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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 Wild WebMink
? Voicemail Cracking
I’m getting tired of all the news reports that are incorrectly accusing the News of the World of
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Interpolated Data for Speedy Cancer Detection
Magnetic resonance imaging is an attractive tool for detecting breast cancer, but its slow speed and poor resolution limit its viability. With hardware and software...
From My Biased Coin
h-index != impact
Suresh and Daniel Lemire (in Google+ posts) have pointed to the following paragraph from this blog: The sad thing is that young people have now been terrified...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-07-08
USTR New Exclusive Right for Copyright Holders: Importation Provision in the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) | Knowledge Ecology International USTR continues...
From Schneier on Security
Organized Crime in Ireland Evolves As Security Increases
The whole article is interesting, but here's just one bit: The favoured quick-fix money-making exercise of the average Irish organised crime gang had, for decades...
From Wild WebMink
? Investing In Open Source
Does your company use open source software? Do they contribute to it in any way? If not, perhaps you should follow the Brazilian government’s lead. Read about it...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google New Search Stuff
Several interesting things in Google, a search by image with should give some hints about how well this can be done today. Similar to Google Googles on mobile...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Policy Highlights from Communications of the ACM
Below is a list of items with policy relevance from the April issue of Communications of the ACM. As always, much of the material in CACM is premium content, and...
From Computational Complexity
Scooped by 400 years
This article claims that finding the area under a curve by dividing up the region into rectangles is helpful. Maybe they could take some sort of... limiting process...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Pixar Senior Scientist on Computer Animation
Here’s another great talk — by Tony DeRose, Senior Scientist and head of the Research Group at Pixar Animation Studios — at the recent
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-07-07
UK looks to US on piracy blocking Ed Vaizey's views at outrageously uninformed if this report is correct. (tags: UK Internet) Open Rights Group | Meeting with Ed...
From Schneier on Security
Comparing al Qaeda and the IRA
A really interesting article: Al Qaeda played all out, spent all its assets in a few years. In my dumb-ass 2005 article, I called the Al Qaeda method "real war"...
From Putting People First
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Jane Wakefield, BBC technology reporter, explores how the social experience of real shopping can help improve web retail, and how the online social shopping experience...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Programming at South Dakota Gear Up
South Dakota Gear UP is an outstanding program run at the South Dakota Schools of Mines and Technology in Rapid City. This year a programming mini course was added...
From Putting People First
Report: Behaviour Change and Energy Use
The Behavioural Insight Team of David Cameron’s Cabinet Office – widely known as the ‘nudge unit‘, has published the repor, Behaviour Change and Energy Use, setting...
From Putting People First
Web 3.0 is all about social personalisation
Forget Web 2.0. During a panel on social media at the recent Wharton Global Alumni Forum, industry experts argued that we are now in a “third wave” of disruption...
From Apophenia
How to Take an Email Sabbatical
It’s summer time and many folks are heading off to vacation and fretting about coming back to overloaded inboxes. Folks keep asking me about my email sabbaticals...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Printer Produces Chocolate
Long time interest in remote manufacturing and the remote transmission of foods. Here is a simple example. What other foods might be assembled remotely via digital...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alan Haberman of Barcode Fame Dies
Alan Haberman, Who usered in the Bar Code, Dies at 81On a summer morning in 1974, a man in Ohio bought a package of chewing gum and the whole world changed....
From My Biased Coin