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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 Putting People First
Augmented reality: it
Charles Arthur investigates in The Observer [Sunday edition of The Guardian] how the ways in which we watch sport, read magazines and do business with each other...
From Putting People First
A conversation with Microsoft
Microsoft’s Channel 9 conducted a half hour video interview with Bill Buxton, Principal Researcher for Microsoft Research and Albert Shum, Director of Mobile Experience...
From Computational Complexity
Notes to My Dad
My father Paul Fortnow passed away thirty years ago today. Five years ago I wrote about some of the lessons I learned from him. Suppose I could go contact him back...
From The Noisy Channel
Can We Build a Distributed Trust Network?
Mathew Ingram posted an interview with Craig Newmark (the Craig of craigslist fame) in which the latter argued that what the web needs is a “distributed trust network”...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Followers Does not Prove Influence
Good piece in the NYT: The Million Follower Fallacy: Audience Size Doesn't Prove Influence on Twitter Sign in to Recommend' ... A group of researchers have proven...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Total Engagement Book
Although published late last year, this book was just brought to my attention: Total Engagement: Using Games and Virtual Worlds to Change the Way People Work and...
From The Noisy Channel
Are Ashton Kutcher and Puff Daddy the Most Influential Twitter Users?
In a post on ReadWriteWeb, Sarah Perez summarizes “Measuring User In?uence in Twitter: The Million Follower Fallacy“, a recent research paper by Meeyoung Cha, Hamed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented Reality Windshields
Early work at GM, but I do not expect it t see it available soon.-
From The Eponymous Pickle
Very Rapid Book Scanning
Have recently taken a look at how to get printed data from books and manuals into a database. There are some new methods that look to make in volume operationsFrom...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Preserving Your Giant Squid
Plastination: For several years von Hagens and his team experimented using smaller squid, and found that the fragility of the skin needed a slower replacement...
From The Eponymous Pickle
3D Universe
You can experience Hubble's 3D universe in 3D. More background and images here.-
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Supply Chain Analytics Needed
In Sascom Magazine, at a recent conference of industry practitioners: ' ... Industry incumbents, academia and industry analysts all agreed that in the new-economy...
From Schneier on Security
Bringing Lots of Liquids on a Plane at Schiphol
This would worry me, if the liquid ban weren't already useless. The reporter found the security flaw in the airport's duty-free shopping system. At Schiphol airport...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SETI at 50 - No Evidence Yet
Searching for extra-terrestrial intelligence. Despite extensive crowd sourced efforts there has yet to be any evidence of ET. There are some useful comments (and...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Bringing the Epic Win to Real Life
Jane McGonigal said at TED 2010 that the world spends 3 billion hours per week playing games, but she'd like to see that number increase to 21 billion hours. You...
From The Eponymous Pickle
You Are Who You Know
Intriguing paper with privacy implications:You Are Who You Know:Inferring User Profiles in Online Social NetworksIn this paper, we ask the question: given attributes...
From Computational Complexity
Unique Games Redux
With spring quarter arriving, I will take a break from book writing on P v. NP and come back to blogging. I hit my goal of getting past the point of no return (about...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog