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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 Female Perspective of Computer Science
One Positive Thing, Martial Arts, and Hitting the Proverbial Wall
The other day I read Cate's post on One Positive Thing:The power of sustained small achievements is underrated. If every day I did one positive thing for my health...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robonaut 2
Launched into space, a humanoid robot. Not sure what the humanoid aspects gets you exactly besides overblown implications about it 'thinking' and being autonomous...
From Putting People First
Videos of Interaction 11 Keynotes
Videos are now available for all seven Interaction11 keynote presentations. Interaction is a yearly conference organised by the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)...
From Schneier on Security
Interesting Research in Using Animals to Detect Substances
Fascinating research summarized in The Economist. Basically, detecting dogs respond to unconscious cues from their handlers, and generate false alarms becausebomb...
From Wild WebMink
? Owning The Problem?
Android Gingerbread update broke Google Voice on the Nexus One So this is Google’s update to Google’s operating system badly breaking Google’s app for interacting...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Student Develops Games For Windows Phone 7
Jakub Poznanski, Jake to most people, is studying computer science at Carnegie Mellon University. He was born in Bia?ystok, Poland, but has lived most of hishttp...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Post PC World
Engadget editorial about how Apple is creating a post-pc world. They are sure selling a lot of things. And doing that very well. But are they really new ideas? ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Four New CIO Types
In Readwriteweb: It is suggested that " ... Chief "Infrastructure" Officers, Chief "Integration" Officers, Chief "Intelligence" Officers, and Chief "Innovation"...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Recapping the Recent OECD-NSF Workshop on Smart Health
As we previously blogged in this space (here and here), approximately 130 individuals — including 43 speakers — from 16 countries around the world came together...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
New XNA Jump Start Mini-course
Microsoft recently released a new XNA Jump Start Mini-course. Programming with C# and XNA 0.5: Jump Start is an exciting and engaging 4-5-week introduction...
From Computational Complexity
Greetings from Porto
Today we just finished the thesis defense of Andre Souto at University of Porto. Good News: He passed the defense so now we call him Dr. Souto. Better news: By...
From Michael Nielsen
TEDxWaterloo
I’m speaking today about open science at the TEDxWaterloo event, just outside Toronto. I’m really looking forward to the event, and to all the talks – I’m especially...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A New Kind of Consulting
Of interest, related to my recent note on social networks in the enterprise. CapGemini is reorganizing to use social networks to do consulting. Also, consultancy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
RStudio for R
RStudio: A new IDE (Integrated Development Environment) that looks to make coding easier for the open source statistics language R. Much more here.
From Schneier on Security
Pickpockets are a Dying Breed
Pickpockets in America are dying out. This is the bit I found interesting: And perhaps most important, the centuries-old apprenticeship system underpinning organized...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The Body As Mouse
Hopefully you have heard of the Kinect for Xbox 360 by now. Perhaps you even have one. Millions of them have been sold and it has really started to change how we...
From Wild WebMink
? Open Source Procurement: Subscriptions
When you procure proprietary software, you buy a right-to-use license and then a support agreement. But when you buy open source, you already have the right-to-use...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Is Social Networking in Business a Revolution?
Social networking in the enterprise. What exactly is its value there? Is it way to improve productivity via more transparent communications. Or is a waste of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Comparing ShopSavvy and RedLaser Barcode Readers
I just received an update for the ShopSavvy barcode reader for my IPhone 4 Smartphone. I was able to do a quick comparison with the RedLaser barcode reader on...
From Computational Complexity