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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 Computer Science Teachers Association
ICT in Abu Dhabi
I am lucky enough to be situated in a school in the Abu Dhabi emirate (in a town called Al Ain) for 12 weeks. Although I work as a Math advisor, I talk to a number...
From Schneier on Security
Three-Volume History of Counterintelligence
CI Reader: An American Revolution Into the New Millennium, Volumes I, II, and III is published by the U.S. Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Make Every e-Book a Social Network
Thoughts about turning an e-book into a social reading network. Makes sense, though I wonder how often people will interact in this way. Comments on the books...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Magazines Rush to the Pads
Is it based on Insanity and Fear? And will it take decades to complete? An AdAge interview looks at the implications. I think there will be dual channels for...
From Computational Complexity
RaTLoCC (Ramsey Theory in...)
I was at RatLoCC last week which stands for Ramsey Theory in Logic, Combinatorics and Complexity. The idea was to bring in researchers for all three areas (actually...
From Schneier on Security
The U.S. Seems to Have a Secret Stealth Helicopter
That's what the U.S. destroyed after a malfunction in Pakistan during the Bin Laden assassination. (For helicopters, "stealth" is less concerned with radar signatures...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of May 31
UPDATE (June 1) – The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing scheduled for June 1 has been postponed. While the Senate is not in session this week...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Random Hacks of Kindness June 2011
Are you interesting in public service, of using you computer science, web development, information technology and other
From The Eponymous Pickle
Greenbook on Mobile Market Research
Their section on Mobile, an increasingly important area, as mobile devices become data gathering and sensor devices. At an event recently I gave an impromptu...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Atlanta (Georgia) Area Windows Phone Camp for Students
Tara Walker is running a three-day Microsoft Mobile Development appLab at the Library at the Atlanta-Fulton County Library June 7 - 9th : 9:30am - 4:00pm This...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Using Recorded Future for Competitive Intelligence
A good presentation video on competitive intelligence. The startup Recorded Future is a novel search engine that uses the rich time-based information found intheir...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Health IT: Study Shows Telemedicine Improves Patient Outcomes
From this week’s IEEE Spectrum: According to doctors at the
From Schneier on Security
Keeping Sensitive Information Out of the Hands of Terrorists Through Self-Restraint
In my latest book (available February), I talk about various mechanisms for societal security: how we as a group protect ourselves from the "dishonest minority"...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links Post 31 May 2011
Since yesterday was Memorial Day I posted something just a bit fun and saved my links post for today. I hope those of you in the US enjoyed a three day weekend...
From The Noisy Channel
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If you Google [relevance theory], you’ll discover this Wikipedia entry about a theory proposed by Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visual Beauty of Machine Learning
From Matthew Hurst's site. I remember seeing similar visuals which represented processes like sorting, also very naturally visual. Since this is so visual, could...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tide Brings Loads of Hope
Tide's Loads of Hope comes to the tornado strucken area. In Drug Store News, a simple but very useful gesture that follows disaster, by my former employer.
From The Eponymous Pickle