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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 Computational Complexity
A problem and later a story and a point.
I have (1) a math problem to tell you about (though I suspect many readers already know it), (2) a story about it, and (3) a point to make. TODAY I'll just do the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Customers Provide Marketing Value
I always thought this approach was obvious, but it is nice to have it restated here. Get your best marketing materials directly from your customers. Now there...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predicting Earthquakes with Smartphones
An interesting example of using a network of smartphones as sensors, and converting that data into a form that can detect earthquakes and then communicate them"...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Expeditions in Computing PI Meeting Synopsis
The following is a special contribution to this blog from our Vice Chair Gregory Hager (Johns Hopkins University). In the following entry Greg reflects on the first...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stanford's Startup Garage
An Overview of Stanford's Startup Garage Course. From the perspective of innovation vs Invention. Have heard of this course, but this is the first detailed view...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Boosting in-store Sales
In Journal Gazette: On boosting in-store sales:" More food retailers are getting in on the technology game, offering multiple options to boost convenience and compete...
From Schneier on Security
Walls Around Nations
A political history of walls: Roman walls such as Hadrian's Wall, the Great Wall of China, the Berlin Wall, and the wall between Mexico and the U.S. Moral: they...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Web Based Brain for Robots
In the BBC: A little tongue in cheek, but I agree with the long range premise. That the Web has become a sort of brain with memory and store of expertise. And...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Accessible Technology Demos at the FCC on July 16
Tomorrow, the FCC will feature demonstrations of accessible technology solutions from 12:30 to 3 p.m. in its Technology Experience Center. The event is part of...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 15 July 2013
Today is the first day of the CSTA Annual conference. Ten workshops today and later a tour of Microsoft’s New England Research and Development Center (Yeah I’ve...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Do Things that Don't Scale
Via Paul Graham. As a person who has always been warned up front to always worry about how things scale in practice, I like the brashness of this suggestion. Includes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
An Optical Stethoscope
An idea I remember hearing about a decade ago. Besides the direct visualization of the data, the ability to transmit that data would be useful. Consider then...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What Is It With US Students and Programming Contests?
I saw this recently on SlashDot - No US College In Top 10 For ACM International Programming Contest 2013 Now the ACM International Programming Contest is sort of...
From My Biased Coin
Sleeping in Seattle
Unless I'm asked not to, I'll try to live-blog a bit over the next few days from the Microsoft Faculty Summit. It's my first time to this event. I understand...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More on Engelbart
A good overview by Jason Hong, of some of the accomplishments of Douglas Engelbart, whose passing and personal interconnections I mentioned last week.
From Putting People First
Why behavior change apps fail to change behavior
“Too many well-intentioned products fail because they feel like ‘haftas,’ things people are obligated to do, as opposed to things they ‘wanna’ do,” writes Nir Eyal...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gesture Control
Using a Wifi doppler shift to do gesture control. In Hackaday. Not sure how practical this is, but an interesting play. Includes a demonstration video.
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Surely You Are Joking?
A new way to write mathematics Vladimir Voevodsky won the Fields Medal in 2002 for his work on homotopy theory of algebraic varieties. Using his pioneering methods...
From Schneier on Security
My Fellowship at the Berkman Center
I have been awarded a fellowship at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, for the 2013–2014 academic year. I'm excited about this;...
From The Eponymous Pickle