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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 Noisy Channel
Finding, Locating, Discovering
Thanks to Tony Hollingsworth for alerting me to a post by Alex Campbell entitled "Stark realisation: I no longer depend on Google to find stuff." The title is provocative...
From Schneier on Security
On London's Surveillance Cameras
A recent report has concluded that the London's surveillance cameras have solved one crime per thousand cameras per year. David Davis MP, the former shadow home...
From The Eponymous Pickle
View Of German Processus Semantic Project
Mark Montgomery sends this along:" A video from ICE '08 on the German government/ SAP project that looks to be the closest competitor to Kyield I've seen to date...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
The Path to Forming CSTA of Ohio
Fellowship and community are the central foundations for the Computer Science Teachers Association of Ohio. The 2008-2009 academic year has been one of building...
From Return 42;
Communications of the ACM's Blogroll
"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice ..."Not too long ago, I wrote about my happiness about the new Communications of the ACM. I kindright...
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