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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 Schneier on Security
David Dittrich on Criminal Malware
Good essay: "Malware to crimeware: How far have they gone, and how do we catch up?" ;login:, August 2009: I have survived over a decade of advances in delivery...
From Computational Complexity
Dagstuhl Day One
The talks Monday were after my own heart. The day started with relativization: The always entertaining Scott Aaronson talked on his approach to get an oracle where...
From My Biased Coin
SOSP congratulations
One conference I've never had a paper in -- though I'd like to someday -- is SOSP, the Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, one of the flagship conferences...
From Putting People First
10/GUI, a new multitouch interface concept
MG Siegler writes on ReadWriteWeb about the fact that desktop touch screens don
From Putting People First
On the difference between personalisation and customisation
What’s the difference between personalization and customization? Are consumers really in control? Do brands (and designers) want them to be? Nick de la Mare of...
From Putting People First
Philips Design and ABN AMRO create emotion mirroring system for online traders
Philips Design and ABN AMRO
From Putting People First
TalkTalk launches Digital Anthropology Report
Yesterday TalkTalk, the UK broadband division of Carphone Warehouse, launched the Digital Anthropology Report
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Working With Industry Helps Researchers?
Is it a good idea for an academic researcher to work with industry R&D projects? Yes, in small doses: We find that university-industry relations exercise a positive...
From The Noisy Channel
Structured Search Is On The Table
Freebase. Wolfram Alpha. Google Squared. I hesitate to declare a trend, but there does seem to be a growing interest in more structured approaches to information...
From Return 42;
Testing for Superclass With Shoulda
While I was refactoring a hand full of commonly used methods from a few controllers into a superclass, I was looking for a way to test that these controllers are...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of October 12
October 13 Meeting: The Election Assistance Commission is holding a roundtable discussion on research on assistive voting technologies. 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Kellogg...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Public Domain E-Reads
There are now over 18,000 public domain (free) reads for the Kindle online. In addition Sony eBook readers can access Google's massive collection of scanned public...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Drawing Fewer Clicks
Short NYT piece on the Comscore study/ May mean we have to start looking at online very differently:'... A recent study, by the research firm comScore, has found...
From Schneier on Security
Wi-fi Blocking Paint
I wrote about this in 2004. This is an improved product: While paints blocking lower frequencies have been available for some time, Mr Ohkoshi's technology is...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
The Benefits of Using Paired Programming
Have you tried pair programming yet in your classroom? I started using it in my classroom five years ago and will never go back to the one computer per student...
From Computational Complexity
The Molly Solution
This week Bill and I are both at the Dagstuhl Workshop on Algebraic Methods in Computation Complexity. I'll try to cover some of the talks and discussions on the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Chart Understanding Versus Complexity
Continuing the topic of chart simplicity and understanding, Junk Charts looks at four charts of economic data and how they can be compared for impact and understanding...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-10-12
What Caused the Sidekick Fail? "Microsoft was upgrading their SAN (Storage Area Network aka the thing that stores all your data)...
From Putting People First