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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
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
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of March 15
March 16 Hearing: The Research and Science Education Subcommittee of the House Science and Technology Committee will hold a hearing on broadening participation...
From Schneier on Security
Typosquatting
"Measuring the Perpetrators and Funders of Typosquatting," by Tyler Moore and Benjamin Edelman: Abstract. We describe a method for identifying "typosquatting",...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Designing a Hybrid Card Game
I'm working on a design for a card game that incorporates a mobile device into the game play. It's for my game design class final project, which is intended to...
From Wild WebMink
Blog Moved - Reminder Again
Just a reminder that this blog has now moved to Wild Webmink where you will be most welcome to join me from now on.
From The Eponymous Pickle
SXSW Conference Stream
I notice that there has been more than usual buzz about the SXSW conference (South by Southwest) this year. Its a set of interactive, film, and music festivalsits...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Valuing Spontaneity
I was surprised a while back by getting a number of birthday wishes in a social networking package from people whose names I did not immediately recognize. I quickly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Foursquare for Business
An interesting item on on the Foursquare space about business applications for the social networking game. Includes a number of examples of businesses doing promotions...
From The Noisy Channel
Is Spontaneity Overrated?
It used to be a surprise when people remembered our birthdays, but in the twenty-first century Facebook ensures that we will
From Apophenia
Speaking about Privacy and Publicity
Yesterday I gave the opening keynote at SXSW to over 5000 people (OMG, that room was huuuuuuuge). My talk was about privacy and publicity and I spent a lot of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cognition and Culture
Mind Hacks posts about the Cognition and Culture blog: ' ... covers the territory where culture and psychology meet ... ' . Also points to their reader section...
From Putting People First
Four visions of the world tomorrow
Sir George Cox was the closing speaker at The Big Rethink, a ‘Redesigning Business Summit’ organised by The Economist, in association with the Design Council, that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
When BI Does not Work
Interesting piece on the issues with BI. ' ... When a user of a BI application complains about the application not being useful - something that I hear way too-...
From Putting People First
Urban resilience
Merging complex systems science and ecology, resilience scientists have broken new ground on understanding
From Putting People First
The digital disconnect
In relentless pursuit of ‘connecting,’ we miss out on each other The Seattle Times argues that while communication and gaming gadgets have convenienced and connected...
From My Biased Coin
And More Fun News....
Right after Stuart Shieber sent me news on CS undergrad earnings, Harry Lewis sent me two additional links. The first is a nice Boston Globe piece on the increase...
From My Biased Coin