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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 U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
ACM Washington Update Vol. 15.2 (March 16 2011)
CONTENTS [1] Newsletter Highlights [2] 2010 ACM A.M Turing Award Recognizes Les Valiant [3] USACM Supports Defense Against FY '11 Cuts [4] USACM Comments on Federal...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Governments Should Stop Funding Higher Education
Everyone knows that publicly funded education is good. Right? Wait! Why? “Education has substantial non-financial benefits.” This argument assumes that people who...
From Schneier on Security
Hacking ATM Users by Gluing Down Keys
Clever hack: The thieves glue down the "enter," "cancel" and "clear" buttons on the keypad and wait until the customer goes into the bank for help before withdrawing...
From Wild WebMink
? OSI Governance Landmark
You’ll recall about this time last year I was honoured to join the OSI Board and expressed hopes OSI could move towards representative governance. Well, I spent...
From Putting People First
Social media, internet, technology and museums
The New York Times has published no less than eight articles at once on the topic of social media, internet, technology and museums. Note the article about the...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Kodu Cup 2011
Create a new game with Kodu and you could win $5,000 for yourself and your school and lots of great technology! Welcome to the Microsoft Kodu Cup: A...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What is the Legacy of Your Online Data?
Revelatory piece in Popular Mechanics on this mostly overlooked aspect of data privacy. Bottom line, it is unclear: ' ... Our lives are inundated with more data...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Scanning a Barcode to Save your Place in Line
A simple clever idea in Mashable: " ... Scan QR codes to save your place on multiple wait lists.Proving that nine guys can successfully launch a startup in 48 hours...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Oracle Mobile Client for Supply Chain
New on Oracle and Supply Chains. I like that these systems are being delivered for mobile use. Linking to sensors and other real time connections makes sense...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Building Bosses
Google, using analytical methods, discovers that it is listening and asking good questions that are better qualities of a manager than having deep technical experise...
From Computational Complexity
TAMC conference accepts are out/What does a name tell you about a general theory conference?
The TAMC conference list-of-accepts is posted here. TAMC stands for Theory and Application of Models of Computation. For general theory conferences does theFoundations...
From Putting People First
Faculty openings in design & human engineering at UNIST in Korea
In December Experientia signed a five-year research and education collaboration agreement with the Design and Human Engineering School (DHE) of the Ulsan National...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-03-16
GNU Free Call Announced This looks like an excellent initiative to create a decentralised voice-over-Internet service. Timely and necessary. (tags: Telephony FOSS...
From Schneier on Security
Hacking Cars with MP3 Files
Impressive research: By adding extra code to a digital music file, they were able to turn a song burned to CD into a Trojan horse. When played on the car's stereo...
From Putting People First
Why user experience cannot be designed
Helge Fredheim wrote a smart article in Smashing Magazine to clarify why UX cannot be designed. “Several models of UX have been suggested, some of which are based...
From Putting People First
How honest should smart devices be?
David Sherwin reflects on the frog design blog about the SXSW conference, starting from the questions raised in the contribution by Genevieve Bell (director of...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Rebirth of DIY Software Development
In the heady, exciting, almost wild West atmosphere of the early days of PCs it seemed like almost everyone I knew was writing software in hopes of making a little...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Mobile Updated
I see that the Google mobile App for the IPhone and iPad have been updated to include a much easier to use interface. More here. Works particularly well for searching...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Honesty of Smart Devices
How Honest should a smart device be? In Design Mind. Cultural anthropologists look at the interaction of devices, data and the expectations of human behavior...
From Putting People First