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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 Female Perspective of Computer Science
Networking is Key
Time and time again I find that networking truly is the key to a successful career. It's amazing what kind of opportunities arise because of who you know.During...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Trading latency for quality in research
I am not opposed to the Publish or Perish mantra. I am an academic writer. I am what I publish. We all think of researchers as people wearing laboratory coats,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intel Monitors Social Networks
Several reports are out about how Intel is monitoring the buzz in social networks regarding their Superbowl ads. This is hardly news, since if I had spent four...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of February 8
February 10 Hearing: The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on cybercrime and identity theft. 10 a.m., 226 Dirksen Building The House Science and...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-02-08
SourceForge turns off "blanket blocking" Good to see SourceForge being responsive here and deciding to take this risk. The draconian...
From Schneier on Security
More Details on the Chinese Attack Against Google
Three weeks ago, Google announced a sophisticated attack against them from China. There have been some interesting technical details since then. And the NSA is...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 8 February 2010
Well did you watch the Super Bowl? I confess that I did not. I
From Putting People First
Microsoft Research Social Computing Symposium 2010
For the past four years, Microsoft Research (MSR) has sponsored a symposium on social computing that “brings together academic and industry researchers, developers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Where Does this Blog Come From?
This blog was originally established to communicate to visitors at Procter & Gamble's Innovation Centers. I was asked during many visits that major retailers and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Video Ubiquity
I had thought that video had become as prevasive as it could be. Good GigaOm article on how falling prices are driving it much further. Will introduce new challenges...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Report on Spam Content of the Web
An analysis of some recent Websense stats point to the finding that " ... 95% of User Generated Content is either malicious in nature or spam ... " . Not sureFull...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Bliink Web Design Competition for Texas High School Students
The Microsoft Corporation, NASA, the Texas Business & Education Coalition, and the State of Texas would like to invite you and your students to participate in the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Better Ways to Manage Knowledge
Good piece on the subject, they relate some of the same problems we saw in the enterprise regarding institutionalizing knowledge ... and implementing a solution...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
K-12 Events at SIGCSE
I'd like to let everyone know that the early registration deadline for SIGCSE 2010 is coming up at the end of January. While SIGCSE runs from March 11-13, there...
From Putting People First
Live at Interaction
Niklas Wolkert & Brad Nunnally provide their second report on Johnnyy Holland on the Interaction10 conference in Savannah, Georgia – this time focused on the second...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Beginning to Rethink CS Education at NSF
The President released his $3.8 trillion budget on Monday setting off a flurry of activity in the Nation's Capital. The budget sets the Administration's priorities...
From Schneier on Security
New Attack on Threefish
At FSE 2010 this week, Dmitry Khovratovich and Ivica Nikolic presented a paper where they cryptanalyze ARX algorithms (algorithms that use only addition, rotation...
From The Noisy Channel
Vacation
Just letting readers know that I’ll be on vacation for the next week. If you are starved for reading materials, check out some of the blogs I read.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog