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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
Wal-Mart E-Commerce Changes
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...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Assessing Impact in Computing Education
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 Schneier on Security
Hacking Swine Flu
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...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
ACM Comments on Reach for the Top Education Fund
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 The Eponymous Pickle
AI a Dangerous Dream?
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...
From Return 42;
ICFP 2009 and Functional Programming in the Real World
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...
From Schneier on Security
Matthew Weigman
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...
From My Biased Coin
ITA, Polaris
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...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Why I am not publishing in PLoS One, yet
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
Attributes of good research
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 The Eponymous Pickle
Google Turning Over IP Addresses
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...
From Return 42;
Conception, Evolution, and Application of Functional Programming Languages
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...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-08-31
Foreigners Attending US Grad Schools Way Down: Wake Up, Xenophobes Seems obvious to me that the US was built on the entrepreneurship of immigrants...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Feeding Local News
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...
From Wild WebMink
Mine, all mine (& theirs too)
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...
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...
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