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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
New MIT Media Lab Director Interview
We were part of the media lab for a few years and I led a number of tours through the facility. It was good to hear of the changes. Anything that could bring...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cell Tower in a Suitcase
AT&T has started to sell what is being called a 'cell tower in a suitcase'. At a cost of between $15-45K, plus monthly fees. We examined something similar for...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
DreamSpark, AppHub and Windows Phone Development
So are your graduating high school seniors bored? or perhaps you are still looking for things to do after the AP CS exam. or maybe you know college or high school...
From Computational Complexity
Ravi Kannan wins the Knuth Prize
Ravi Kannan will receive the 2011 Knuth Prize for his algorithmic work, including approximating volumes of high-dimensional convex objects, computing the Frobenius...
From Michael Nielsen
Polymath wiki logo
Many people have contributed striking logos for the Polymath wiki. It seems to me that there’s now enough suggestions to have a good conversation about which logo...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
CS Sock Monkey Begins Work
Today, CS Sock Monkey launched an important initiative to support and promote computer science education in K-12. In this role, Sock Monkey will have the opportunity...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Toward an Open mHealth Ecosystem
The following is a special contribution to this blog by Deborah Estrin, Professor of Computer Science and Founding Director of the NSF-funded Center for Embedded...
From Schneier on Security
Security Risks of Running an Open WiFi Network
As I've written before, I run an open WiFi network. It's stories like these that may make me rethink that. The three stories all fall along the same theme: a...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Marketers Need to Know About QR Barcodes
A good introduction to QR codes by Angie Schottmuller in Search Engine Watch. Pointers to basic considerations, vendors. mobile use and cases. Well done.
From The Eponymous Pickle
General Mills Experiments with Groupon
Covered broadly in the last few days. The first consumer packaged goods company to try this. This is an example of a manufacturer going around retailers alsoAlso...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Santa Fe Institute Looks at Behavior via Phones
Stan Dyck, colleague and correspondent, sends this along. The implications for modeling behavior are very great. Quoted from the WSJ below. Nathan Eaglewas mentioned...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Fabric Designs
Some of these are actually nice.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Algorithmic Pricing on Amazon
I love the aspect of automatically building interactions. The first step in artificial intelligence. But caution is always important. Here is an example of building...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quick Ways to Liven Up Your Twitter Feed
Ways to liven up twitter feed, with a number of business examples. Fairly good. Though still I think mostly playing to the weaknesses of Twitter itself.
From Geeking with Greg
Resurgence of interest in personalized information
There has been a lot of news about personalization and recommendations of information in the last week.Google News launched additional implicit personalizationFindory...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Educational Games That Teach Computer Science
There has been an increased interest in educational games lately — especially those that truly give the player a deeper understanding of a topic but are still fun...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Look at Nokia's Collapse
We visited Nokia's innovation group back in the 90s and were very impressed. They were the big disrupters then. Yet today they have been unable to credibly respond...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
An Interagency Multiscale Modeling Initiative
The Interagency Multiscale Modeling and Analysis Group (IMAG) — comprising program staff from NIH, NSF, DoE, DoD, NASA, USDA, and the VA — announced earlier this...
From Schneier on Security
Hard-Drive Steganography through Fragmentation
Clever: Khan and his colleagues have written software that ensures clusters of a file, rather than being positioned at the whim of the disc drive controller chip...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson