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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 My Biased Coin
Nice Work If You Can Get It.
Links regarding David Petraeus's offer from CUNY to teach a course for $200,000. (Or, maybe, now $150,000. Who knows.)Gawker has a lot of info. A letter from...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Approximating Boolean Functions
You can fool all the functions some of the time, and some of the functions all the time, but you cannot fool all the functions all the time, or even most of the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Where Does the Internet End and the Library Begin?
Interesting panel conversation. A question that continues to evolve with the introduction of mobile abilities. The panel talks about formal libraries. But I...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USPTO Invites Public Comments on Reducing Online IP Infringement
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) invites public input on the effectiveness of voluntary initiatives encouraged by the Obama Administration to reduce...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
FCC’s Speaker Series Will Feature Clayton Lewis on Inclusive Design Online
The FCC’s Accessibility and Innovation Initiative Speaker Series will feature USACM member and accessibility expert Clayton Lewis on “The Future of Inclusive Design...
From Schneier on Security
Security Analysis of Children
This is a really good paper describing the unique threat model of children in the home, and the sorts of security philosophies that are effective in dealing with...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Linkedin Celebrity Advice
AdAge discusses this, but I had noticed it for some time. LinkedIn's use of the advice from tycoons and other 'names' to increase advertising traffic and revenue...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Recycling Kiosks
Have been a long time examiner of the kiosk in retail. Have followed Coinstar (Now called Outerwall) and integrating the Redbox kiosks. Now the company has bought...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile and CPG Awareness
Brand awareness is the top mobile ad priority of CPGsConsumer-packaged goods brands are more concerned about getter brand awareness and site traffic out of their...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Numbers Behind Prism
Numbers Guy spins some ideas and the implications of the false positive .... as more of us are being watched, a concern for everyone. ...
From Schneier on Security
NSA E-Mail Eavesdropping
More Snowden documents analyzed by the Guardian -- two articles -- discuss how the NSA collected e-mails and data on Internet activity of both Americans and foreigners...
From Putting People First
Notes on “Ambient Commons”, by Malcolm McCullough
Malcolm McCullough is one the key thinkers and writers about the intersection of the network, digital media, and the urban and architectural. Dan Hill (who will...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CS Education Interview: Pat Yongpradit–Code.org
Pat Yongpradit has been an award winning computer science teacher at Springbrook High School for a number of years. He has taken high school teams to the national...
From Putting People First
Urban sustainability: what will a smart city look like in the future?
By 2050 there will be five billion urbanites but, with pressure on resources and climate disruption, how will cities cope? New technology and conceptual design...
From Putting People First
Four ways cities should be adapting to change
The report “State of the City: 5 Trends Impacting US Cities,” issued by Living Cities, not only provides guidance about what issues are trending but also how cities...
From Computational Complexity
Computability in Europe
Bill and I are both in Europe this week. I'm in Milan at Computability in Europe and Bill is 500 miles away in Budapest for the Paul Erdős Centenary. The US 4th...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-mart vs Amazon in Online Groceries
In Knowledge @ Wharton: Very good piece on which of these retail giants are ahead in online retail, and the implications for their future. " ... Retail behemoths...
From Schneier on Security
How the NSA Eavesdrops on Americans
Two weeks ago, the Guardian published two new Snowden documents. These outline how the NSA's data-collection procedures allow it to collect lots of data on Americans...
From The Eponymous Pickle