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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 Eponymous Pickle
Buy and Sell Data
Infochimps is a site that says it will allow you to buy and sell data. A curious idea with some shaky potential issues. How will they be able to assure the validity...
From Putting People First
Deconstructing mobiles for development
Katrin Verclas of MobileActive is launching a new series on “deconstructing mobiles for development”. Mobile tech as a tool for social development is making the...
From Putting People First
Exploring little worlds with Nokia
The Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design is on a roll. After an intensive workshop with Intel (featured in Worldchanging), now they embarked on an exploration...
From Schneier on Security
Unauthentication
In computer security, a lot of effort is spent on the authentication problem. Whether it's passwords, secure tokens, secret questions, image mnemonics, or something...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Political Action in Kanasa
If you've read a recent piece I co-wrote in Communications of the ACM (membership required), you know that the States largely drive education decisions in the US...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Picturing an Uncertain World
In the midst of reading Howard Wainer's Picturing the Uncertain World. This Amazon link has a 'look inside'. Have read two of his recent books. See his site for...
From Computational Complexity
Debunking Proofs
One of the comments of the last post asked my (or someones) opinion on the proofs floating around that P=NP or P\ne NP. As a grad student I used to readWhat...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neuro Information Act
Neuro-information non-discrimination act signed. Consider the implications for biometric data gathering and use.
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of September 28
September 30 Hearing: The Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on cyberbullying and other safety...
From Schneier on Security
Ass Bomber
Nobody tell the TSA, but last month someone tried to assassinate a Saudi prince by exploding a bomb stuffed in his rectum. He pretended to be a repentant militant...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Two Billion IPhone Applications Sold
Apple reports 2 billion apps have been 'sold'. I have slowed down in purchases and am about to do a purge of applications I have not used for months. Still love...
From The Noisy Channel
Human-Computer Information Retrieval in Layman
One of the great benefits of practicing, as Daniel Lemire calls it, open scholarship is that I have many opportunities to see how ideas translate across the research...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Free from any Source
Finally getting to Free: Future of a Radical Price, by Chris Anderson. I did not get it during the free download period, but it was just as free from the library...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neurocinema
It is inevitable that neuromarketing methods be used to analyze high cost and leverage businesses. In the 90s we saw two applications of complexity modeling applied...
From Wild WebMink
Organic Software
This weekend we went to Winchester Farmers' Market. It was a beautiful day and the season is especially rich so there's a wonderful range of produce on offer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Web Squared A Tipping Point?
More in Forbes on Web Squared, by Tim O'Reilly and Jennifer Pahlka. It is about adding more of our increasing set of smart sensors to the web and then adding real...
From Wild WebMink
? Topical Music
Tina Dico Live in Mainz Tina has uploaded these four excellent videos of her performing in the open air in Mainz. She is sounding...
From The Noisy Channel
Information Retrievability
Last year, I wrote a post about Leif Azzopardi and Vishwa Vinay’s work on information accessibility: Instead of an actual physical space, in IR, we are predominately...
From The Eponymous Pickle