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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
Tableau Examples Blog
A blog of Tableau examples. For example, constructing radial charts.-
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Teaching Computer Science in High School
Continuing on the theme of excellence in education, I would like to briefly reflect on teaching computer science in Ontario high schools. I have to point out that...
From The Noisy Channel
You Can
Lately, I’ve been musing about the Herb Simon quote that launched–or at least popularized–the concepts of information overload and attention economics: in an information...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-02-28
U.K. bill would 'outlaw open Wi-Fi' At a recent debate in the House of Lords on the Digital Economy Bill, a number of amendments...
From Putting People First
New media and its superpowers
Mimi Ito, cultural anthropologist and associate researcher at the University of California Humanities Research Institute, co-led a MacArthur Foundation-funded three...
From Putting People First
When American and European ideas of privacy collide
An Italian ruling against Google highlights the clash between Europe
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Songdo City, South Korea
Regret I cannot attend this call. I have been pitched a number of these 'smart cities' and related ideas during my connection with innovation centers. All intriguing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented Maps
Ted talk on augmented maps in Bing from the Snapdragon developer and how it includes Twitter, Flickr and other geolocated blog content Have not taken a look at...
From Wild WebMink
Blog Moved
A reminder: If you are following me here on blogs.sun.com, please change your bookmarks and feeds to read http://webmink.com instead, as I have moved all my blogging...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-02-27
Europe 'will not accept' three strikes in Acta treaty While this is all good, it is not sufficient as ACTA will address far more...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Being Investigated?
My former colleague John Sopko has published a paper from the Washington Legal Foundation titled
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
NASA Be A Martian Pathfinder Innovation Challenge
Back last November I posted a short link to NASA
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Homophone Lessons
Squids make great examples.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Recommending New Things
New ideas in adding novelty to recommendation algorithms. Have always thought that accuracy is not everything. I don't always want the same thing, give me something...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Creating a Location-Based Service
In Adage, I like the basic idea. Especially since the more I have looked at services like FourSquare, the more I think there is a big idea that is being missed....
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Random Number Generation Method
Having a good random number generator is critical for constructing simulation methods to build models. Some new reported progress is reported:" ... New Approach...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Policy Highlights from Communications of the ACM - February 2010 (Vol. 53, No. 2)
Below is a list of items with policy relevance from the February issue of Communications of the ACM. As always, much of the material in CACM is premium content,...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Recognizing Excellence in Education
The TA Mentor program here at Carleton has been run in some departments for a few years now, but is in its first year in the School of Computer Science. One of...
From Computational Complexity
Is Math too hard?
Are humans good at Math? In the movie Oh God Book II God (played by George Burns) says that Math was a mistake, I made it too hard!. While I am reluctant to...
From My Biased Coin