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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
"Resilience of the Internet Interconnection Ecosystem"
This blog post by Richard Clayton is worth reading. If you have more time, there's 238-page report and a 31-page executive summary.
From Wild WebMink
? Meddling In Foreign Affairs
The Special 301 Report is an annual publication by the US Trade Representative (USTR), fulfilling US legal requirements to identify countries whose copyright, patent...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Searchable Body Map
In ReadWriteWeb: Today, Healthline released the first three-dimensional, interactive, online search tool for the entire human body, BodyMaps ...
From CERIAS Blog
Sony, Congress, The Media and Me
Prelude As a researcher and educator, I regularly follow many newsletters, blogs and newsfeeds on a near daily basis. Some items I bookmark for my classes and research...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Sock Monkey Learns About Knitting and Algorithms
Here, Renee Ciezki is showing Sock Monkey how a knitting pattern is actually an algorithm. Renee is a member of the CSTA Leadership cohort. She teaches in Arizona...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A National Jukebox
The US Library of Congress has launched a 'national jukebox' from their huge collection of audio recordings. You can listen free, but not download. Nice idea, from...
From Schneier on Security
Medieval Tally Stick Discovered in Germany
Interesting: The well-preserved tally stick was used in the Middle Ages to count the debts owed by the holder in a time when most people were unable to read or...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wristband Measures Emotional Component
Affectiva is best known for its founding by Rosalind Picard of MIT. We worked with them to understand the emotional responses of people to products on a shelf. ...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Improve your impact with abundance-based design
People design all the time: new cars, new software, new houses. All design is guided by constraints (cost, time, materials, space) and by objectives (elegance,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Messy Analytics
The conclusion of a three part series on practical aspects of using analytical methods by Frank Buytendijk. I had missed the first two parts, but now plan to...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-05-10
Might Be Evil Firefox extension that allows you to keep your Google Docs private from Google if you want to. (tags: FireFox Google Docs Privacy) On Changing horses...
From Computational Complexity
Those Happy Samoans
Below is a post I wrote in 2009 but for some reason never made it to this blog. But I had better post it now because, as I found out via Tony Wirth, Samoa is moving...
From Schneier on Security
The Era of "Steal Everything"
Good comment: "We're moving into an era of 'steal everything'," said David Emm, a senior security researcher for Kaspersky Labs. He believes that cyber criminals...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Programming with C# and XNA 0.5: Jump Start
Pat Yongpradit, a talented young HS CS teacher I have written about before, has created a 5 week mini-course on game programming with XNA Game Studio. This course...
From Wild WebMink
? Launching OpenICF
I have a firm belief that open source software communities become strong when people with many different reasons for being present are free to meet their needs...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Getting Something from Nothing but from Someone
A post about my colleague Norm Levy, who I worked with in some particularly innovative projects at the big soap company (Procter & Gamble). Norm was a pioneerRhymes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Foursquare Testing NFC
In an interesting development, the game-checking environment has started to test the popular close-range RFID standard NFC. It will be curious to see what this...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Use and Impact of Neuromarketing
Ron Wright of Sands Research sends along a note on Oxford doing a study on the use and impact of neuromarketing. " ... Researchers at the University of Oxford...
From Geeking with Greg
Quick links
Some of what has caught my attention recently:Apple captured "a remarkable 50% value share of estimated Q1/11 handset industry operating profits among the top 8...
From The Eponymous Pickle