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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 My Biased Coin
SIGCOMM Webcast
Got a note from the ACM that SIGCOMM is being live Webcast the next few days. (I'm not in Toronto for it -- hello to everyone who is!) A simple click and I'm listening...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-08-16
Welcome to the Cloud – "Your Apple ID has been disabled." – Scott Hanselman By introducing remote control points we risk more and more of this. (tags: Apple Cloud...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Impressions of SIGGRAPH 2011
Last week I was in Vancouver for this year's SIGGRAPH conference - not presenting, but as a lab trip. As the website says, the "conference and exhibition is aJamie...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Windows Phone Development Training Online
SO you probably know that a new version of the Windows Phone software is coming very soon. If you are planning on teaching phone development you may also be thinking...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Designing for Collaboration and Mobility Plus Circles
Have recently seen several examples of companies handing out large numbers of tablets and phone Apps, without really thinking through the entire process. HereDesigning...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM Notes Concerns with Proposed SSA Online Authentication Process
Like many federal agencies, the Social Security Administration (SSA) is trying to provide more services in a time of limited resources. As part of its efforts to...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Better job ads
Before writing your next job ad, look at what companies who recruit talented engineers do. According to a recent Google job posting, here are the requirements to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Moves Toward Continual Marketing Analysis
This is the future, providing continuous analysis to key measures and making sure the right people get the data continually. Procter & Gamble is working withAdvertising...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Luckiest Generation
MJ Perry on the youngest generation. At least technologically, and even at a minimum wage job, quite remarkable.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Who Uses Mag 2-D Barcodes?
In ADAge: Key findings " ... Among Readers Who Saw Ads with Codes, 4% Snapped a Picture, Gfk MRI Starch Research Says : As quickly as interactive 2-D barcodesyou...
From Computational Complexity
An application of Ramsey Theory to Proving Programs Terminate
B. Cook, Podelski, and Rybalchenko have done both practical and theoretical work on proving that programs terminate. They use Ramsey's Theorem (Yeah!). Jon Katz...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The Web is killing database systems
A typical enterprise computing architecture relies on databases, professionally managed by DBAs. Developers grow applications which all update or query the same...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google to Buy Motorola
We worked with Motorola and Symbol, a company it bought, to understand technology in retail. Now Google is buying Motorola for an estimated 12 Billion. Google...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gesture Technology
Gestures are a way to have consumers interact with systems in retail. One of our areas of exploration was to understand this dynamic. The Canadian formGestureTek...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-08-15
Google's Real Names Policy Is Evil This policy is amazingly misguided – it's like Franco trying to stamp out Catalan by banning baby names not on the state list...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
A Robot That Bakes Cookies
Ever tried baking — yes, baking — and found it challenging? Well, try teaching it to a robot. That’s just what a group of researchers at MIT’s Computer Science...
From Schneier on Security
New, Undeletable, Web Cookie
A couple of weeks ago Wired reported the discovery of a new, undeletable, web cookie: Researchers at U.C. Berkeley have discovered that some of the net’s mostfinally...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 15 August 2011
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From The Eponymous Pickle
MobileWorks: Mobile Human Sourcing Intelligence
Long a follower of human and by extension crowd sourcing human intelligence tasks. Humans are just much better at efficiently performing certain tasks than machines...
From The Eponymous Pickle