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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
Open Source Location Service
In ReadwriteWeb: " ... Until now, Ushahidi has been most known as a service for reporting location during times of crisis ... Today, the company has taken a bit...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Turing Award Winner
The 2010 Turing Award goes to a Harvard researcher in machine learning:, much more here: ACM has named Leslie G. Valiant of Harvard University the winner of the...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
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Ed Seidel, NSF’s Assistant Director for Mathematical and Physical Sciences and formerly the Director of the Foundation’s Office of Cyberinfrastructure,
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Resources for Teaching Security
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From The Eponymous Pickle
FourSquare Grows Up and Serves up Promotions
I have updated my mobile version of Foursquare, after having become disenchanted with the location based check-in game aspect. GigaOm posts on the new suggestion...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
2010 ACM A.M. Turing Award Recognizes Les Valiant
Les Valiant, the T. Jefferson Coolidge Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has been recognized...
From The Eponymous Pickle
QR Media Site
A useful site on many aspects of QR codes, applications and related topics. Note their article on Macy's QR Code campaign.
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Met a Girl from My First Ever Mini-Course Yesterday
I went to Almonte and District High School yesterday for a pilot project called Futures Fair. Community members were invited to give workshops and mock university...
From Putting People First
Repost: Reflections on the LIFT conference 2011
Two weeks ago, Core77 published my review of the LIFT conference in Geneva, Switzerland. In the interest of completeness, I also publish it here: All images by...
From Putting People First
Why Nokia failed:
Controversial British columnist Andrew Orlowski published a long investigating article on Nokia’s failure to build its own smartphone platform. “When Nokia CEO...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Building It and Getting the Shopper to Buy it
Herb Sorensen, well known retail scientist publishes an interesting article in Views: If you build it, they will NOT come! An evidence-based quantitative view...
From Computational Complexity
STOC 1989
A student at Northwestern gave a presentation about a STOC 1989 paper. I've been to well over a hundred conferences and the memories of many just merge into each...
From Putting People First
Addressing poverty through human-centered design
A few days ago the global innovation firm IDEO announced its commitment to apply design-thinking to address poverty with the launch of IDEO.org this fall. Of course...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What Is Computer Science All About
One of the big questions that comes up time and again is “what is computer science all about?” Get a bunch of computer science people in a room and you’ll get almost...
From Schneier on Security
Full Body Scanners
Wired.com has a good three-part story on full-body scanners.
From Putting People First
Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces
DPPI 11, the 5th conference on Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces, will take place in Milan, Italy this year and Experientia partner Mark Vanderbeeken...
From Wild WebMink
? Parallel Filing
In the future, where will most of the patents that patent trolls use come from? Find out in my article today on ComputerWorldUK.
From Putting People First
Experientia partner jury lead at Core77 Design Awards
Experientia partner Mark Vanderbeeken will be one of 15 international Jury Captains for the inaugural year of the Core77 Design Awards. The Core77 Design Awards...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Your EMail Domain Says About You
Fascinating blog post in Hunchblog about what your choice of domain says about your demographics. This is surprisingly important, it has been used by the enterprise...
From Geeking with Greg