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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
Crowd Sourcing Systems
In the ACM: An excellent and broad article on the the use of crowd sourcing. Includes some interesting updates on Amazon's Mechanical Turk. Must reading for those...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Coming Convergence of Big Data and Predicitive Analytics
Data is surging and everyone is seeking to leverage it in new and better ways, In ITBusiness Edge:" ... As it becomes more affordable to collect massive amounts...
From The Eponymous Pickle
RFID Badge Networking
Wizard Studios CEO C. Russell Brumfield, who we hosted at the innovation center for scent marketing methods, is marketing a new people communications device for...
From Wild WebMink
? Futures
Why I Left Rackspace and What About Openstack I’m still a fan of OpenStack but Rick’s evaluation worries me. I hope there’s someone still at NASA or rackspace that...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
US Imagine Cup People
The Imagine Cup is the premier student technology competition in he world. Yeah, I get excited about it. The US finalists in the Software Design Invitationalhttp...
From Schneier on Security
Threats vs. Vulnerabilities
I found this article on the difference between threats and vulnerabilities to be very interesting. I like his taxonomy.
From Putting People First
Experientia partner on EDF Sustainable Design Challenge jury
Experientia partner Mark Vanderbeeken has been invited to be a member of the technical committee for the EDF Sustainable Design Challenge: Changing energy together...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Latitude Gets Checkin/Out
The Google mobile application for the Android and now for the IPhone called Latitude allows you to share information about you and any group on the Web. Had always...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Physics of a Flower's Bloom
Mathematicians build a model of flowers' blooming. An unexpected and magical thing. I hope this kind of modeling has other applications. Surely it must have...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Patty Azzarello on Succeeding While Loving Life
The Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology (ABI for short) Board of Advisers meeting last week was really inspirational. On the morning of the second day...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Policy Highlights from Communications of the ACM - December 2010 (Vol. 53, No. 12)
Below is a list of items with policy relevance from the December issue of Communications of the ACM. As always, much of the material in CACM is premium content,...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson