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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 Computing Community Consortium Blog
Hack on KC’s 1Gbps Google Fiber: Apply for travel scholarships by Feb 26
The following is a special contribution to the CCC blog from Will Barkis, Project Lead, Mozilla Ignite. Mozilla, in partnership with the National Science Foundation...
From Wild WebMink
Rome’s Answer To Milton Keynes
High Roman Wall, originally uploaded by webmink. We went walking yesterday around the remains of the Roman town Calleva Atrebatum in Silchester, Hampshire. This...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
What kind of researcher are you?
The politician. He will get people to collaborate on joint projects. How to recognize: He knows everyone! Pro: He makes things happen irrespective of the available...
From Schneier on Security
Fixing Soccer Matches
How international soccer matches are fixed. Right now, Dan Tan's programmers are busy reverse-engineering the safeguards of online betting houses. About $3 billion...
From Putting People First
Experientia partner part of Interaction14 organizing team
Interaction, the annual interaction design conference organized by IxDA (the global Interaction Design Association), will head to Amsterdam in in February 2014....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Human Robot Relationships
A good overview piece. A review of some of Sherry Turkle's work. We examined this when we looked at Japanese work on robot companions and help mates. The idea...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Internet Limit
In SCiam: When will the Internet reach its limit, and what are the implications? " ... The number of smartphones, tablets and other network-connected gadgets...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gartner Quadrant for Business Intelligence
I was sent a copy of Gartner's Magic Quadrant publication for business intelligence and analytics software. A simplistic view, but always a good place to start...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Equity, Policy, and and Why "Trickle Down" Doesn't
As a non common-core subject, computer science relies on vigorous policy efforts to help our educational leaders understand the importance of including computing...
From Schneier on Security
19th-Century Traffic Analysis
There's a nice example of traffic analysis in the book No Name, by Wilkie Collins (1862). The attacker, Captain Wragge, needs to know whether a letter has been...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Attack of the Customers
Colleague, correspondent and former co-fellow of mine at SNCR Paul Gillin has written a book just brought to my attention. Attack of the Customers: Why Critics...
From Computational Complexity
Are most lower bounds really upper bounds?
Recently Daniel Apon (grad student of Jon Katz at UMCP, but he also hangs out with me) proved a LOWER BOUND by proving an UPPER BOUND. His paper is here. I have...
From Wild WebMink
Python – Why Is There Even An Issue?
As soon as I heard about the trademark dispute concerning Python, I tried to contact both sides and understand why there was even an issue. I got through straight...
From Putting People First
Teenage usability: designing teen-targeted websites
Recently published Nielsen/Norman Group research shows that teens are (over)confident in their web abilities, but they perform worse than adults. Lower reading...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mining Feeling Bionic Hands
Haptics are a favorite topic. We sought to gather large amounts of data about how hands interacted with products. Then mine that data for specific usage capabilities...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reinventing the Hospital, The Game
From my long time favorite collaborative future consulting group: Insititute for the Future (IFTF). A favorite topic, reinventing health care. I know of a number...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Separation of Web Pages
Back in the 90s we visited mathematician at the Santa Fe Institute, and learned to soon to be iconic statistic that people were separated on the web by a remarkably...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Mining in R: Introductory Resources
The DataMining Collective sends along links to Data Mining in R. Fairly well done as an introduction, of both the power and complexity of using the Package R.the...
From Schneier on Security