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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 The Eponymous Pickle
Axatra
Was just introduced to Axatra, a company that develops cloud-based solutions. See their site for more about their custom development capabilities.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Frans Kaashoek to Receive ACM-Infosys Foundation Award
Frans Kaashoek, a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (and a current member of the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Energy Saving IT in Manufacturing
Short HBR piece on smart energy saving in manufacturing at GM. In my own experience in manufacturing, similar things had been done for years. Yet it is good that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Flipping Education
Watch videos at home, then have limited class time for help with a teacher. A TED video. Overall not a bad idea. The social dynamics of teacher and student...
From Wild WebMink
? Android
Amazon.com lets you play with an Android virtual machine, try apps before you buy them I’ve installed Amazon’s AppStore on my Android phone and I’m finding it much...
From Schneier on Security
Federated Authentication
New paper by Ross Anderson: "Can We Fix the Security Economics of Federated Authentication?": There has been much academic discussion of federated authentication...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Projects
It seems as though teachers are always looking for new projects to use with students. Projects get stale (at least to a teacher who has been grading lots of them...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smartphones and Shopping
Chief Marketer dissects a recent study of smartphones for retail. The overall conclusion is they are in heavy use for information gathering. This study includes...
From Computational Complexity
An unusual Voting Scheme
(I want to thank Bobby Kleinberg for bringing this to my attention.) Consider the following voting scheme Choose a random person A1. A1 chooses a set at...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of March 28
UPDATE: The March 29 hearing on cyber attacks has been postponed. No new date has been scheduled. March 29 Hearing: The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Admitting Failure
Charlene Li in the HBR, on the art of admitting failure.
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-03-28
U.S. Develops 'Panic Button' for Democracy Activists – NYTimes.com Amazing they can say all this without noting that the very same technique used by an individual...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Agile Data Integration
What is agile data integration?, and how do you do it? Good overview in BeyeNetwork by Ralph Hughes that lists alternatives and describes directions.
From The Eponymous Pickle
BBC Dimensions
A simple BBC site that allows you to graphicaly deal with relative sizes: " ... Dimensions takes important places, events and things, and overlays them onto a...
From Schneier on Security
Biliteral Ciphers
Interesting article on William Friedman and biliteral ciphers.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 28 March 2011
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Library Augmented Reality for Grocery Shelves
Found this Readwriteweb article on book shelf placement to be interesting. I have worked with libraries on catalog systems. It is not only libraries where things...
From The Noisy Channel
Steal These Ideas!
Talk is cheap, as the saying goes. That’s a good thing, since I am always overflowing with ideas that I have neither the time (I love my day job!) nor the money...
From Wild WebMink