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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
Smartbooks vs Notebooks
Why carry yet another unitasking device? What ultimately is the difference? Good piece on this. I would personally like it all on a smartphone device, though the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Evolution of Pepsi vs Coke Logos
Brought to my attention recently the relative evolution of Pepsi vs Coke Logos. It was later pointed out to be that this is somewhat selectively inaccurate, yet...
From Computational Complexity
An Undervalued Math Problem
As most of you know there are 7 problems worth $1,000,000 (see here). It may be just 6 since Poincare's conjecture has probably been solved. Why are these problems...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Lessons Learned for Science Outreach
I went to my old high school last week to do some outreach for Let's Talk Science. The teacher we're partnered with requested a grade ten physics activity on optics...
From Schneier on Security
Al Qaeda Secret Code Broken
I would sure like to know more about this: Top code-breakers at the Government Communications Headquarters in the United Kingdom have succeeded in breaking the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lining Up
A just discovered blog that covers aspects of queueing theory, both the idealized mathematical aspects and the psychological issues to discover how people relate...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented Reality, Head-To-Head
In the blog Augmented Planet a head-to-head comparison of a number of augmented reality browsers for the purpose of finding a restaurant and finding sites in London...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Things that Mobile Phones will Obsolete
In Recombu: Ten Things that Mobile Phones Will Make Obsolete. I am sure we can expect others. The laptop? -
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovation Science Parks
Good piece in BusinessWeek on the building of innovation parks in cities. Contrary to the idea of having virtual companies powered by interconnectivity, which have...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Steve King SNCR Fellow of the Year
I see that compatriot Steve King has been named SNCR Fellow of the Year. He is a great guy, runs an excellent consultancy and blog on innovation and the issues....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reading Barcodes
Short Wired article on reading barcodes without a device, in other words with just your eyes. Cute parlor trick, but of course barcodes usually contain the code...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-11-21
EU delays Sun/Oracle decision Until the end of January instead of the middle. At this point it's all just more blows to a bruised body. (tags...
From The Noisy Channel
Can We Learn From Anti-Social Users?
One of the interesting challenges we face as both developers and consumers of search technology is that social signals are a double-edged sword. On one hand, social...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
National Computer Science Education Week
Congress has resolved that the week of December 7 will be designated as “National Computer Science Education Week.”
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intel Says Brain Will Control Computers
Intel: Chips in brains will control computers by 2020Brain waves will replace keyboard and mouse, dial phones and change TV channels ...'-
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: New Squid Discovered
An expedition to study seamounts in the Indian Ocean has discovered some new species, including some squid.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sparklines in Excel
Sparklines (above) are a simple means of including quantitative visuals in lines of text, conceived of by Edward Tufte. Three has been recently much ado about Microsoft...
From CERIAS Blog
Firefox Vulnerabilities: Souvenirs of Windows 95
I've been waiting for an announcement of vulnerabilities in Firefox due to popular extensions. I've compared it to Windows 95 before. Yet students often opine...
From The Eponymous Pickle