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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 Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Whack Something Game for Windows Phone 7
The last several yeas the University of New Hampshire has put on a
From Wild WebMink
? The Threat Of Parallel Filing
When we consider software patents, it’s easy to believe they are something outside the open source communities. Mentally, many of us model them as a weapon belonging...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Corning's Glass House
We developed a 'Home of the Future' back in '00 .... and have always been interested how the home would evolve to integrate internet technologies. We saw Phillips...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bam Analytics
I have been looking for a good App to run site analytics on mobile. I found BAM Analytics, which the reviews claimed worked well for Running Google Analytics on...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Converging Disciplines in Analytics
In SASCom, a review of Tom Davenport's talk on converging analytics in analytics, from Analytics World. Largely obvious, but worth looking at.
From Computational Complexity
Update on 17x17 problem
Long time readers may recall that 17x17 problem that I posted on Nov 30, 2009 here. I am sometimes asked if the problem is still open. Alas it is. Is the bounty...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unilever Augments Reality in a London Train Station
An intriguing experiment with augmented reality ideas by consumer goods giant Unilever. Seems mostly stunt-like but probably got lots of local attention. This...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-03-17
White House wants new copyright law crackdown | Privacy Inc. – CNET News This repeated lack of balance and failure to consider the overall cultural and technical...
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