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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 Putting People First
Myths and realities about women and mobile phones
Mobile phones have been a boon to developing countries and to social development. Access to mobiles may indeed allow for better medical information, change the...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Computers, Freedom and Privacy 2010 Conference
The Computers, Freedom and Privacy (CFP) Conference has just released its call for proposals for the 20th edition of the conference. It will take place June 15...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Experimenting With Mechanical Turk
A very good how-to article about the process of experimenting with Amazon's Mechanical Turk system. If you don't know about Mechanical Turk, it is one of the longest...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Remarkable Wind Story
Richard James sends this along: "...The extraordinary true story of a Malawian teenager who transformed his village by building electric windmills out of junk is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tesco's Wireless Item Finder
Storefrontbacktalk reports that Tesco has a system to let shoppers find items in its 3700 plus stores using their IPhones. But they are not providing local WiFi...
From Schneier on Security
The Commercial Speech Arms Race
A few years ago, a company began to sell a liquid with identification codes suspended in it. The idea was that you would paint it on your stuff as proof of ownership...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-10-16
ODF plugfest in Orvieto Another fine opportunity to get ODF interoperating as well as possible between different implementations...
From Computational Complexity
Typecasting Again
Lance: Welcome to our second typecast on the last full day of Dagstuhl. I may not see Bill for a while so we'd thought we'd get in one more chat before we go our...
From The Noisy Channel
Third Annual Workshop on Search in Social Media (SSM 2010)
I’m proud to announce that Eugene Agichtein, Marti Hearst, and Ian Soboroff have invited me to help organize the upcoming Workshop on Search in Social Media (SSM...
From My Biased Coin
Welcoming Myself to CACM
I'd like to welcome myself to the Blogroll for the Communications of the ACM! My colleague Greg Morrisett suggested I get my blog into the CACM Blogroll, so asome...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Responding to Social Media : Sidewiki
Google has recently added a toolbar capability called Sidewiki, which allows anyone to add comments, information or respond to any site. Previous attempts to do...
From The Eponymous Pickle
TDWI: Business Intelligence as a Service
I see that TDWI has added a number of new white papers, case studies and other resources on Business Intelligence as a service, have not begun to tap their sources...
From Computational Complexity
Thanks for the Fuzzy Memories
In the 1990's Manindra Agrawal and V. Arvind published a paper claiming that if SAT is reducible to a (non-uniform) weighted threshold function then P = NP. Their...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Average Consumer is Gone
From Jeff Mills, VP of Client Marketing and Client Management at Thinkvine. If the average consumer does not exist, and is continually evolving, we need solutions...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Linkedin APIs
I still recommend Linkedin first for people that are new to the use of social networking in business. Yet it is not open in the sense of being able to easily get...
From Schneier on Security
The Bizarre Consequences of "Zero Tolerance" Weapons Policies at Schools
Good article: Zachary's offense? [He's six years old.] Taking a camping utensil that can serve as a knife, fork and spoon to school. He was so excited about recently...
From Wild WebMink