atlantic: Quite interesting detailed article: How to Save the News, by James Fallows: " ... Everyone knows that Google is killing the news business. Few...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Engaging to Compete
New from the Seriosity blog: Engaging to Compete. Also a link there to a full chapter of the book. I talk about the book at greater length here. Its about using...
From Schneier on Security
Insect-Based Terrorism
Sounds like fearmongering to me. How real is the threat? Many of the world's most dangerous pathogens already are transmitted by arthropods, the animal phylum...
From Computational Complexity
When to go Low Tech
Recently someone asked me to subreferee a paper for a conference. She emailed me a pdf file but when I printed it out it was unreadable- the spacing was all off...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of May 17
May 20 Hearing: The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee will hold a hearing on the nomination of Carl Wieman to be the Associate Director for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Iconoclasts Think
A good podcast: Featured Guest: Gregory Berns, the Distinguished Chair of Neuroeconomics at Emory University and author of Iconoclast: A Neuroscientist Reveals...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neural Data and fMRI Scans Confirmed
In Roger Dooley's Neuromarketing Blog: ' ... Now, new research published in Nature has shown that there is indeed a correlation between neuronal activity and what...
From Putting People First
User experiences for children, for seniors and for play
UX Matters is another one of these great resources for the user experience community. Here three recent articles: Designing user experiences for children By Heather...
From Putting People First
Bringing behavioural change from lab to studio
Nick Marsh recently published an article with Dan Lockton in the fourth edition of Touchpoint, the Service Design Network journal. The issue is completely focused...
From Schneier on Security