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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
Interactive Table for Environment Center
John Curran, long-time correspondent, has sent along pictures of some excellent work that his company MCosm did at the Dupont Environmental Education Center, which...
From Computational Complexity
Need a Roomate for a Conference?
(Guest Post by Dave Doty pointing to a blog by ***SORELLE*** which points to a roomate finding service for conferences.) Sorelle has announced a new roommate...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
ISMAR09: Workshop on Handheld Augmented Reality Games
This was a great workshop given by Blair MacIntyre from Georgia Tech on mobile augmented reality games. I got a lot out of it, from being reminded of some solid...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More of Web Searchable
In an ongoing progression, more of the web has become searchable. Google has announced that Twitter updates will soon be added to search results. How will theya...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Congress Declares Computer Science Week!
Computer science education reform is going to come in fits and starts working on issues from the top down (national media, federal policy, etc.) and the bottomComputer...
From Schneier on Security
James Bamford on the NSA
James Bamford -- author of The Shadow Factory: The NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America writes about the NSA's new data center in Utah as he reviews another...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ontologies Explained
Ontology is one of those words that you do not hear in common parlance. As a result it often gets a blank stare if you dare to use it in management meetings. Ihas...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Open Access is the Short-Sighted Fight
My colleague Stevan Harnad thinks it is silly to boycott for-profit journals. My ex-colleague Stephen Downes admits to being a boycotter, but he claims not to be...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-10-22
Groklaw - Reasons I Believe the Community Should Support the Oracle-Sun Deal Another unexpected position that is wellworth reading and which I'm...
From Putting People First
The mad dash toward touch technology
True innovators need to know as much about when, why, and how not to use trendy technology as when to use it, says Microsoft Research principal scientist Bill Buxton...
From Putting People First
Human behavior: the key to future tech developments
As trained observers of how people in a society live, ethnographers can help companies figure out what people need and then work with designers to meet those needs...
From Putting People First
On security, programming, privacy, and
Three articles in the latest issue of Communications of the ACM are quite relevant for the readers of this blog: Usable security: how to get it Why does your computer...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
A Week For Computer Science Education
Computer science education reform is going to come in fits and starts working on issues from the top down (national media, federal policy, etc.) and the bottom...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wowd: Peer to Peer Popularity search
In the spirit of Web Squared, Wowd is a search engine that seeks to get 'fresh real-time results'. See also their blog. Heard it described at the Web 2.0 Summit...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Web 2.0 Summit
The Web TV Summit is underway and its live video stream can be accessed here. Interesting speakers on the topic, including Berners-Lee. I believe it will be archived...
From The Eponymous Pickle
GPS Shoes
I remember the idea being pushed back in 2007. A set of GPS enabled shoes.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovation in Consumer Goods
Good short piece in ConsumerGoods:Clorox, GSK and More Share Innovation TacticsIn the current economic climate, innovation is power. Top consumer goods executives...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
ISMAR09: Experiential Learning 2 of 3 - Current Applications 2
This is the second of three posts on the experiential learning workshop held Monday at ISMAR09. The first post introduced the topic and summarized the first three...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
ISMAR09: Experiential Learning 3 of 3 - Group Discussion
This is the last of three posts on the ISMAR09 experiential learning workshop. Post one and post two covered the morning presentations on current applications,...
From Schneier on Security