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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 Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Mihai P?tra?cu 1982
A pathbreaking researcher taken too soon from us (src) Mihai Pătraşcu passed away on Tuesday of brain cancer, having not yet reached age 30. We, Dick and Ken, did...
From Wild WebMink
Old Arguments Resurfacing
I’ve been working with corporate open source for long enough now that arguments against it that were popular years ago, which I’d assumed were fully explained and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mapping Learning to Value
In Chief Learning Officer: " ... Economic models change and firms follow, dragging the accountants kicking and screaming. Understanding business
From Schneier on Security
The Catastrophic Consequences of 9/11
This is an interesting essay -- it claims to be the first in a series -- that looks at the rise of "homeland security" as a catastrophic consequence of the 9/11...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
So you want to teach computer science?
A number of years ago after being laid off from a job developing software I went into teaching. I taught a year in a pair of elementary schools and then spent 8...
From Putting People First
Mark Vanderbeeken: The English language innovation bias
Experientia partner Mark Vanderbeeken wrote an article on the dominance of the English language in the discourse of innovation and the bias that this creates. This...
From My Biased Coin
Mihai Memorial Blog
I received the following note from Mikkel Thorup and Alexandr Andoni.I believe it's appropriate to share:Dear friends of Mihai,We made a blog in Mihai's memory....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intrinsic Motivation
The ThreeJoy site points us to Dan Pink's " ... RSA Animate video from his bestseller Drive is a terrific way into the potential for intrinsic motivation in engineering...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Top IT Trends from Gartner
Top 2012 IT trends from Gartner. " ... Gartner kicked off its Infrastructure & Operations Management Summit here today with a "top 10" list of the most significant...
From The Noisy Channel
Scale, Structure, and Semantics
This morning I had the pleasure to present a keynote address at the Semantic Technology & Business Conference (SemTechBiz). I’ve had a long and warm relationship...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Three Dimensional Brands
In AdAge: This is not about new kinds of reality, but about linking pictures of brands to the real thing. Apple does it well with their stores. Varies by the...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Feedback on Feedback
I'm looking for feedback on feedback. Giving feedback to students, that is. I'm being pulled in three directions on this topic and would like to hear from fellow...
From Wild WebMink
Nesting Time
Are Nest Labs through to open ground at last? After its brush with an especially unpleasant patent troll, the tide seems to be changing for the makers of the Nest...
From Putting People First
The future of data visualisation
Drew Skau, a visualization architect of Visual.ly, explores what will change in data visualisation in the future: - Data visualization will become ubiquitous -...
From Putting People First
Does your phone know how happy you are?
Kit Eaton explores the coming of age of the emotion-recognition industry. “Because the smartphones we all carry contain sophisticated computing power, cloud computing...
From Putting People First
Computational user experiences at Microsoft Research
“The Computational User Experiences (CUE) group [at Microsoft Research] creates technologies that augment our personal and professional digital lives to enhance...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Addressing the Complexity of the Supply Chain
Good overview about how 3M is addressing the complexity of its supply chain. The solutions used are common examinations that a large enterprise has to make. Analytical...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
My Air, My Health: Developing a Personal Pollution Sensor
The U.S Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) — notably its Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and National Institute...
From Computational Complexity
Mihai P?tra?cu (1982-2012)
Mihai P?tra?cu passed away Tuesday after a bout with brain cancer. Even though he hadn't reached his 30th birthday, he had already produced a number of major achievements...
From Schneier on Security