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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 CERIAS Blog
Cyber security challenges and windmills
[Note: the following is primarily about U.S. Government policies, but I believe several points can be generalized to other countries.] I was editing a section of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
BusinessWeek on Business Intelligence
Fairly good piece on Business Intelligence, saying its time is now because it will be the method to get the kind of efficiency that will be required to survive...
From Wild WebMink
Twilight Zone Over
That's it - Europe is now messing with the clock too, so the usual northern hemisphere time-zone spacings are back in place and the Twilight Zone is ended. Now...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
A taxonomy of Computer Science researchers
As a kid, you are told that scientists follow the scientific method. They come up with a hypothesis, and they try to falsify it. You also learn about engineers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Improving your Linkedin Profile
Short CIO article on improving your Linkedin profile. Largely obvious, but a useful checklist, especially to those new to Linkedin.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Augmented Reality
Interesting piece I just got to on augmented reality work at Microsoft. Augmented reality has always been of interest to me as a way to overlay data in retail...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Internet Privacy Bill Possible in this Congress
The Bits blog at The New York Times recently ran an interview with Representative Rick Boucher (D-VA) the new Chair of the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Free Software and Copyright Law
Legal thoughts from a presentation by Richard Stallman. Once again the very odd implications of copyright law.
From Putting People First
Dimensions of compelling mobile experiences
Dave Zuvernik, senior user research specialist on Adobe XD
From The Eponymous Pickle
Haptic Jackets
Haptics are the study of using touch as input or output. Touch is a hard sense to deliver or detect precisely. Now the promise of a 'haptic jacket' which will...
From Wild WebMink
Forcing Dutch procurement to be transparent
You may remember last September I published an interview with crusading Dutch IT journalist Brenno de Winter. During our meeting, we discussed the sorry state of...
From Springenwerk Blog
WWDC 2009 - Got My Ticket
This year, Apple has waited excruciatingly long to announce the dates for their annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). Last year they announced the dates...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
My Day at the Library of Congress
A contribution from Susan Graham, the Pehong Chen Professor of Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley, and co-chair of the CCC Council: I
From insideHPC
LONI Gains 4.77 Tflops With
The Louisiana Optical Network Initiative [LONI], today announced that it has gained an additional 4.77 Tflop of computational capacity with its latest supercomputer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Click on Image
An interesting new startup that combines crowdsourcing with the ability to click on pictures within images to order products.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blog Typology Analysis
Archetype analyze a blog. This blog is classified as INTJ (Introversion, Intuitive, Thinking, Judgemental), not surprising, a classic Jungian-based Myers-Briggs...
From insideHPC
CERN and Argonne use science clouds for
Their phrase, not mine…here, I’ll prove it. From the release A novel system is enabling high energy physicists at CERN in Switzerland, to make production runs that...
From insideHPC
9 operating systems that time
Matt Lake, waxes nostalgic at Computerworld and remembers 10 operating systems from the halcyon days of yore (that’s right, I said “yore”). You’re not really supposed...
From insideHPC
IBM shifts 5,000 US jobs overseas
This is reported in several places, but I’ll link you to John Oates at The Register. According to the story IBM is cutting 5,000 jobs today, mostly in the US and...
From insideHPC