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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 Daniel Lemire's Blog
Run-length encoding (part 2)
(This is a follow-up to my previous blog post.) Any run-length encoding requires you to store the number of repetitions. In my example, AAABBBBBZWWK becomes 3A-5B...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Signatures of Consciousness
In the Edge: Signatures of Consciousness. Very interesting progress: Stanislas Dehaene writes:' ... For the past twelve years my research team has been using...
From Schneier on Security
Fear and Public Perception
This 1996 interview with psychiatrist Robert DuPont was part of a Frontline program called "Nuclear Reaction." He's talking about the role fear plays in the perception...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Teaching Computer Science Concepts
I developed the below material for a workshop I gave to computer science teaching assistants today on how to teach computer science concepts. The workshop washttp...
From Wild WebMink
? Protecting Rights
No, ACTA Secrecy Is Not 'Normal' -- Nor Is It A 'Distraction' ACTA secrecy is in fact a cynical game being played by the analogue...
From Putting People First
Nokia on life among the clouds
Nafid Imran Ahmed of the Bangladeshi newspaper The Daily Star was just at “The Way We Live Next 3.0″ event in Helsinki and reports on the company’s vision of the...
From Putting People First
Terry Winograd video interview
Terry Winograd, the famous human-computer interaction specialist, was interviewed for Digital Revolution (working title), an open source documentary, due for transmission...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Solicitation of Nominations for the Council of the Computing Community Consortium
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Analytics Illegal?
Google Analytics illegal, say German personal data protection analysts.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Plant Social Life
This is not in the normal realm of what I write about, but I am an amateur botanist and all things botanic do interest me. It is also an interesting lesson in experimentation...
From Putting People First
Beyond the experience: In search of an operative paradigm for the industrialisation of services
Nicola Morelli (blog), an associate professor at the School of Architecture and Design at Aalborg University in Denmark, reflects on the two inspirations for a...
From Schneier on Security
Leaked 9/11 Text Messages
Wikileaks has published pager intercepts from New York on 9/11: WikiLeaks released half a million US national text pager intercepts. The intercepts cover a 24nuggets...
From Return 42;
The other side of the table: Limsoon Wong
Professor and Head of Computer Science of the School of Computing at the National University of Singapore. Before that, he was the Deputy Executive Director for...
From CERIAS Blog
"Verified by VISA": Still Using SSNs Online, Dropped by PEFCU
I have written before about the "Verified by VISA" program. While shopping for Thanksgiving online this year, I noticed that Verified by Visa scripts were blocked...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Happy Holidays
The end of the year brings upon us the celebrations that come with the holidays. This year, we have extra reason to celebrate with an added holiday. The week of...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
PASS ID Moves Forward in Congress
PASS ID, S. 1261, is a bill introduced in June as an attempt to break through the impasse over REAL ID. That law, passed as part of a budget bill in 2005, was...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Acquisitions as Retail Geography
A BNet article that looks at P&G past acquisitions, and speculates about future M&A in terms of retail space coverage. I like the idea of understanding products...
From Schneier on Security