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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 Eponymous Pickle
MapQuest Vibe
MapQuest Vibe shows you where the hot neighborhoods are. I like the idea of clicking directly to local information via a map.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Vint Cerf on Innovation
We had him speak to us several times and it was always useful. In Innovation Excellence. An early innovator that brought the Internet to the table. As the...
From Schneier on Security
Using Plant DNA for Authentication
Turns out you can create unique signatures from plant DNA. The idea is to spray this stuff on military components in order to verify authentic items and detect...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
One Option for How to Teach Kodu
I recently ran some workshops to prepare students to be peer mentors and to mentor younger students with Kodu. The method I suggest is to have mentors show students...
From Michael Nielsen
If correlation doesn
That’s the question I address (very partially) in a new post on my data-driven intelligence blog. The post reviews some of the recent work on causal inference done...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Atlantic on Big Data
A good, general article on the increasing use of big data in science. In The Atlantic. We can apply some of those same methods of transformation in science...
From Wild WebMink
Blast from the past
I found I still had a blog on java.net, so I’ve posted a quick note about FOSDEM there!
From Apophenia
How Parents Normalized Teen Password Sharing
In 2005, I started asking teenagers about their password habits. My original set of questions focused on teens’ attitudes about giving their password to their parents...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Should you boycott academic publishers?
There is a growing list of famous scientists who have pledged to boycott Elsevier as a publisher. If I were in charge of Elsevier, I would be very nervous: academic...
From Schneier on Security
Authentication by "Cognitive Footprint"
DARPA is funding research into new forms of biometrics that authenticate people as they use their computer: things like keystroke patterns, eye movements, mouse...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crowd Sourcing Wal-Mart Product Selection
In TechCrunch: How do you get you new product on Wal-Mart's shelf? WalMart labs sponsors a contest to make it happen. Get more people involved in the search for...
From Computational Complexity
What should we do?
Time for a post by tweet request. Is a wave of action against big publishers' practices brewing?gowers.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/els
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Verisign Announces Internet Infrastructure Grant Program
Verisign has announced
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 23 January 2012
Last week really reminded me of how much I miss being in the classroom. Two all-day workshops with a mix of students and adults. Lots of good learning going on....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bone Marrow Markets
MJ Perry reminds us of this issue. I researched the general area of organ and tissue selling during my Health systems research days. Glad to see this brought...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Using Phone Behavior to Determine Credit Worthiness
In Slashdot. The use of a number of phone behavior measures to dive heuristics that influence credit score.
From The Eponymous Pickle
CardMunch Tested
I just tried out the business card scanner from LinkedIn called CardMunch. Loaded the App on my iPhone and scanned a few cards. I have tried other such scanners...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SmartBooks are Approaching
The very moment we saw the first hyper links in documentation, around 1985, we saw that the textbooks of the future were not just about text, but about many different...
From The Eponymous Pickle