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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 2009-09-04
EU fears Oracle will kill MySQL, but is that even possible? So many speculaitive stories out there, all full of half-correct opinions...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Revealing Slant in Mathematica
Jilyan Landon of Mathematica points me to a post in the Wolfram Blog. There something as mundane as an error message gives a hint to how well integrated Mathematica...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Advising Government on a New Key Piece of Legislation
In early August, the U.S. Department of Education released the proposed structure of the $4.5 billion Race to the Top Fund. In short, this fund will distribute...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Lecture on Human-Computer Interaction and Public Policy
Event Date: September 21, 2009 The Washington DC Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery, with support from the New America Foundation, will hold a...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Reaching Out and OutreachAmbassador: Mary Anne Egan, United States
There are several projects keeping me busy this year. First, the Student IMPACT alternative programming contest continues (www.cs.siena.edu/~maegan/impact). The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Internet at 40
I was pleased to have been involved in some of the early use of the Internet in the testing of remote Darpanet systems. It about to be 40 years old. CW makes some...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Changing your perspective: horizontal, vertical and hybrid data models
Data has natural layouts: text is written from the first to the last word, database tables are written one row at a time, Google presents results one document...
From Schneier on Security
Subpoenas as a Security Threat
Blog post from Ed Felten: Usually when the threat model mentions subpoenas, the bigger threats in reality come from malicious intruders or insiders. The biggest...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reboot Partners
Dean Debiase, formerly of TNS Media, has an interesting blog at Reboot Partners. ' ... which is a Strategic Execution and Market Expansion Advisory Group Helping...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cultivate Your Talkers
In Small Business Trends. ' ... People use social media for a lot of things. Personally, I use it to be as loud as I possibly can. I know that probably sounds bad...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Time For Another Paradigm Shift
Unstructured code (BASIC), structured code and procedural programming (Pascal), object-oriented code (C++ or Java). We've all been through one or more of theseComputational...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AnalyticsBridge
This newsletter and site were just brought to my attention. Created by Vincent Granville, his blog. Very good overview of predictive analytics, data mining, statistics...
From Schneier on Security
"The Cult of Schneier"
If there's actually a cult out there, I want to hear about it. In an essay by that name, John Viega writes about the dangers of relying on Applied Cryptography...
From Schneier on Security
Real-World Access Control
Access control is difficult in an organizational setting. On one hand, every employee needs enough access to do his job. On the other hand, every time you giverole...
From The Eponymous Pickle