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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
Cellphone Coupons
NYTimes on mobile coupons. They are a behind in knowing this idea exists. Yet reasonably good overview.
From Putting People First
The good enough revolution: when cheap and simple is just fine
For years, the experience design community has been using the term ‘good enough prototyping’. Wired UK argues quite convincingly that this approach is now moving...
From Putting People First
Using Nokia Life Tools in India to learn English
Dina Mehta, founder and managing director of Mosoci India, reports on how Nokia Life Tools actually gets used in India, and more in particular, how the how the...
From CERIAS Blog
Still no sign of land
I am a big fan of the Monty Python troupe. Their silly take on several topics helped point out the absurd and pompous, and still do, but sometimes were simply lunatic...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Two Nostrils: Sensing and Competing
It is fairly obvious why we have two eyes and two ears. We use a form of triangulation to determine direction and distance. Models in the brain fit the data and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Four Technologies that are Reshaping BI
From Computerworld: 4 Technologies That Are Reshaping Business Intelligence: Next-generation BI is being formed by predictive analytics, real-time monitoring, in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Emergent Tech Ethics
A new blog I just discovered on the ethics of emergent technologies:The Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies was formed to study and debate vital questions...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Qualifications for Teaching AP CS
I got a panicked e-mail from a local school in August that they didn't have an Advanced Placement Computer Science A teacher for fall. They were planning to use...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Book Settlement
One of my favorite and long-time read blogs, the Language Log, has a good piece by Mark Liberman on the Google Book Settlement. There is an ongoing conference at...
From Schneier on Security
The Security Risks of Accepting Free Laptops
Weird: The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is trying to figure out who is sending laptop computers to state governors across the U.S., including West Virginia...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Media as Mass Marketing
Tom Peters posts on Social Media as Mass Marketing ... Not the Future. A critical and historical view of the topic.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Trading compression for speed with vectorization
Bitmap indexes are used by search engines (such as Apache Lucene), they are available in DBMSes such as Oracle and PostgreSQL. They are used in column stores such...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Location-Aware Home Screen on IPhone
It is reported in ReadwriteWeb that Apple is patenting the idea of a location-aware home screen for the IPhone. Imagine a home screen that would show a map, local...
From Apophenia
Vacation, Vacation, Vaaaay-kaaaay-shun! (offline till Sep 8)
This is the time when all of the crazy people run off to the desert to "survive" with tons of art, fake fur, and countless supplies. Burning Man of course. Normally...
From Schneier on Security
Marine Worms with Glowing Bombs
More security stories from the natural world: During chase scenes, movie protagonists often make their getaway by releasing some sort of decoy to cover their escape...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Landmark Contributions by Students in Computer Science
There are many reasons for research funding agencies (DARPA, NSF, etc.) to invest in the education of students. Producing the next generation of innovators is...
From Schneier on Security
Banning Beer Glasses in Pubs
Not beer, just the glasses: The Home Office has commissioned a new design, in an attempt to stop glasses being used as weapons. Official figures show 5,500 people...
From The Eponymous Pickle