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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 Putting People First
Dan Lockton on how architecture and urbanism can be used to influence behaviour
Dan Lockton is continuing publishing extracts from his Brunel University Ph.D thesis
From Putting People First
What
When we talk about customer or user experience in the financial services arena, what do we actually mean? The understanding of banks and banking is not a straightforward...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Many Pages on the Internet
I like numbers. Have heard many estimates over the years. Billions at first. Trillions some say. Now a new effort is underway to estimate the size of the net...
From My Biased Coin
Rabin's Birthday Celebration
While I was not blogging, we spent the few days before the semester started with an 80th birthday workshop for Michael Rabin. Impressively, we were able to pull...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM's Watson Does Diagnoses
Another piece about uses for the IBM Watson Computer. Once again, patient diagnosis was an early application for artificial intelligence. In particular pulmonary...
From Apophenia
Guilt Through Algorithmic Association
You’re a 16-year-old Muslim kid in America. Say your name is Mohammad Abdullah. Your schoolmates are convinced that you’re a terrorist. They keep typing in Google...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
What Makes a Workshop Work?
This past summer marked the addition of a full day of workshops to the CS&IT Symposium. More than 120 individuals attended morning and afternoon sessions on a...
From The Eponymous Pickle
9/11 Myths
A few years ago I had the displeasure of talking to a person who was absolutely convinced of and promoting several of the prominent 9/11 myths. Damaging and disturbing...
From Schneier on Security
More 9/11 Retrospectives
Joseph Stiglitz on the price of 9/11. How 9/11 changed surveillance. New scientific research as a result of 9/11. A good controversial piece. The day we lost...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Walmart Labs Addresses the ZMOT
Good piece in AdAge on the reason for Walmart Labs: Suggesting that Wal-Mart is in an increasing bind due to the online world. " ... Developments in Search and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAP and Sybase Unwired
After talking with SAP on a panel last week and asking about their mobile business intelligence solutions, they have sent me a link about their SyBase Unwired mobility...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Posterous Becomes Social
I have recommended Posterous for a beginner's blogging engine for beginners. In particular for its ability to work with mobile. I created a few templates for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Our Nature
I am a big fan of Steven Pinker, read a number of his books. On his forthcoming book. The Better Angels of our Nature:Why Violence has Declined.The author of The...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of September 12
September 14 Hearing: The Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit Subcommittee of the House Financial Services Committee will hold a hearing on cybercrime and...
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