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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 Apophenia
Choosing the Right Grad School
Lately, I've been getting all sorts of emails from folks applying to grad school who are seeking advice. I noticed that I was starting to say the same thing over...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What is Social Search? Zakta Answers
Recently I took a first look at Zakta, a novel form of search engine that includes the ability to work socially with your searches, edit them, manipulate and use...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shneiderman on Future of Information Discovery
Here are Ben Shneiderman's slides from his keynote at the 2009 HCIR conference, posted by Daniel Tunkelang, worth a look.-
From The Eponymous Pickle
Compete
A colleague pointed me to compete.com from TNS, which acquired them last year. With a trial version of the package you can compare traffic at major web sites. Also...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Why Words Matter: Technology is not the same as Computing
Robb Cutler, CSTA Past President
From The Eponymous Pickle
Synchronized Blinking with Video
In Lucid Thoughts Steve Genco looks at the process of blinking based on some recent research which ' ... presents some really intriguing findings about when and...
From Putting People First
A reflection on energy efficiency and behaviour
Irene Cassarino, an Experientia collaborator, reports on the First European Conference on Energy Efficiency and Behaviour, which took place in Maastricht last week...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Search from Google
I joined the Google Social Search experiment. When you join it, any time you do a search in Google it adds information and results from your social network. It...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of October 26
October 27 Hearing: The Technology and Innovation Subcommittee of the House Science and Technology Committee will hold a hearing on Department of Homeland Security...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of October 26
October 27 Hearing: The Technology and Innovation Subcommittee of the House Science and Technology Committee will hold a hearing on Department of Homeland Security...
From Schneier on Security
2006 Wal-Mart Hack
Interesting story of a 2006 Wal-Mart hack from, probably, Minsk.
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-10-27
Introducing Amazon RDS - The Amazon Relational Database Service That's MySQL in the cloud as a web service. This is exactly the...
From Putting People First
Arianna Huffington and Peter Thiel on the digital revolution
And still two more video rushes on the site of Digital Revolution. Arianna Huffington interview – USA Arianna Huffington is the co-founder of the influential news...
From Putting People First
Tim Berners-Lee and Einar Kvaran on the digital revolution
More video rushes on the site of Digital Revolution (working title), an open source documentary, due for transmission on BBC Two in 2010, that will take stock of...
From Return 42;
The Other Side of the Table: David Heinemeier Hansson
It has been a while since the last post of this blog series. Though, it is not over and today's post will definitely not be the last one. Previous participantsDavid...
From Computational Complexity
FOCS Day 2
After an early morning injection of much needed caffeine, Team Northwestern was ready for the next round of talks. Today's program consisted of talks more related...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Become Independent of Peer Review
When I asked the director of a large—and successful—British software house his most serious problem, he said without hesitation “how to prevent clusters of incompetence...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Flocking Methods for Clustering
For a proposed project I am examining flocking methods to build spatial clusters. Flocking/Herding is the regularly observable activity of animals like birds gathering...
From Putting People First