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Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration
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I experienced the Gmail outage here in NYC yesterday. I agree with several pundits that there was no easy way to tell what was going on. Had to go to a number of...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | September 2, 2009 at 09:27 AM
Paula Wallace, president of the Savannah College of Art and Design, interviews Peter Fossick, who is the coordinator of a new program in service design at the college...Experientia From Putting People First | September 2, 2009 at 05:46 AM
What happens when a large % of your target market wants your brand cachet but is happy with a decent-enough quality fake? NokiaExperientia From Putting People First | September 2, 2009 at 05:32 AM
Via Dina Mehta, founder and managing director of Mosoci India, I found out about Progress, a highly interesting new website set up by Nokia and Lonely Planet:
“The...Experientia From Putting People First | September 2, 2009 at 05:22 AM
Wal-Mart appears to be expanding and changing their e-commerce operational presence: E-Commerce says: ' ... Wal-Mart is taking a page from Amazon's playbook, partnering...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | September 1, 2009 at 08:58 PM
I spend much of my time thinking about reforming computer science education in Los Angeles. My goal is to make computer science courses accessible and engaging... From Computer Science Teachers Association | September 1, 2009 at 06:25 PM
Interesting:
So how many bits are in this instance of H1N1? The raw number of bits, by my count, is 26,022; the actual number of coding bits approximately 25,054...schneier From Schneier on Security | September 1, 2009 at 06:13 PM
The Association for Computing Machinery recently submitted comments (PDF) on the Race to the Top Fund, an Education Department program set up to address some of... From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM | September 1, 2009 at 02:06 PM
Interview with Noel Sharkey. The robotics expert, formerly a player in artificial intelligence, suggests that AI is a dangerous dream. I don't think it is a dream...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | September 1, 2009 at 11:53 AM
Today the proceedings of the 14th ACM SIGPLAN international conference on functional programming (ICFP) have been uploaded to the ACM digital library. Next to the...Tobias Svensson From Return 42; | September 1, 2009 at 11:23 AM
Fascinating story of a 16-year-old blind phone phreaker.
One afternoon, not long after Proulx was swatted, Weigman came home to find his mother talking to what...schneier From Schneier on Security | September 1, 2009 at 11:23 AM
At some point, I spent some time at ITA Software, a company I like for many reasons. (First, I like their flight fare-finding and selection interfaces -- which...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | September 1, 2009 at 11:06 AM
PLoS One is a new peer-reviewed journal (2006) with many interesting features:
The board includes many respected Computer Scientists: Ananth Grama, Johan Bollen... From Daniel Lemire's Blog | September 1, 2009 at 09:28 AM
Paul Graham gives a list of attributes characterizing start-ups. It strikes me that many of these attributes could describe research projects as well:
Good research... From Daniel Lemire's Blog | August 31, 2009 at 11:31 PM
Wikileaks says that Google is turning over information about the IP addresses of some of its users. The article says: ' ... Google has elected to keep extensive...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | August 31, 2009 at 09:33 PM
While I was doing some research for myself about the evolution of the different families of functional programming languages, I came across an interesting ACM Computing...Tobias Svensson From Return 42; | August 31, 2009 at 08:20 PM
Foreigners Attending US Grad Schools Way Down: Wake Up, Xenophobes
Seems obvious to me that the US was built on the entrepreneurship of immigrants...webmink From Wild WebMink | August 31, 2009 at 01:53 PM
If has been suggested that newspapers will survive by gathering and organizing local news and markets. I still get my local newspaper. Applications like FWix on...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | August 31, 2009 at 01:53 PM
One of our design principles for blogs.sun.com over the years has been to allow everything and let good sense and existing rules prevent mishaps - at least until...webmink From Wild WebMink | August 31, 2009 at 01:52 PM