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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 Computational Complexity
Imagine
Looking back, it's pretty amazing how new technologies like Google, cell phones, Facebook and Twitter have changed society in completely unexpected ways. Let's...
From Schneier on Security
ACLU Report on the War on Terror
This report is really good: "A Call to Courage: Reclaiming Our Liberties Ten Years After 9/11."
From My Biased Coin
Blogging Again?
My thoughts that I would blog more over the summer, during academic "down time", turned out more of a fiction than I would have thought. The summer proved remarkably...
From Wild WebMink
? Writer
Over the weekend I realised how much pleasure I get from listening to Garrison Keillor each day with his small but perfectly formed “Writer’s Almanac” podcast.I’m...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 12 September 2011
After a wonderful long weekend for Labor Day I spent the rest of last week in San Antonio Texas for a series of meetings. This didn
From The Eponymous Pickle
Zapaday
I was just alerted to Zapaday. A site, which has similarities in purpose to Recorded Future, which I have now followed for some time. " ... Editors and bots...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovation Execution
Paul Hobcraft on the execution of innovation. Its easy to build up a portfolio of innovation ideas. Much harder to execute them in a particular context of the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Growth in Data Related Jobs and the Importance of Language
From the Language Log. Language is important when you are looking for employment: " ... At the Revolutions blog, David Smith posts a nice little discussion about ...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
On 9/11 Anniversary,
As our nation pauses today to remember and reflect upon this tenth anniversary of 9/11, we recall the heroic efforts of ordinary citizens in the aftermath of that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Commercial Jetpacks
After so many years it appears that commercial, one person flying jet packs are getting much closer. Legal apparently. Safe? Watch the skies.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Over versus Underpackaging
A talk I gave this week in Chicago alerted me again to the issues involved in packaging products. I recall we were called in to look at how people reacted to packaging...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Perception of Time
On the brain's perception of time. We examined this as part of how people shop. How does it change the dwell time in front of a shelf?
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Gastronomy
This week I gave a presentation in Chicago and mentioned the idea of manufacturing food and beverage remotely, giving as examples the Coke Freestyle machine and...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Beautiful Squid Drawings
From Italy. As before, use the comments to this post to write about and discuss security stories that don't have their own post.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Knowing That Order Matters
The start of a new year puts me once again in front of a second semester class, using as text the pdf of my book that is about to appear (shameless advertising)...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Game Papers at SIGGRAPH 2011 (Part 2 of 2)
A previous post talked about two game paper presentations I saw at SIGGRAPH 2011. Here is part two with a summary of the second two talks.Evaluating gesture-based...
From Apophenia