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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 Schneier on Security
Interview with a Nigerian Internet Scammer
Really interesting reading. Scam-Detective: How did you find victims for your scams? John: First you need to understand how the gangs work. At the bottom are...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cell Phone Wallets
In Forbes: Smart phones as payment systems. Considerable implications because smartphone acting as a wallet is also a communications device at the point of sale...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-02-11
Copyrights and wrongs While Matthew's discussion is good (and the links are very useful), he misses the key point: that communities...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Programming Contests
In various contexts the subject of programming contests has come up in conversations I have been having with both teachers and friends in industry. There are, to...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
FOSS Workshop Kicks Off: Day 1
Forty-five people met today in Newport Beach, CA for the first day of a three-day workshop supported by the CCC on Free/Open Source Software.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Buzz in Use
I am now signed into Google Buzz and understand generally how it works. I have also attached this blog to Buzz to see how that works. It also integrates location...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Open Sourcing your software hurts your competitiveness as a researcher?
Almost all software I write for my research is open sourced. Some fellow researcher argued today that I risk reducing the gap between and my pursuers. Similarly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Overcome Media Fragmentation with Next-Generation Marketing Planning Tools
Upcoming webinar of interest, given on March 18, 2010, click through for more information, times and registration:Program: Consumer Goods Technology webCONNECTIONseries...
From Schneier on Security
Terrorists Prohibited from Using iTunes
The iTunes Store Terms and Conditions prohibits it: Notice, as I read this clause not only are terrorists -- or at least those on terrorist watch lists -- prohibited...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SNCR Research Briefing
' ... Please join the Society for New Communications Research, Middleberg Communications and Marketwire for a complimentary research briefing on February 25thRegister...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Poka-Yoke
We often spoke about Poka-Yoke in the enterprise. Also known as fail-safing. Designing the process so it is impossible or much harder to make big errors. Despite...
From Putting People First
The future of reading
Josh Quittner of Fortune Magazine reflects on how tables will change magazines, books and newspapers. “In fact, for the past year I’ve been pushing the theory that...
From Computational Complexity
STOC and More
The Snows of Maryland are keeping Bill away from this blog again. Here in Chicago we deal with snow (and even earthquakes) in stride--my kids still have yet toaccepted...
From Wild WebMink
? Testing Times
Freedom In the Cloud: Software Freedom, Privacy, and Security for Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing See/hear Eben Moglen's useful discussion...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Small Basic 0.8 Now with Silverlight
There is a new version of Small Basic out this week. More details about it on the Small Basic blog but briefly: This release features: Addition...
From Putting People First
Dan Ariely: hidden forces that shape our decisions
In an interview on the website of Forbes India, the renowned behavioural economist Dan Ariely talks about some of the hidden forces that shape our decisions. “For...
From Putting People First
Some ditch social networks to reclaim time, privacy
As the social networking train gathers momentum, some riders are getting off. USA Today reports. “Their reasons run the gamut from being besieged by online “friends”...
From Putting People First