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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
How to Win Academic Debates
In an academic unit, all professors hold a little bit of power. Yet, unfortunately, professors have nuanced positions. Just like in a democracy, you cannot get...
From My Biased Coin
WSDM Paper : Acceptance Rates
I'm happy to announce our paper "Adaptive Weighing Designs for Keyword Value Computation" -- by me, John Byers, and Georgios Zervas -- was accepted to WSDM 2010...
From The Noisy Channel
Who Will Buy?
Recent years have witnessed dramatic changes in our price sensitivities in every genre of digital (or digitizable) content, and I’m curious (sometimes morbidly...
From Putting People First
An Australian view on user-centred design
Damian Kernahan (featured earlier) just published his second article in Fast Thinking, an Australian innovation quarterly — this time on user-centred design. “Web...
From Apophenia
Teaching, Nursing, and Second-Wave Feminism
I am deeply grateful for all that was accomplished by second wave feminism. I love living in a world in which my job opportunities are not constrained because of...
From Schneier on Security
Helpful Hint for Fugitives: Don't Update Your Location on Facebook
"Fugitive caught after updating his status on Facebook." It's easy to say "so dumb," and it would be true, but what's interesting is how people just don't think...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of October 19
October 21 Hearing: The Elections Subcommittee of the Committee on House Administration will hold a hearing on modernization of election registration. 10 a.m.,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Comments
Comments here are moderated. I usually get to them very quickly, but depending on my schedule may take up to a day or two. Comments also need to be on relevant....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Investment in Suppy Chain Management
E-Commerce Times article. Suggests based on Gartner and other reports that investment has flatlined in SCM. Somewhat difficult to believe, given increasing cost...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Trouble in Social Networks
Brand damaging activities in social networks. An update in Computerworld with a number of useful examples.
From Putting People First
Technology is giving us the means to co-create the future
Author, speaker and technologist Juliette Powell sees the true significance of social media technology in the new kinds of collaborations we are able to forge that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Touchless 3D Fingerprinting
Can we replace an old system with a much faster and reliable one? Good overview, with a number of advantages over the old fingerprinting method. Some start upsFlashscan...
From My Biased Coin
Harvard Finances
For those who are interested in such things, Harvard's latest financial report appears to be available. Rumors have it that the report was made (widely) public...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IFoundry
About IFoundry:' ... The Illinois Foundry for Innovation in Engineering Education (iFoundry) is transforming engineering education for the 21st century. Specifically...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-10-18
Where The Crooks Are What Tim said. I still believe that blogging creates no risk for a company that does not already exist becuase...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Life Blogging Camera to be Produced
It was implied in a previous post that Microsoft did not intend to have the life blogging camera Sensecam produced. It was just reported that the camera will be...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Customer Centricity at Kraft
In Consumer Goods Technology:Kraft, Harvard Business School Talk Customer CentricityAlarice Padilla October 5, 2009 - In today's challenging economy with unprecedented...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Looking at the Programming Language Options
It is interesting to follow the debate among college CS educators over time. At one point in the distant past, there was a large camp of CS teachers pushing for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Selling Online Books
Forthcoming: Google Editions. Now that Google has been given the open ability to scan books in the public domain, it is only natural that they are looking at ways...
From Wild WebMink