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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
Perils of Market Research
In Bloomberg Businessweek: What can and cannot be measured with some market research tools. Very good introduction to the inadequacies of the survey. ' ... It-...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Getting Yelped
In BusinessWeek, A new dynamic, but not any different than newspapers have experienced in the past. Also spaks to the motivation of review/criticisms in general...
From Computational Complexity
Repost on Turing and Wasserman- lets talk about...
One of the commenters on the post on the recent Turing Award and the Waterman award pointed out that the context I gave lead to a discussion that was NOT aboutCan...
From Schneier on Security
Secret Questions
Interesting research: Analysing our data for security, though, shows that essentially all human-generated names provide poor resistance to guessing. For an attacker...
From Putting People First
MicroPublicPlaces
Situated Technologies Pamphlet 6: MicroPublicPlaces Spring 2010 Marc B
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Windows Phone 7 Series Programming
Programming phones seems to be the hot new thing these days. Yesterday Microsoft announced the availability of free programming tools for the new Windows PhoneVisual...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter Visualizing Plant Designs
From Consumer Goods Technology: P&G using visualization to optimize plants via fast prototyping. Includes images and vendors involved. Plant design and improvement...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Geotagging the Future
Daniel Inniss makes some useful comments on Geotagging and business:'Geotagging the Future with Foursquare, Gowalla and TwitterWritten Location based services are...
From Schneier on Security
USB Combination Lock
Here's a promotional security product designed by someone who knows nothing about security. The USB drive is "protected" by a combination lock. There are only...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
External-memory shuffling in linear time?
You can sort large files while using little memory. The Unix sort tool is a widely available implementation of this idea. Files are written to disk sequentially...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Eric Brewer wins ACM
Eric Brewer has won the ACM – Infosys Foundation Award “for his contributions to the design and development of highly scalable Internet services.”
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Chuck Thacker wins Turing Award
Chuck Thacker has won the ACM A.M. Turing Award (quoting ACM) “for his pioneering design and realization of the Alto, the first modern personal computer, and the...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Thoughts On AP CS Principles
The Advanced Placement Computer Science exam is one of the smallest and least diverse members of the Advanced Placement suite of College Board exams. Very few minorities...
From Computational Complexity
Central Website for FOCS as a whole (guest post)
(Guest Post by Paul Beame) There is now a central website for the FOCS conference as a whole here!! In addition to links to the most recent and upcoming...
From The Eponymous Pickle
In-Store Marketing Measurements
In AdAge: A favorite topic of mine: Shopping Aisles at Cutting Edge of Consumer Research and Tech: They Learned It From You: Marketers Working to Better Understand...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 15 March 2010
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From My Biased Coin
Kindle Textbooks
I've had a couple of people point out to me that Probability and Computing: Randomized Algorithms and Probabilistic Analysis (my book) is now available on Kindle...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
National Research Council Announces Prizes in Cyberdetterence Research
The Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) of the National Research Council (NRC) has announced prizes for research in cyberdeterrence. The CSTB...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Relentless Growth of Online Shopping
In FastCompany: The continuing growth of online shopping. Physical stores continuing to link up. -
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM