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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
Measuring national happiness
Your Better Life Index is an interactive tool that allows you to see how countries perform according to the importance you give to each of 11 topics
From The Eponymous Pickle
What is Knowledge
Malcolm Chisholm looks at Knowledge. What are vendors trying to sell me when they market knowledge management?
From The Eponymous Pickle
Critical Look at Gamification
A good look at the issues about gamification. We discovered a number of these in out own explorations. Worth thinking about for anyone interested in the idea...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-06-15
First TDF Advisory Board members demonstrate wide corporate support for LibreOffice The Document Foundation continues its steady progress with news of a Gnome-style...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
AHRQ Calling for Health IT Research Proposals
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has issued several solicitations in recent weeks focused...
From Schneier on Security
The Non-Anonymity of Bubble Forms
It turns out that "fill-in-the-bubble" forms are not so anonymous.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Is Internet Education the Answer
A friend sent me a link to this inforgraphic about Internet education. I have mixed feelings about all this. I am ok with distance learning – where the lecture...
From Computational Complexity
FCRC 2011. Part I of... maybe I, maybe more.
I do not log on at conferences so I came back to 400 emails. Exactly 400- not sure how I managed that. TODAY I am posting about a few things from FCRC, I may post...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
100,000 Views
A quick break from the usual sorts of posts in this space: The Computing Community Consortium launched this blog three years ago as a way to promote discussion...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The language interpreters are the new machines
Most Computer Science textbooks assume that algorithms are written directly into machine language for an idealized machine under a Von Neumann architecture. Alas...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Consmr Rates Package Goods
A new service, Consmr hopes to be the Yelp of Consumer Packaged Goods. The name is somewhat hard to follow. Also, how much rating is actually done for these types...
From Schneier on Security
Status Report on the War on Photography
Worth reading: Morgan Leigh Manning, "Less than Picture Perfect: The Legal Relationship between Photographers' Rights and Law Enforcement," Tennessee Law Review...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Panopticon
Stephen Few looks at the data visualization vendor Panopticon. Took a brief look at them some time back, and they are certainly worth a closer examination. As...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mismeasure of Man is UnBiased
In the NYT: Have read with great interest the books of Stephen J Gould for years. Now one of his most famous findings, in the Mismeasure of Man, turns out to be...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM's 100th Anniversary
In school I was offered a job working with IBM on disk drive analysis, but I went in another direction. In my first enterprise job I worked with their optimization...
From Putting People First
Experientia wins Italian National Prize for Innovation in Services
Experientia wins Italian National Prize for Innovation in Services, sponsored by the Italian government and Confcommercio. The President of the Republic, Giorgio...
From Putting People First
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From Schneier on Security
Yet Another Way to Evade TSA's Full-Body Scanners
Last night, at the Third EPIC Champion of Freedom Awards Dinner, we gave an award to Susie Castillo, whose blog post and video of her treatment in the hands of...
From The Eponymous Pickle