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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
Unusual Uses of QR Codes
In the AisleBuyer Blog: Another Type of Barcode: QR Codes and Their Unusual Uses Also see more about what AisleBuyer does. " ... Meet the World
From The Eponymous Pickle
Streetview from a Tricycle
Google uses Tricycles, albeit very unusual ones, to get a streetview in parks and footpaths. I like the experience being gathered by gathering data from human...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Great Canadian Appathon
Carleton's Game Development Club is one of six host schools for the upcoming Great Canadian Appathon:The Great Canadian Appathon is a chance for post-secondarysoftware...
From Schneier on Security
NIST SHA-3 News
NIST has finally published its rationale for selecting the five finalists.
From Wild WebMink
? Corporate Fictions
BSA: Open standards will ‘increase e-government costs’ I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised by this, but I am shocked at just how blatantly disdainful BSA are of...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Register Now for CSTA's Annual CS&IT Conference 2011
You are cordially invited to attend the 11h annual Computer Science & Information Technology Symposium at Columbia University Faculty House in New York, NY! July...
From Wild WebMink
? Is Mozilla Open-By-Rule?
Host to the Firefox browser and the Thunderbird mail client among many other projects, the Mozilla Foundation is one of the largest and most significant open source...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Debate on Patent Reform
The debate on US patent reform will begin in the Senate. My own limited interaction with Patents says we need it. CW Article.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Congressman Rush Holt beats Watson at Jeopardy!
Congressman Rush Holt of New Jersey – the only physicist in Congress, one of the staunchest Congressional supporters of science, recipient of this year’s Philip...
From Putting People First
Discussing ethnography at University College London
Experientia partner Mark Vanderbeeken will be giving a talk tomorrow at 6 pm, as a part of the Digital Anthropology MSc course at University College London (UCL)...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Buyology Inc's New Website
I see that neuromarketing company: BuyologyInc has a new website. I have done consulting work with them in the past. Much better done and more informative site than...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Moonlighting Within the Enterprise
Liked this NYT article: Moonlighting Within Microsoft, in Pursuit of New Apps Admittedly it would work best in the technical enterprise, where you can slice off...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gestural Interfaces on the Street
An example of gestural interactivity with a screen in store. We examined early attempts at this kind of interaction on the store shelf. This appears to be increasing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AT&T Launches ShopAlerts
It is surprising that this kind of location based promotion service was not launched sooner. Readwriteweb posts a good overview: ' ... The difference between ...
From Schneier on Security
Erasing Data from Flash Drives
"Reliably Erasing Data From Flash-Based Solid State Drives," by Michael Wei, Laura M. Grupp, Frederick E. Spada, and Steven Swanson. Abstract: Reliably erasing...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
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From Wild WebMink
? Memorable Links
Looking through the list of domain names I’ve acquired over the years, I realised I had a couple that weren’t well used that could be handy for people who want...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
What's Happening in CS in Other Countries
I am part of the organisation that trains and selects students to represent New Zealand at the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI). We attract some government...
From The Eponymous Pickle