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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 Computing Community Consortium Blog
ITA Software
Remember the electronic reservation system that you used to book your summer vacation this year? Well, in all likelihood, it was powered by information technology...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Barbara Liskov receives an honorary degree from Northwestern
… and a shout-out early in Stephen Colbert’s hilarious commencement address. Congratulations Barbara!
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Beautiful Deep-Sea Squid Picture
From the Telegraph (also here).
From Michael Nielsen
Data-driven intelligence
I’ve started a new blog, on data-driven intelligence. In future, this is where technical posts like my Google Technology Stack posts will go. There are two posts...
From Schneier on Security
Court Ruling on "Reasonable" Electronic Banking Security
One of the pleasant side effects of being too busy to write longer blog posts is that -- if I wait long enough -- someone else writes what I would have wanted to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Google Analytics
The latest version of Google Analytics now includes new breakdowns of regions in many other parts of the world. Very useful additional extraction. See alsoGoogle...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
On Telling the World My Life is About to Change
I recently unleashed the following announcement to Facebook and Twitter:BabyFactory.RequestNewInstance(BABY_TYPE_GEEK);Pregnant. by rui guerraThat's right! I'mView...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Internet of Things
A good overview article in the BBC on the Internet of Things. Really a relatively old idea that we explored with MIT with such ideas like replacing the bar code...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Call for Papers: Collective Intelligence 2012
Tom Malone and Luis von Ahn — with funding from the
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-06-17
NZOSS Wins Patent Opposition So Microsoft doesn't have a patent on XML in document processing in New Zealand. Excellent result for the New Zealand Open Source Society...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile Marketing Rules
Well put: 4 Rules of engagement for mobile marketing. Author Carla Paschke ... is Director of Mobile Innovation at Engaugewhere she is responsible for providing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crowdsourcing to Create Metadata
Tagging images is one of the oldest crowdsourcing applications of constructing metadata...Dartmouth College researchers have developed Metadata Games, an experiment...
From My Biased Coin
NSF Changing Broader Impacts
The NSF is changing its description of its merit criteria -- specifically, what the Broader Impacts criteria will be. The details are still being worked out, and...
From My Biased Coin
Dr. Georgios Zervas
Congratulations to Georgios (alternatively, Giorgos), who defended his thesis today.* (There's still some paperwork to get in, but we drank the champagne afterward...
From The Eponymous Pickle
In Search of Structure
Searching for data structure, From the Noisy Channel by Daniel Tunkelang. Some discussuib and lots of links about making data more useful.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Want to Earn $50K?
A couple of very interesting prize-based competitions have been announced in the past week. The first — with Vint Cerf, U.S. Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Kinect SDK
Finally! The officially supported Kinect Software Developer Kit for the Kinect Device for Windows is now available. Kinect SDK download. To help you get started...