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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
Model Based Recommendation Agent
I became interested in a new recommendation smartphone App called Alfred, which recommends restaurants, etc, It is glowingly described and reviewed in ReadwriteWeb...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-07-19
FLOSS: Accept no substitutes | ITworld These sorts of scams were a serious problem that we spent a great deal of thought addressing in connection with OpenOffice...
From Putting People First
Report published on Behaviour Change
The main conclusion of the Behaviour Change report, published today by the UK House of Lords Science and Technology Sub-Committee, is that ‘nudging’ on its own...
From Putting People First
Beyond the cubicle
Allison Arieff talks in her New York Times Opinionator blog about the design of work. Paraphrasing Nathan Shedroff, she states that furniture is not the problem...
From Schneier on Security
Telex Anti-Censorship System
This is really clever: Many anticensorship systems work by making an encrypted connection (called a “tunnel”) from the user's computer to a trusted proxy server...
From Putting People First
Design and behaviourism: a brief review
Dan Lockton is publishing extracts from his Brunel University Ph.D thesis
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Small Basic 1.0 is here!
Have you been working with Small Basic? If so you probably know that it has officially been pre-release software. Well not it is released software and you can now...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Renting Textbooks
Now you can rent textbooks from Amazon via Kindle and Kindle Apps. ReadwriteWeb reports that is not cheaper than buying a used textbook. The market will likely...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Competitions Spark Fires of CS Enthusiasm
Students love competitions! * Show off their skills * Earn public recognition for their work * Collaborate with other students * Solve deep and typically meaningful...
From Wild WebMink
? Drinks With ForgeRock at OSCON
Will you be in Portland (the one in Oregon in the USA) next week?
From Schneier on Security
Liars and Outliers Cover
My new book, Liars and Outliers, has a cover. Publication is still scheduled for the end of February -- in time for the RSA Conference -- assuming I finish the...
From My Biased Coin
Rabin's 80th Birthday Celebration
Big announcement: We'll be having an 80th birthday conference celebration for Michael Rabin at Harvard at the end of August. Lots of great talks by big-name CS...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Games Talk: Serious Play
I will be giving a talk this Wednesday July 20, at 6:30 PM in the Cincinnati area on the use of serious game mechanics. Providing details of a number of examples...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Featured in 'Women In Tech You Need To Follow On Twitter '
On Friday evening, I was surprised to open my email after only a few hours and find that I had over 100 unread messages. For someone who almost always hasinbox...
From The Eponymous Pickle
eLearning and Serious Games
Heather Thomas at the Trivantis blog has posted a good article on the use of game mechanics for eLearning. Making learning immediately rewarding and inspiring...
From Computational Complexity
Disproofing the Myth that many early logicians were a few axioms short of a complete set
While I was working on this post another blogger posted on the same topic here and I found a book review of Logicomix that touched on some of the same issues here...
From Schneier on Security
British Phone Hacking Scandal
Ross Anderson discusses the technical and policy details.
From Putting People First