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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
Teaching, Day One
First day of classes for me today. It's "spring", sort of, so I must be teaching Algorithms and Data Structures.Last year there were about 80 students in the class...
From Schneier on Security
More Surveillance in the UK
This seems like a bad idea: Police in the UK are planning to use unmanned spy drones, controversially deployed in Afghanistan, for the "routine" monitoring of...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-01-26
Mozilla, HTML5 video and codecs Excellent start to an explanation of Mozilla's position on H.264 and patent-encumbered CODECs.Mozilla...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
DigiGirlz Days Spring Schedule
Well the latest batch of DigiGirlz Days are starting to get scheduled. What are DigiGirlz Days? They are fun, interesting and educational events, sort of like a...
From Computational Complexity
The First Pseudorandom Generator--Probably
(The following was told to be by Ilan Newman at Dagstuhl 2009. His source was the book The Broken Dice and other mathematical tales of chance.) What was the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented Reality: Hype or Reality?
Good overview article in Computerworld that introduces you to mobile augmented reality, the players and possible directions. Value and adoption by the typical...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Should You Consider an App?
A good 16 page Forrester report, via ATG, requires registration. Is An iPhone Application Right For You?How to Decide if a Mobile Application Should be Part of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
CGT Picks ThinkVine
I have mentioned Thinkvine here a number of times, and have met with their management. Now they are among the Consumer Goods Technology Editors Picks.ThinkVine-...
From Schneier on Security
Penny Shooter Business Card
Nice. Of course, this means that the TSA will start banning wallets on airplanes.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
The Peacock Dances
January poses two challenges for high school computer science programs. For many high school sophomores and juniors, January can mean scheduling decisions forfun...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of January 25
January 25 Meeting The Election Assistance Commission is holding a meeting to handle regular business. 1 p.m., 1225 New York Avenue, Suite 150, Washington January...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More CPG Activity in e-Commerce
Large CPG has always had a reluctance to interfere with their very profitable existing channels by setting up their own e-commerce stores, lest brick-and-mortar...
From Computational Complexity
When is a theorem really proven?
One of the comments on this blog pointed out correctly that for a theorem to be accepted by the community is not a Eureka Moment. It is a social process. The author...
From The Noisy Channel
Workshop on Search and Social Media (SSM 2010)
The 3rd Annual Workshop on Search in Social Media (SSM 2010) will be held on Wednesday, February 3rd at the Polytechnic Institute in Brooklyn, NY. It’s co-located...
From Schneier on Security
The Abdulmutallab that Should Have Been Connected
The notion that U.S. intelligence should have "connected the dots," and caught Abdulmutallab, isn't going away. This is a typical example: So you'd need comeresponds...
From Wild WebMink
? Making A Stand
Will Google stand up to France and Italy, too? The issue at stake here is what some call "common-carrier status" for networks....
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting links 25 January 2010
Last week
From Apophenia
Public by Default, Private when Necessary
This post was originally written for the DML Central Blog. If you're interested in Digital Media and Learning, you definitely want to check this blog out. With...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Tom Friedman on innovation and National Lab Day
Tom Friedman has a wonderful op-ed in today’s New York Times.
From The Eponymous Pickle