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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 Computational Complexity
New Constructive Aspects of the Lov
Guest Post by Bernhard Haeupler The Lovász Local Lemma (LLL), slightly simplified, states that: Given a set of “bad” events, if for every event A there exists,...
From The Noisy Channel
Google Follow Finder
I know there’s lots of interesting stuff coming out at the Chirp Twitter developer conference this week, and I’m still catching up on it all. But I am happy to...
From The Noisy Channel
Deadline to Register for HCIR Challenge
If you are interested in participating in the HCIR Challenge, please let me know as soon as possible–and in any case by April 30th. The New York Times and the LDC...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Qinghai Quake and Robots
What is it with disasters? They
From The Eponymous Pickle
Buzz Adds Sharing Button
New ways to publish buzz. Have now been using Buzz since its launch. Have been pushing these blog posts and Tweets to it. Works fine among my Google mail correspondents...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Library of Congress to Archive Tweets
The US Library of Congress has announced that it will archive all public tweets. See more in it's blog. To be mine-able, for ever and ever, all your mundane thoughts...
From Schneier on Security
Matt Blaze Comments on his 15-Year-Old "Afterword"
Fifteen years ago, Matt Blaze wrote an Afterword to my book Applied Cryptography. Here are his current thoughts on that piece of writing.
From Computational Complexity
Tom L DVD and Birthday and You Tube and...
April 9 was Tom Lehrer's 82nd birthday! To celebrate I give you breaking news that a Tom L DVD was released April 13, 2010. It seems to have some videos of him...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmenting City Visits
From the CACM: Augmented Reality Brings Movie Magic to City Visits: " ... Using a combination of personalized location-based services and augmented reality, in...
From Putting People First
Psychologist Kahneman on experience and memory
Using examples from vacations to colonoscopies, Nobel laureate and founder of behavioral economics Daniel Kahneman reveals in a February 2010 lecture at TED how...
From Schneier on Security
Externalities and Identity Theft
Chris Hoofnagle has a new paper: "Internalizing Identity Theft." Basically, he shows that one of the problems is that lenders extend credit even when credit applications...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
K-12 Computing Teachers Workshop
The Computer Science Teachers Association sent out an announcement about an upcoming workshop hosted in Partnership with the Anita Borg Institute for Women and...
From Wild WebMink
? Seven Patent Reforms While We Wait For Nirvana
We'll not eliminate software patents overnight, but some reforms might be possible.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
More re DARPA
John Markoff had an extremely interesting profile of DARPA Director Regina Dugan in today’s NY Times.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Interactive Data Graphics in Media
Elissa Pellizzon Fink of Tableau writes about this good example of showing embedded complex graphics: "We have a new product that is more of an online media product...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
On the design of design
Following a blog post by John D. Cook, I started reading Fred Brooks‘ latest book. Brooks is famous, among other things, for his earlier book, the Mythical Man...
From Schneier on Security
Terrorist Attacks and Comparable Risks, Part 2
John Adams argues that our irrationality about comparative risks depends on the type of risk: With "pure" voluntary risks, the risk itself, with its associated...
From The Eponymous Pickle
McDonalds Social Media Chief
How can it not be serious of McDonald's has just added its first social media chief?-
From My Biased Coin
What's the Co-Author Line?
Continuing the past discussion on authorship issues, I've been considering the questions: at what point has a person involved in the project done so little work...
From The Eponymous Pickle