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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
Saffron is Cool Vendor
I have mentioned Saffron Technology a number of times in this blog. Visited them first about four years ago and have had recent conversations. An announcement today...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future Consumer
Future Consumer, by Carte Blanche. Includes Arnaud Frade of TNS Group, who I have heard on this subject before. Nothing very new, but some good points to repeat...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
First Course Outline
Is everyone this excited about their first course outline? I'm not sure why, but I'm feeling sort of giddy about it. I mean, sure, I've TA'ed before, and taught...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tesla Predicted Blackberry
Physicist Nikola Tesla is said to have predicted the Blackberry type device over a century ago. Best known for his invention of alternating current, high energy...
From Schneier on Security
Preventing Terrorist Attacks in Crowded Areas
On the New York Times Room for Debate Blog, I -- along with several other people -- was asked about how to prevent terrorist attacks in crowded areas. This isCameras...
From Putting People First
Findability and Exploration: the future of search
Stijn Debrouwere, a Belgian information architect, has published a long Peter Morville-inspired post on findability related issues. “The majority of people visiting...
From Putting People First
Smart Things
After posting the first chapter of his new book Smart Things: Ubiquitous Computing User Experience Design (see also this earlier post), Mike Kuniavsky is now doing...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Fratricide and the Ecology of Proposal Reviews
A friend of mine from Field X once served as a program officer at a major research funding agency. (Names changed to protect the innocent.) As part of a quality...
From Putting People First
What
The concept of social objects is pretty widely used in social interaction design, but we
From Computational Complexity
Gadget Love
Many of my fellow CS theorists are surprisingly technophobes. Don't own a cell phone. Begrudgingly got a credit card but still refuse to buy anything online. Still...
From Schneier on Security
Malcom Gladwell on Spies
Good quote: Translation: the proper function of spies is to remind those who rely on spies that the kinds of thing found out by spies can't be trusted. Nice...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Global Time Sink
Carr in Roughtype discusses the Web as a global time sink, and outlines efforts to go 'cold turkey' on using the Internet. One participant suggests that getting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Internet of Things Mashup
The Internet of Things conference starts today in London. Much more about it here. More information at the link, a blog, videos, etc. I will report on aspects...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Voice and Skype
In Computerworld: You can now make calls using Skype from Google Voice. There is also a unified caller ID between the two. Very nice connection that can make both...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dis-Loyalty Program
Clever thought: Is The Anti-Loyalty Program A Fun Way To Get Competitor Intelligence? by Evan SchumanA UK coffee retailer had an unusual idea, something he called...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
What's Different About Boys' and Girls' Interest in Computing?
Today's college-bound students have grown up immersed in the technology of computing, and what interests them is no longer the same as what attracted previous generations...
From The Eponymous Pickle
May/June Analytics
In the May June Analytics Magazine. A number of good articles including analytics in health care, text analytics, supply chain analytics overview. As usual, good...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
COMPETES Act Reauthorization Takes First Step Through Congress
Last Wednesday at the end of a long markup session, the House Science and Technology Committee approved a bill that would reauthorize the American COMPETES Act,...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson