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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 Putting People First
As we consume Apples and BlackBerrys, natural world beats a sensory retreat
Technology has drawn us into our interconnected webs, in the office, on the street, on the park bench, to the point that we exist virtually everywhere except in...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Administration Finally Releases Open Government Initiative
After a few months of waiting, the Obama Administration released its Open Government Initiative last week. The initiative was just the start of what appears to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Comparing Real Prices
Michigan economics prof Mark Perry compares prices for a stereo system and for a state of the art TV. In 1958 and in 2009 in hours of wages. Insightful.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rise of Asia
Astute colleague Wim Van de Velde points me to this TEDIndia talk where Hans Rosling uses Gapminder charts to point out the rise of Asia. ' ... Hans Rosling....
From Computational Complexity
Mild Request for Guest Posters.
(Deadline to submit a paper to CCC is Dec 15. Depending on when you read this that could be today or in the past.) As you all know from Lance's last post, Lance...
From Schneier on Security
The U.S. Civil Rights Movement as an Insurgency
This is interesting: Most Americans fail to appreciate that the Civil Rights movement was about the overthrow of an entrenched political order in each of the Southern...
From Wild WebMink
? Discrimination?
Tesco apologises over 'ginger jibe' Christmas card I can't help thinking that we're over-keen to identify minorities and caterdiscrimination...
From The Noisy Channel
LinkedIn Faceted Search Now Out Of Beta
LinkedIn started rolling out a beta version of faceted people search back in July. Now it’s officially out of beta, as announced on their blog. I’ve re-posted the...
From My Biased Coin
LiveBlogging NSDI PC Meeting
My post today is live-blogging the NSDI PC Meeting -- with a delay for security purposes, of course.My take on the reviews (and from past experience) is that the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AnalyticBridge Newsletter
Once again, let me pass along the current AnalyticBridge newsletter, a good, socially enabled site on predictive analytics methods, meetings and other topics by...
From Computational Complexity
CCC deadline Dec 15, 2009! (not factorial)
Submissions to 25th CCC are due TOMORROW! (Actually it could be TOMORROW, TODAY, or IN THE PAST depending on when you read this.) Should you submit? If you have...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Telecommuting Teams
I was an early user of telecommuting and helped manage teams that used these concepts from the beginning. It's still a contentious concept within the enterprise...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Computing Our Children's Future
Reposted from the Huffington Post To the age-old question -- "What do you want to do when you grow up?" -- children today give many modern answers: "Help feed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Package Goods Online Spend
Good AdAge piece on the increasing use of online marketing in packaged goods.
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Matters Now
In Seth Godin's blog: What Matters Now, links to a free ebook from a number of authors, just started to browse. Provocative and worth looking at, agreeing and disagreeing...
From Schneier on Security
U.S./Russia Cyber Arms Control Talks
Now this interesting: The United States has begun talks with Russia and a United Nations arms control committee about strengthening Internet security and limiting...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-12-14
Body clock link to heart disease Another vote against being a frequent traveller. (tags: Health Heart Travel BBC...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Is Knowledge and Analysis Overrated?
From the Harvard Business Org Blogs. by ' ... Jeffrey M. Stibel is an entrepreneur, a brain scientist, and the author of Wired for Thought: How the Brain Is Shaping...
From Putting People First
Anthropology Matters
The latest issue of Anthropology Matters contains an interesting article on the use of mobile phones in Africa: Being cool or being good: researching mobile phones...
From The Eponymous Pickle