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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
? Software freedom and the cloud
Cloud computing is not just disruptive to the software market; it’s also disruptive to software freedom advocacy. Software freedom has been defined as being present...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Design Lessons from the Bottom of the Pyramid
From the Harvard Blogs: Design Lessons from the Bottom of the Consumer Pyramid. " ... At the BOP, affordability is necessary but not sufficient. Tastes and aspirations...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stop Typing, Start Shouting
ShoutOMatic. A kind of audio twitter. " ... Think of each shout as an audible status update. In between some of your regular 'text' tweets and status updates...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Open Source Tag Generation
A number of solutions to the problem, imperfect, but useful. The methods I have tried in the past have not worked well.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Always Mount A Scratch Monkey
Do today
From Schneier on Security
Fingerprint Scanner that Works at a Distance
Scanning fingerprints from six feet away. Slightly smaller than a square tissue box, AIRprint houses two 1.3 megapixel cameras and a source of polarized light....
From My Biased Coin
Daily Updates
Getting slowly back into blogging, some happenings from the day.I've gotten a couple of nice notes from students saying they learned a lot from my class this semester...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sharing Data Corrupts Wisdom of Crowds
Some experiments are showing that sharing information makes a knowledge pool less diverse and leads to worse results. In a test we saw something similar, but we...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Time-saving versus work-inducing software
At a glance, office software like Word, PowerPoint or Excel, are great time savers. Nobody would want to go back to the era before Word Processors? Unfortunately...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
CS&IT and Summertime PD
The flowers are blooming (finally) here in Massachusetts so spring has indeed arrived, which means, summer is not too far away. Some of us think, can it get here...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of May 16
May 19 Meeting: The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology will meet. The meeting will be webcast. 9 a.m., Marriott Metro Center, 775 12th Street...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reading: Reality is Broken
I am doing some research in the area of 'gamification' and the use of games to solve serious work processes. That and some emerging project work has led me toReality...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Jeff Naughton
Jeff Naughton, a top database researcher from the University of Wisconsin – Madison, has made available a superb keynote that he gave at the 26th IEEE International...
From Computational Complexity
On demand Publishing (guest post)
Cambridge Press (and others) offers PRINT-ON-DEMAND for some books. This is a guest post by Lauren Cowles from Cambridge Books about this, and then my commentsWhats...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Marginalia in the Digital World
It is not as easy as it once once. Yet is still exists. Good thoughts and software that can help. And in one sense isn't all of the Web and hyperlinks a form...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Look at Edward Tufte
In the Washington Monthly, a good article on visualization guru Edward Tufte. " ... Edward Tufte occupies a revered and solitary place in the world of graphic...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Flying Robots Form Emergency Network
From IEEE Computer.Org a kind of mobile computer sourcing.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Live Webcast: The U.S. Ignite Gigabit Applications Workshop
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From Schneier on Security