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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 Wild WebMink
Links for 2009-10-08
Outsourcing Is High Tech's Subprime-Mortgage Fiasco I sat this week listening to the new President of the BCS responding to several unemployedOutsourcing...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
A Report from the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
The ninth Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing took place in Tucson, Arizona from September 30-October 3.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter Joins Inno360
In Consumer Goods Technology: P&G has joined Inno360 to promote worldwide innovation.' ... to unite global pioneers to co-develop the next-generation open innovation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dow to Start Selling Solar Shingles
Have followed solar power ideas since the late 70s .... I remember this idea being posed back then. Now it has finally come to fruition. Launching in 2010. About...
From Schneier on Security
Hotel Safe Scam
This is interesting: Since then, his scams have tended to take place in luxury hotels around the world. Typically, he would arrive at a hotel, claim to be a guest...
From Schneier on Security
Detecting People Who Want to Do Harm
I'm dubious: At a demonstration of the technology this week, project manager Robert P. Burns said the idea is to track a set of involuntary physiological reactions...
From Computational Complexity
The last Universal Mathematician was ???
The book Prime Obsessions has the following on Page 159: You will see it written that Hadamard was the last of the universal mathematicians--- the last, that...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Sadker Awards for Teachers and Students
The Myra Sadker Foundation has established teacher and student awards to support the creation of teaching and learning materials that advance educational equity...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Marketing Maneuvers
In Forbes: Cheap Entrepreneurial marketing maneuvers for small business, including Twitter use.
From Schneier on Security
Computer-Assisted Witness Identification
Witnesses are much more accurate at identifying criminals when computers assist in the identification process, not police officers. A major cause of miscarriages...
From My Biased Coin
More Harvard Classes Available Online
Thanks to the Harvard Extension School, the lectures for several more Harvard courses have been put online. My understanding is that these are classes taught at...
From Wild WebMink
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FSF Files Amicus Brief in Bilski Another "friend of the court" filing in the US Supreme Court in the reconsideration of the case law that makes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Videos from the Singularity Summit
Have only looked at a few, but some interesting videos from the summit. Are you ready to be uploaded? The concept of a technological singularity continues to intrigue...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Getting a Ph.D. for the Money?
Many of my Ph.D. students have admitted to being motivated by financial gain. Stanford is famous for their graduate-students-turned-entrepreneurs. Sergey Brin and...
From The Noisy Channel
Google Meets The Press
I enjoyed my proverbial fifteen seconds of fame on CNN yesterday, and I even enjoyed lunch at the New York Times cafeteria today. But for a prime-time media show...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tesco in the US
Richard James sends along a link to a very detailed article about Tesco in the US: RETAIL CASE STUDY: ANATOMY OF A TESCO FRESH AND EASY NEIGHBORHOOD. Much written...
From Schneier on Security
Don't Let Hacker Inmates Reprogram Prison Computers
You'd think this would be obvious: Douglas Havard, 27, serving six years for stealing up to
From The Eponymous Pickle
IPhone App Interacts with SAS
Correspondent Sy Truong has just had an Iphone App called BI Flash approved. It allows you to deliver SAS reports and data to the IPhone, enter parameters, capture...
From Computational Complexity
You are coordially invited... Why?
When you get an invitation via email should you accept? How well targeted is it? Some real examples that I got. EXAMPLE ONE: I would like to invite you toclick...
From The Eponymous Pickle