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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 Schneier on Security
SnapScouts
I sure hope this is a parody: SnapScouts Keep America Safe! Want to earn tons of cool badges and prizes while competing with you friends to see who can be the...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Acceptance rate versus impact
Should you attend the most selective school? Maybe not: Students who attended more selective colleges do not earn more than other students who were accepted and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Local Inventory NoWhere Close
In a previous post there was a mention of local inventory search, knowing where the inventory of a product may reside. Storefrontbacktalk has a post that suggests...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Japanese Brainwave Initiative
An interesting project out of Japan. I remember well the Japanese AI initiative, which led to some crucial results in robotics. Though the generalized Japanese...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of May 10
May 13 Hearing: The Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet of the House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a hearing on the national...
From Computational Complexity
NSF at 60
On May 10, 1950, Harry Truman signed Public Law 507 creating the National Science Foundation based on Vannevar Bush's Science - The Endless Frontier. The NSF is...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-05-10
FSF launches free software extension listing for OpenOffice.org Pity it came to this. The FSF would have been perfectly happy with proper classification of the...
From Schneier on Security
9/11 Made us Safer?
There's an essay on the Computerworld website that claims I implied, and believe, so: OK, so strictly-speaking, he doesn't use those exact words, but the implication...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 10 May 2010
You have to love the Internet and especially twitter. You can hear about things that you
From The Noisy Channel
Celebrating Six Months at Google New York
Today I celebrate six months of working at Google. I’m having a great time, and I wanted to take a moment to share a bit about my experience thus far. First, a...
From Wild WebMink
? New Week, New Column, New Job
Starting the week with a new column in ComputerWorldUK and a new job as well.
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Brands Grow: First Read
Correspondent Byron Sharp, Professor at the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute, University of South Australia, has a new book: How Brands Grow: What Marketers Don't Know....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Reality as Pain Relief
The use of games and virtual reality for pain relief. From CACM.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
A great run at NSF CISE!
Three quick notes … First, I can’t believe that there weren’t more comments on John King’s terrific post,
From Putting People First
Tell-all generation learns to keep things offline
Members of the under 30 tell-all generation are rethinking what it means to live out loud. “The conventional wisdom suggests that everyone under 30 is comfortable...
From Putting People First
Homesense project launched
Tinker London (the people behind Arduino) started a collaboration with EDF R&D on Homesense, an open user-centered research project investigating the use of smart...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shopping at the Mall of the Future
In Retail Traffic a fairly good exploratory look at shopping in the next decade. Overplays, yes, but reasonable speculative views based on existing technologies...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Scratch and Eighth Graders
I finished teaching the third round of my mini-course on Friday, and was so exhausted (in a good way) that I accidentally fell asleep at 9pm.This year, I tried ...
From Wild WebMink