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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 Schneier on Security
The CIA and Assassinations
The former CIA general counsel, John A. Rizzo, talks about his agency's assassination program, which has increased dramatically under the Obama administration: ...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
XozGaming
XozGaming is an Imagine Cup game development team made up of two high school juniors from Lick-Wilmerding High School. Julius is the artist and Xander is the...
From Wild WebMink
? Balancing Transparency and Privacy
One of the keys to a successful open source community is appropriate transparency. A community with strong values around transparency will also be likely to respect...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Intelligence With the Cloud and Internet as Data
Always intriguing Recorded Future blog spins some ideas about the Internet as data. I have had the opportunity to commission and examine some very large scale...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Final US Imagine Cup Teams Announced - 2011
After a trip to Seattle (space needle, Pike Place Market, etc.) last night the US Imagine Cup teams started today at the Microsoft store in down town Bellevue...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Making Money With Mobile
In Fast Company Epicenter: Mobile is the next big thing? Wasn't it already? Well, yes, but it is getting much bigger and even more valuable if you just do the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Open Data Hubs
BuzzData writes about what makes an Open Data Hub. " ... Which open data communities are thriving?Which ones are flailing or stalled? What are reliable indicators...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-04-10
Groklaw Articles Ending on May 16th Pamela declares victory, resists the temptation to diversify and announces Groklaw will no longer publish original articles....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Abstraction in Data Management
Good, relatively technical overview of the concept with useful examples.
From Putting People First
Book: A new culture of learning
A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change by Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown Publisher: CreateSpace – January, 2011)...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
US Imagine Cup Finals 2011
I have been in the Seattle area (mostly Bellevue and Redmond) the past couple of days for the US Imagine Cup Finals. And it has been an amazing time with the...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Bioinspired Design: Method in the Beautiful Madness?
The following is a special contribution to this blog by Ashok Goel, Associate Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science in the School of Interactive Computing...
From Wild WebMink
? Protei
Hunter Daniel and Protei-003, originally uploaded by cesarharada.com. Here’s a Kickstarter project that deserves your attention. A worldwide group of experts and...
From Wild WebMink
? Investment
@wouterdewanckelwouter dewanckel CFO asks CEO "What happens if we invest in developing our people & then they leave us?" CEO: 'What happens if we don't, and they...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Internet Probe Can Track within Hundreds of Meters
In New Scientist: a new method claims to be able to track someone on the Internet within 690 meters. Note this has nothing to do with GPS on a mobile device, but...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Overlapping Experimental Infrastructure
In the innovation centers we were continually constructing experiments. Multiple options that would ultimately examine the space occupied by a new product, technology...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Live Streaming from YouTube
This roll out fromYouTube can provide some useful training and information delivery opportunities. " ... The goal is to provide thousands of partners with the capability...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: A New Book About Squid
Wendy Williams, Kraken: The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid. Kraken is the traditional name for gigantic sea monsters, and this book...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
In Praise of Brevity
For those of us at universities, the school year is winding down. I am teaching our second semester course this spring, and I usually try to add some off-syllabus...
From Apophenia