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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
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...
From Wild WebMink
The FT and the App Trap
I got an e-mail from the Financial Times yesterday, announcing their new “FT App”. That sounded unusual; after all, the FT has had an iPad/iPhone app for some time...
From Computational Complexity
Theory Jobs 2011
The computer science job market never comes to a complete close. CI Fellows are still being decided, Oxford is just starting its search for an algorithms professor...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Collaboration as an Intangible Asset
In the Harvard Bogs: Not so intangible, I say. Today though it can be done in ways that were not possible formerly. In a conversation I had yesterday we discussed...
From Putting People First
SEE Conference report by Mark Vanderbeeken
On 29 March, Experientia partner Mark Vanderbeeken chaired the European SEE Conference on integrating design into regional and national policies. The high-level...
From Putting People First
Book: What
What’s Mine Is Yours: How Collaborative Consumption is Changing the Way We Live by Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers Collins, 2011 304 pages In the 20th century humanity...
From Putting People First
Shareable: Share or Die [new e-book]
Share or Die is the first collection of writing from Generation Y about post-college work and life in the 21st Century. “It contains nearly 30 essays, cartoons,...
From Putting People First
Open Source Architecture (OSArc)
Domus Magazine has published an op-ed advocating a different approach to designing space – to succeed the single-author model – that includes tools from disparate...
From The Eponymous Pickle