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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 Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Starter Resources for Robotics Learning
iRobot is probably the best known robotics company in the US. Their Roomba vacuuming robots and other household robots are widely used all over the place including...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-01-07
Why an Open Source Community Should not cede Leadership to a Commercial Entity This is a useful part of the discussion, apart from...
From Schneier on Security
Gift Cards and Employee Retail Theft
Retail theft by employees has always been a problem, but gift cards make it easier: At the Saks flagship store in Manhattan, a 23-year-old sales clerk was caught...
From Putting People First
Kenya: Taking money out of banks
Since cellphones became widely used in Kenya five years ago, they’ve become the bank card du jour. The Christian Science Monitor reports. “[In Kenya] with a mobile...
From Putting People First
In praise of design-hacking
The Design & Society group within the UK’s Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) has published a pamphlet by Scott Burnham...
From Putting People First
How the mobile Internet could change everything
The ubiquity of mobile phones and the growth of the internet will converge in the next decade. Luke Allnutt of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty thinks this is good...
From Putting People First
Will the new mobile era change the world for the better? MIT says
At MIT teams of the Media Lab’s Next Billion Network – our next generation of tech movers and shakers – are exploring new ways to harness the increasingly ubiquitous...
From Putting People First
Design for relevance
Harald Lamberts, Head of User Experience for Internet Services & Handsets at the Vodafone Group, wrote a thoughtful viewpoint article on DMI on the issue of relevance...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Bono Still Hasn
I don't get to blog much about technology policy issues anymore, but every once in a while something juicy comes along that is worth spending a few minutes responding...
From Schneier on Security
Nate Silver on the Risks of Airplane Terrorism
Over at fivethirtyeight.com, Nate Silver crunches the numbers and concludes that, at least as far as terrorism is concerned, air travel is safer than it's eververy...
From Schneier on Security
Another Contest: Fixing Airport Security
Slate is hosting an airport security suggestions contest: ideas "for making airport security more effective, more efficient, or more pleasant." Deadline is midday...
From Schneier on Security
David Brooks on Resilience in the Face of Security Imperfection
David Brooks makes some very good points in this New York Times op ed from last week: All this money and technology seems to have reduced the risk of future attack...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Eyetracking Web Useability: Review
A good review of the book, which is on my list, read the full, useful review: ' ... Eyetracking Web Usability is the outcome of the largest eyetracking study ever...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Legality of Remote Temperature Sensing
A look, from a perspective of legality, about using remote sensing. Some interesting technology mentioned and some of the privacy issues involved.
From Schneier on Security
TSA Logo Contest
Over at "Ask the Pilot," Patrick Smith has a great idea: Calling all artists: One thing TSA needs, I think, is a better logo and a snappy motto. Perhaps there's...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Intel Schools of Distinction 2010
An announcement arrived in my inbox about applications being open for this year’s Intel Schools of Distinction awards. Microsoft is one of the sponsors BTW. This...
From Schneier on Security
Breaching the Secure Area in Airports
An unidentified man breached airport security at Newark Airport on Sunday, walking into the secured area through the exit, prompting an evacuation of a terminal...
From My Biased Coin
New Paper: Information Asymmetries in Pay-Per-Bid Auctions
I'm happy to announce a new paper that answers, among other questions, how I spent a huge chunk of my winter holiday break. The paper is by me, John Byers, and...
From The Eponymous Pickle