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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 Geeking with Greg
Even more quick links
Even more of what has caught my attention recently:Spooky but cool research: "Electrical pulses to the brain and muscles ... activate and deactivate the insect's...
From My Biased Coin
Yes, We Are Hiring (2012)
Harvard CS will be hiring this year.One tenure-track position is geared toward systems, very broadly defined.A second tenure-track position is in Applied Math,link...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Book on P&G
Via my alumni group. The Financial Times Press has announced a new book about Procter & Gamble: When Core Values are Strategic: How the Basic Values of Procter...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cause Marketing on Facebook
In Forbes: Tips and trends on cause marketing in Facebook. " ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Launches Price Check App
This seems like a very simple and easy idea. Do an automatic price comparison check after an item scan on a Smartphone. Includes all categories of items. Most...
From The Eponymous Pickle
DemandTec and Big Data
I am in the middle of exploring big data analytic applications in retail and manufacturing and this post came up:" ... Target is following a growing trend in retail...
From Schneier on Security
Identity Theft Call Center
There's a group who charges to make social engineering calls to obtain missing personal information for identity theft. This doesn't surprise me at all. Fraud...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Leading With Kinect
Yesterday I had the pleasure of hosting a group of students from the Boston Preparatory Charter Public School. I even wore a tie because these students wear ties...
From The Noisy Channel
CIKM 2011 Industry Event: John Giannandrea on Freebase
This post is part of a series summarizing the presentations at
From The Eponymous Pickle
Efficient Project Staffing with Social Networks
A quite good piece in the HBR Blog on some of the issues behind using social technologies for staffing and collaboration. In particular I like the statement of...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM Encourages Deficit Reduction Committee to Remember the Value of Computing
The Joint Committee on Deficit Reduction is the formal name of the “Supercommittee” that is supposed to recommend at least $1.2 trillion in deficit reduction over...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Innovation Lab
Having worked at an enterprise innovation lab for years, I found this short piece about the Google X labs interesting, Admittedly we went no where nearly asan...
From Schneier on Security
More SSL Woes
From Mikko Hypponen: "We found a malware sample. Which was signed. With a valid certificate. Belonging to the Government of Malaysia."
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Reminder: CCC Council Nominations Due Tomorrow
A reminder that the Computing Community Consortium (CCC)
From My Biased Coin
Public Salary Information
While visiting Wisconsin last week (enjoying very pleasant company and conversation), various issues came up.For one, I was reminded (or recalled) that as a public...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Are Relational Databases good for anything anymore?
NOTE: thanks to Daniel for letting me use his blog. All comments, questions and criticisms are appreciated, but in this case Daniel is not the guilty party! Antonio...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Many Issues Have No Borders
At the recent CSTA board meeting, a recent paper on the status of computing in several countries (including the USA) was pointed out to me. The paper has Simon...
From The Noisy Channel
CIKM 2011 Industry Event: Stephen Robertson on Why Recall Matters
On October 27th, I had the pleasure to chair the CIKM 2011 Industry Event with former Endeca colleague Tony Russell-Rose. It is my pleasure to report that the program...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog