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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 Pushes 2D Barcodes
From Storefrontbacktalk: ' ... This week, Google said it was trying to breathe life into these barcodes by mailing 200,000 2D barcode stickers to small businesses...
From Schneier on Security
Australia Restores Some Sanity to Airport Screening
Welcome news: Carry-on baggage rules will be relaxed under a shake-up of aviation security announced by the Federal Government today. The changes will see passengers...
From Putting People First
The challenge of co-production
A new discussion paper by NESTA, the UK’s National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, argues that the key to reforming public services is to encourage...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kroger Links Loyalty to Wireless Minutes
Retailers are starting to do more clever things with loyalty programs: ' ... The Kroger Co. is rolling out what it says is a first-of-its-kind loyalty program that...
From Schneier on Security
The Politics of Power in Cyberspace
Thoughful blog post by The Atlantic's Marc Ainbinder: We allow Google, Amazon.com, credit companies and all manner of private corporations to collect intimateMy...
From Computational Complexity
A hard problem inspired by an easy problem
The following problem was problem 1 (the easy one) on the Maryland Math Competition 2009 (I will later report on how the students did on it). Show that for every...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Entropy-efficient Computing
Microprocessors and storage devices are subject to the second law of thermodynamics: using them turn usable energy (oil, hydrogen) into unusable energy (heat).
From Wild WebMink
? Settled but not cured
Q&A: Microsoft's top lawyer on European case, future of antitrust Well worth reading to understand Microsoft's world-view. Sadly...
From Putting People First
Mag+, a concept video on the future of digital magazines
Bonnier R&D, the research unit of Bonnier, the publisher of Popular Science, invited the designers from BERG London on a corporate collaborative research project...
From Putting People First
Ubiquitous computing bridges devices and services
Mike Kuniavsky of ThingM was a speaker at XD Forum, Intuit’s internal user experience design conference, last week. His half-hour talk focused on the relationship...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New at Junaio
I recently mentioned Junaio and its IPhone App. A good example of the current state of 'augmented reality', as the term suggests its a means of adding useful information...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ray Kurzweil's Future
Ray Kurzweil, noted technologist and futurist, predicts how technology will change us by 2020.-
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Programming Challenge 4 Girls (PC4G) Event in New Zealand
In November this year, a series of challenges using Alice was held at 4 venues around New Zealand. The events were staggered as the days were planned so that a...
From My Biased Coin
Avoiding Travel
I'm spending the morning as part of the committee for a thesis defense over in Europe. I'm watching the talk over Skype; we're using a conference call for sound...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Coupon Chief
I recently got a note from Couponchief.com, which lets you search for coupons for online purchase. They write: ' ... Coupon Chief is one of the fastest growing....
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Technical Guidelines Development Committee Meets After Two Year Hiatus
The Technical Guidelines Development Committee (TGDC), responsible to the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) for the drafting guidance for voting system standards...
From Computational Complexity
Guest Post- Women in Theory Workshop
(Tal Rabin requested to post this so I am doing so. This post is essentially her email, so call it a guest post.) There will be a Women In Theory workshop for...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Strategies for Lighting the Fire for Learning
On December 4, I attended a public presentation that was put on for the Seminar in University Teaching, a graduate course at Carleton. Popular psychology professor...
From Schneier on Security