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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
ACM Names Judea Pearl 2011 Turing Award Winner
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Retailers Shutting Facebook Stores
The curious example of retailers shutting their Facebook stores. " ... A Bloomberg report this weekend pointed out that Gap, J.C. Penney, Nordstrom and GameStop...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
REMINDER: NSF/CISE Running a CAREER Workshop
As we noted in this space last month, the
From Schneier on Security
More "Liars and Outliers" Links
First, five new reviews of the book. Second, four new AV interviews about the book. Third, I take the Page 99 Test.
From Putting People First
The consumerisation of IT
In November last year, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) published the short (free) report “The consumerization of IT- The next-generation CIO“. The
From The Eponymous Pickle
Encarta Killed Britannica
I well remember when Encarta became available on Windows. The simple encyclopedia was bought by Microsoft and we installed it for tests in some admin offices and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics Magazine
The March April Analytics Magazine. Lots of background and how-to information. Sports,marketing, public sector, supply chain and more.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Buckeye Top Fifty
Communication is an important part of every aspect of our lives, especially when choosing a career. Recently, Kelly Flowers, guidance counsellor at West Muskingum...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Battling for the Wal-Mart Shelf
4000 new products battle for the Wal-Mart Shelf. Interesting stats in CGT. Is this why online ultimately wins? Though you can see and feel and touch the items...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Launches NITRD Symposium Website;Videos, Slides, Written Summaries of Talks All Available
On Feb. 16th, over 150 Federal officials, Congressional staffers, academic researchers, and industry leaders packed a room overlooking the United States Capitol...
From Putting People First
UNDP Mobile Technologies and Empowerment report
A report, recently published by UNDP, on mobile technologies and human development,
From Putting People First
M-Government
This report by Hani Eskandar (ITU), Barbara- Chiara Ubaldi (OECD) and Vyacheslav Cherkasov (UN-DESA) highlights the critical potential of mobile technologies for...
From Putting People First
It
The argument of this pamphlet, written by Charles Leadbeater for IPPR (the Institute for Public Policy Research, the UK
From Apophenia
The Power of Youth: How Invisible Children Orchestrated Kony 2012
To many people unfamiliar with Invisible Children, the Kony 2012 campaign looked like a brilliant example of “viral” media spread. The center of the campaign is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stopping Email Overload
In the HBR: On stopping eMail overload. With more clients and connections the overload is becoming both broader and shallower. " ... Even if you wanted to use...
From Wild WebMink
? Not So Shire
The Hobbit is one of our local pubs. It’s a rather seedy student-focussed music venue that serves cheap booze under fanciful names taken from Tolkein’s books. I...
From Schneier on Security
On Cyberwar Hype
Good article by Thomas Rid on the hype surrounding cyberwar. It's well worth reading. And in a more academic paper, published in the RUSI Journal, Thomas Ridgeneric...
From Wild WebMink
Worsening Patent Wars
Yahoo’s litigation against Facebook is one more example in an unending sequence that demonstrates patents are now primarily a weapon to chill competition rather...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson