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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 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
Ballmer Blames the Failure of Windows Vista on Security
According to the Telegraph: Mr Ballmer said: "We got some uneven reception when [Vista] first launched in large part because we made some design decisions to improve...
From Computational Complexity
The Humbling Power of P v NP
[Note from Bill: He now has an on-line list of papers who still need reviewers] Noam Nisan, back in grad school in the 80's made the following suggestion...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dashboard Design
Reading Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data. by Stephen Few. Very good. See also his blog: Visual Intelligence.
From Schneier on Security
Australia Man Receives Reduced Sentence Due to Encryption
From the Courier-Mail: A man who established a sophisticated network of peepholes and cameras to spy on his flatmates has escaped a jail sentence after police...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Second Life For the Enterprise?
I abandoned SL about a year ago after over a year of exploration. Is it now crowded and profitable? People spending 100 minutes of time there per visit on average...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Managing Shopper Lists - Store Contexts
One of my particular interests, starting at enterprise innovation locations, was to experiment with how a shopper could engage with retail locations in a seamless...
From Wild WebMink
? A Remarkable Reversal
It was a surprise to see Richard Stallman's signature on a letter to the European Commission calling on them to block the acquisition of MySQL by Oracle with its...
From The Eponymous Pickle
WolframAlpha has an App
WolframAlpha, the computational knowledge engine, has an application for the IPhone. What has received much of the early publicity is that it is expensive in the...
From Putting People First
Clay Shirky and Stephen Fry on the digital revolution
The people behind Digital Revolution (working title), an open source documentary, due for transmission on BBC Two in 2010, that will take stock of 20 years of change...
From Putting People First
Trust in digital life
Denise Deveau, technology writer at The Globe and Mail speaks with Kim Cameron, Microsoft’s identity guru, about what it will take for consumers and businesses...
From The Noisy Channel
Books! Books! Books!
When my daughter was born almost two years ago, I wondered if she’d grow up reading books. After all, I do most of my reading online, and increasingly find myself...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Learning with Serious Games
I have long been interested in using games for serious learning. Doesn't it make great sense to use the fun, competition and often addictive nature of the gamereviewed...
From Computational Complexity
An Unintentional Sociology of Blogs Experiment
Yesterday I posted a list of books that I want reviews of as SIGACT NEWS Book Review Column Editor. This resulted in an unintentional study of Sociology and Blogs...
From Schneier on Security
TSA Successfully Defends Itself
Story here. Basically, a woman posts a horrible story of how she was mistreated by the TSA, and the TSA responds by releasing the video showing that she was lying...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-10-20
Letter to the EC opposing Oracle's acquisition of MySQL Fascinating to see Stallman admit that the GPL does not guarantee software...
From Schneier on Security
Computer Card Counter Detects Human Card Counters
All it takes is a computer that can track every card: The anti-card-counter system uses cameras to watch players and keep track of the actual "count" of the cards...
From My Biased Coin
Old References
One interesting aspect of our WSDM paper is that we have multiple references from the 1930's and 40's. It turns out our problem is related to some of the problems...
From Schneier on Security