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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 2009-09-18
The Search "The world's first ant colony to achieve sentience calls off the search for us." (tagsxkcd comic Astronomy...
From Schneier on Security
Modifying the Color-Coded Threat Alert System
I wrote about the DHS's color-coded threat alert system in 2003, in Beyond Fear: The color-coded threat alerts issued by the Department of Homeland Security are...
From My Biased Coin
FOCS Early Registration (A Tale of 3 Web Sites)
I was asked by the powers that be to remind everyone of the early registration deadline for FOCS 2009, which is October 1. Registration and hotel information can...
From Putting People First
Worldchanging interview: Vinay Venkatraman on interaction design
Vinay Venkatraman, an interaction designer, is one of a rapidly expanding group of scholars and professionals around the world working to define the way our stuff...
From Putting People First
The use of mobile phones in education in developing countries
The World Bank is embarking on a new study investigating issues related to the use of mobile phones in education in developing countries. “The study is intended...
From Putting People First
Peer pressure and other pitches
Michael Sanserino reports in the Wall Street Journal on the latest applications of insights in behavioural economics: “More businesses are using behavioral economics...
From Putting People First
New EU discussion paper and consultation: Fostering user-driven innovation through clusters
“Involving users in the innovation process seems to be increasingly recognised as an important challenge not only for enterprises, but also for innovation support...
From Putting People First
Success stories in design management
An article published by the European Commission’s Enterprise & Industry department: “Design management is a key driver of innovation and competitiveness and the...
From CERIAS Blog
Odds & Ends
Cyber Leap Year Summit I've heard from many, many people who read my blog post about this. So far, everyone who attended and was not involved with the planningHere...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Store Simulation and Category Placement
I met today with Herb Sorensen and Bill Hruby to see TNS's just released Atlas Store Datamining Tool. An impressive piece of work that takes insights from HerbInside...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Equity in the Light of Fairness
Let me start by saying I am new to this board of directors and I do not really have a good feel for what YOU want to hear or read about just yet
From Computational Complexity
Possibly Recruits for the Polymath Primes Project
In the book The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat and other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks there is a true story about two twin brothers (John and Michael), both...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Policy Highlights from Communications of the ACM - September 2009 (Vol. 52, No. 9)
Below is a list of items with policy relevance from the September issue of Communications of the ACM. As always, much of the material in CACM is premium content...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tagging Visualizations Over Time
A bit dated, but research at Yahoo about image tag usage over time. Here is the full technical paper. Not sure if this has gone anywhere, if anyone knows do let...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rethinking the Long Tail
In Knowledge@Wharton: Re-thinking the long tail. ' ... a new research paper by Wharton professor Serguei Netessine and doctoral student Tom F. Tan challenges that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
E-Mail Cautionary Tale
In Slashdot a cautionary tale about how easy, cheap and relatively risk free it is to have third parties hack a public e-mail account. Have been involved in cases...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Relational databases: are they obselete?
Michael Stonebraker is predicting that the dominance of the generic relational database is coming to an end. Having recently founded several database companies,
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visualizing Global Brand Data
A very interesting visualization of global brand data, a mix of geographic, network and more typical business intelligence graphics. Probably not the simplest way...
From Computational Complexity