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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 My Biased Coin
60-40 papers
A recent paper I worked on was a 60-40 paper. That's what I call it when one of the authors does noticeably more of the work. Really, it could be a 70-30 paper...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-04-07
IBM: Back to the Bad Old Days? Pretty good analysis of the IBM patent aggression from ESR: "IBM has reached a critical juncture. For the last decade the company...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
2010 US Imagine Cup Community Showcase
Please join Microsoft for the 2010 US Imagine Cup Community Showcase The US Imagine Cup team would like to extend an invitation to you...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Foundation of Semantic Web Technologies
I had a very good conversation today with Prof Pascal Hitzler. Author of the books: Semantic Web - Grundlagen and Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies. He is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brand Names in Scrabble Games
In the BBC: Proper nouns are now allowed in new versions of the Scrabble board game. Think of the opportunity for product placement! Though how many people play...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Balancing the Needs of Industry and Academia
As I embark on this journey that is a PhD, I constantly remind myself of my goal of remaining useful. I want to retain practical skills that could be used in outside...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
ACM Washington Update, Vol. 14.2 (April 6, 2010)
CONTENTS [1] Newsletter Highlights [2] 2009 ACM Turing Award Goes to Charles Thacker [3] USACM and CRA Express Concerns with Senate Cybersecurity Bill [4] Science...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The Last Bug
I spent much of yesterday working on a computer program. A friend of mine wrote it in Visual Basic .NET and I was converting it to C# so that it could be used as...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
External-Memory Sorting in Java : the First Release
In my previous post, you were invited to help with a reference implementation of external sorting in Java. Several people tested and improved the code. I like the...
From Computational Complexity
Finding the Right Model
Last fall I wrote about the different focus on models and proofs in the Econ and CS theory communities. Today I'll focus on the purpose of a model and what makes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter and Gamble Franchises
An overview of P&G's activities in the world of franchising. Including Mr. Clean car washes and Tide Dry Cleaning.
From Schneier on Security
Privacy and Control
In January, Facebook Chief Executive, Mark Zuckerberg, declared the age of privacy to be over. A month earlier, Google Chief Eric Schmidt expressed a similar sentiment...
From Wild WebMink
? The Digital Election
The UK Election needs to have digital liberty on the agenda. And more.
From Putting People First
The Middle of Moore
Mike Kuniavsky has posted a pre-print draft of the first chapter of his new book Smart Things: Ubiquitous Computing User Experience Design (see also this earlier...
From Putting People First
Natural user interfaces are not natural
In his bimonthly column in the ACM CHI magazine, Interactions, Donald Norman argues that most gestures are neither natural nor easy to learn or remember. “Gestures...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Observational Models Fed to my Phone
There are some things that terrestrial observers can learn from astrophysics. Even if you are mostly interested in commercial applications. Its an example of how...
From My Biased Coin
Sexual Harassment Policies (Yale v. Harvard)
My brother, in what I assume is a blatant attempt to be mentioned in this blog (Hi Steve!!!), sent me a link to the following article about a new rule (or, as...
From Schneier on Security