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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 My Biased Coin
Semantic Communication, Madhu Sudan
Madhu Sudan gave a colloquium at Harvard yesterday on his work on Universal Semantic Communication and Goal-Oriented Communication (both with Brendan Juba, thehere...
From Putting People First
Touchpoint Issue 2
The second issue of Touchpoint, the sdn’s Service Design Journal, is out. Entitled “Health and Service Design”, this brand-new issue features articles of Service...
From Apophenia
Informing Communities: Sustaining Democracy in the Digital Age
Over the last 18 months, I have had the great honor of serving as a Commissioner on the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities. Today, it gives...
From Wild WebMink
Truth In Labelling
When I wrote about Organic Software recently, I was largely eulogising the community dimension of open source software. But there's another way in which theThe...
From Schneier on Security
Proving a Computer Program's Correctness
This is interesting: Professor Gernot Heiser, the John Lions Chair in Computer Science in the School of Computer Science and Engineering and a senior principal...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Open Innovation
A guide to implementing open innovation. ' ... The report,
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
A Simplified Open Publishing Manifesto
Bill Gasarch is proposing a manifesto on Open Scholarship. What a great idea! Imagine thousands of researchers openly agreeing on practices making research more...
From Computational Complexity
The Journal Manifesto 2.0
Reminder: FOCS early registration deadline today. Go here Below is a revised version of the Journal Manifesto. I restate the key sentence from my last post and...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-10-01
Cottage sale omits nuclear view Calling certain software "open source" is like the people selling this fisherman's cottage calling...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cart Device at Bloom
Cart mounted shopping devices continue to be tested. Here again the Concierge device, previously reported on here, is in limited time test at Food Lion's Bloom'...
From My Biased Coin
GPU News
Since I've now co-authored a paper on GPUs, I'm now "in-the-loop" (thanks to my co-author John Owens) on the news of NVIDIA's announcement of its "next generation"...
From My Biased Coin
Justice!
Harvard is putting the lectures (and other materials) online for a fantastic course, Justice, taught by Michael Sandel. It's a class on moral reasoning, exactly...
From Schneier on Security
Nice Use of Diversion During a Robbery
During a daring bank robbery in Sweden that involved a helicopter, the criminals disabled a police helicopter by placing a package with the word "bomb" near the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
FaceCard Application
Facecard: A PayPal like third part Facebook application that allows the transferral of funds. Intrigued by its possible use for non-profit donation work. Does...
From Putting People First
The user experience of smart phones
Several articles on the smart phone user experience: Getting emotional about mobile phones A nationwide study of over 3000 people has found that there is a direct...
From Schneier on Security
Reproducing Keys from Photographs
Reproducing keys from distant and angled photographs: Abstract:The access control provided by a physical lock is based on the assumption that the information content...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Wave Threaten Social Networks?
Will Google Wave </">threaten Facebook and Twitter?-
From The Eponymous Pickle