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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 Schneier on Security
DDNI for Collection Press Conference
The U.S. Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Collection gives a press conference on the new Utah data collection facility: video and transcript.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Forrester Groundswell Awards
Josh Bernoff provides an overview of the recent Forrester Groundswell Awards: Why Anyone Can Create a Successful Social Application. Case studies like these are...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Analytics Updates
A number of useful updates in Google Analytics. I am reviewing.-
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simulation Software Survey
OR/MS Today has published its yearly Simulation software survey. Always surprised that people who want to create useful virtual analyses don't know about this analytical...
From The Noisy Channel
Tuning in to Google Music Search
With all of the activity around e-books last week, you might think that the online world wasn’t paying attention to the media category most transformed by the Internet...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brand Marketing Makeover
From Paul Gillin: Brand Marketing Due for a Makeover.' ..."Adaptive Brand marketing starts with the environment -- customers and a deep understanding of their needs...
From Putting People First
Migropolis: Venice /Atlas of a Global Situation
In winter 2006, under the aegis of philosopher Wolfgang Scheppe, a collective of students from theIUAV University in Venice (including Experientia collaborator...
From Putting People First
Computerworld New Zealand on user-centred web design
Computerworld New Zealand introduces user-centred web design. Introducing user-centred web design The first article in this series introduces the idea of User-Centred...
From Computational Complexity
Proud to be a Monomath
A girl told her father that history was much easier when he was in school. "Why?" he asked. She responded "Because there was so much less of it." An old joke, but...
From Schneier on Security
A Critical Essay on the TSA
A critical essay on the TSA from a former assistant police chief: This is where I find myself now obsessing over TSA policy, or its apparent lack. Every one of...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-10-29
Many open-sourcers back an Oracle takeover of MySQL Indeed, my experience of late is that there are very few voices without a vested interest who...
From My Biased Coin
Ranking Networking Conferences
I'm curious if various readers out there would be willing to offer their ranking of networking conferences. The issue has come up in some conversations recently...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
My Voice
I look forward to it every couple of months. I've been receiving the CSTA Voice since I became a member back in 2005. For years, being a member of CSTA meant getting...
From Schneier on Security
Best Buy Sells Surveillance Tracker
Only $99.99: Keep tabs on your child at all times with this small but sophisticated device that combines GPS and cellular technology to provide you with real-time...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter and Social Media
A good case study about P&G using Facebook to market Crest Whitestrips. '... the contest on Facebook asks participants to submit stories about connections they...
From Computational Complexity
FOCS Last Day
Last (but surely not least) day at FOCS 09!Jan Vondrak talked about some nice results that unify previous query complexity approaches in proving lower bounds for...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The Secret Behind Radical Innovation
Our global knowledge grows in slow, incremental steps. Darwin and Einstein mostly reinterpreted existing ideas. However, practical implementations sometimes take...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Irony Universal in Communication
A piece in Language Log talks about the universality of irony in communication. Also links to a number of other discussions previously held on the topic. One way...
From Schneier on Security
Psychology and Security Resource Page
Ross Anderson has put together a great resource page on security and psychology: At a deeper level, the psychology of security touches on fundamental scientific...
From Wild WebMink