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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
STOC Budget Questions
I hate to follow the interesting conversations on FOCS/STOC/SODA (please keep commenting) with the mundane, but Lance forced me asked me to be General Chair for...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-02-25
EU Data Protection Supervisor Warns Against ACTA, Calls 3 Strikes Disproportionate Very welcome - and beuatifully-constructed -...
From Schneier on Security
Small Planes and Lone Terrorist Nutcases
A Washington Post article concludes that small planes are not the next terror threat: Pilots of private planes fly about 200,000 small and medium-size aircraft...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Students to Business Career Streams
Microsoft is doing a number of things to help people enter and grow in technology careers. Yesterday there was a post on Microsoft On The Issues called Microsoft...
From Wild WebMink
Blog Move
With the change from Sun in the UK almost complete, I've decided to move my blog. Please adjust your feed, and read on over at Wild Webmink.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Superbowl Ad Analyses
Sands Research sends along complete rankings and background from their yearly Superbowl Ad study. " ... Leading neuromarketing firm Sands Research announced today...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Want a Job? Major in CS.
Carolyn Duffy Marsan writes in Network World that undergraduate enrollments in computer science are rising significantly at some of the nation’s large CS departments...
From The Eponymous Pickle
In-Store Food Preparation
Some time ago I mentioned the increasing dive for in-store automatic preparation of foods, here in the Chicago Sun Times, the manufacture of snack chips in the....
From Apophenia
Empowering Parents & Protecting Children in an Evolving Media Landscape
The FCC published a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) on the important topic of empowering parents and protecting youth in an era of an evolving media landscape.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Convergence of BI and BPM Examined
Holger Kisker in the Forrester blog writes about the convergence of business intelligence and business process management. ' ... When business processes finally...
From Schneier on Security
Remotely Spying on Kids with School Laptops
It's a really creepy story. A school issues laptops to students, and then remotely and surreptitiously turns on the camera. (Here's the lawsuit.) This is anLower...
From Putting People First
Millennials
This report on the values, attitudes, behaviors and demographic characteristics of the Millennial generation was prepared by the Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan...
From Putting People First
Google
Luca De Biase, the journalist I translated this morning, continues to add interesting commentary: Excerpts from this post (translated into English): “The Italian...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-02-24
When using open source makes you an enemy of the state Remember I mentioned the "Special 301" list yesterday, that US corporations...
From Schneier on Security
NSA Historical Documents
Just declassified: "A Reference Guide to Selected Historical Documents Relating to the National Security Agency/Central Security Service, 1931
From Putting People First
Google Video: Italian law is complicating the world
This Italian reflection on the Italian Google sentence, written by journalist Luca De Biase (in charge of the N
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Small Basic is Moving And Other Resources
Small Basic is not part of the Beginning Developer Learning Center. Looks like the whole landing page for the BDLC has been updated as well. Check out the Kids
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Design of Procter and Gamble
I have been reading The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage by Roger L. Martin of the Rotman School of Management in Toronto...
From My Biased Coin
Guest Post from David Karger
Continuing from my last "controversial" post, David Karger offered the following long comment, turned into a guest post:------------I wanted to post a comment on...
From The Eponymous Pickle