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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
Google CEO Pushes Mobile
In ComputerWorld, from a recent talk, Google CEO Eric Schmidt says that mobile devices are replacing all other tyes of personal computing. Among the evidence '...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Build a Playground!
A playground is generally described as an area designed for children to play freely. Oftentimes playgrounds include jungle gyms, see-saws, overhead ladders, sandboxes...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
New Members of the National Academy of Engineering
The National Academy of Engineering has announced the Members of the Class of 2010.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Campbell Soup Labels and Neuromarketing
Good case study on the use of non-conscious biometric measurements to determine consumers reaction to packaging. Note this was a two year study, indicating considerable...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile Intelligence
In the January/February issue of IEEE Intelligent Systems, a number of papers devoted to mobile information retrieval and contextual knowledge systems. Including...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-02-17
Music Journalism is the New Piracy yet another illustration why the proposed three-strikes laws are unbalanced and unjust. TheRights...
From Schneier on Security
Botnets Attacking Each Other
A new Trojan Horse named Spy Eye has code that kills Zeus, a rival botnet.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Where is the Computer Science at Education Technology Conferences?
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Creative Destruction and Gillette
Walter Riker sends this interesting quote and link along. Profound thoughts. Read it all.Gillette, Razor Blades, and Creative Destructionby Jeff StibelGillette...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Online Communities Building Loyalty
A general article on the topic, but concentrates too much on the current rather than the future possibilities, which are building rapidly. Worth a look.
From Computational Complexity
e to the pi vs pi to the e
(ANSWER to Trivia Questions from Last Post: The last president who became president NOT by being VP and having the prez die, but then did not run again, was Rutherford...
From Schneier on Security
Detecting Cheating by Analyzing Erased Answers
I had no idea this was being done, but erased answers are now analyzed on standardized tests. Schools with a high number of wrong-to-right changes across multiple...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-02-16
Three-Strikes Can't Work In A World Of Compromised PCs Read this important discussion from the "IP" list, which explores the reasons...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Make Haste Slowly
On Monday I posted a link to An idiots guide to really bad programming. It is an interesting list but as I read though it I realized that most of what is lists...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Agent-Based Consumer Market Modeling
A number of my former colleagues at Procter & Gamble have co-authored a paper with some great people I met at Argonne National Labs. Abstract below. Fascinating...
From My Biased Coin
FOCS/STOC : What's the Big Deal?
As mentioned recently, the FOCS submission site is now up, and STOC acceptances have come out. Related blog posts have arrived, including an amusing one by Dick...
From The Noisy Channel
Guest Demo: Eric Iverson
I’m back from vacation, and still digging my way out of everything that’s piled up while I’ve been offline. While I catch up, I thought I’d share with you a demo...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Layar Takes a Big Step Forward
The Layar augmented reality application (AR) has taken a big step forward. It is in talks with some top handset manufacturers, which has led to the speculationpress...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Multiple Mobile IPhone Gmail Accounts
For those of you like me that have multiple Gmail accounts, mine based on multiple clients, there is a new IPhone App that lets you handle these from one place....
From Computational Complexity