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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
Posterous App Group Management
Posterous has announced updates to its mobile apps, for both iOS and Android. The updated versions of the apps bring support for creating and managing Posterous...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Learning from Operations Research
In The Atlantic, a short post on using what is called 'Operations Research', and the value it has added to the efficiency of industry since WWII, improving everyone's...
From Schneier on Security
Video Interview with Me
This three-part video interview with me was conducted at the RSA Conference last month.
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-03-11
Press Release: OpenLogic Scan Shows Open Source License Violations for iPhone and Android While OpenLogic understandably has an interest in promoting their services...
From Schneier on Security
FBI and the Future of Wiretapping
Last month I posted Susan Landau's testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security on government eavesdropping...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Top Read Posts February 2011
When I look at the blog statistics for this blog I am often surprised. Surprised because some posts that I expect a lot from get ignored while others get more attention...
From Putting People First
Ethnography: Caught between myths
Qualitative researchers in the commercial sphere often feel they can only do
From Wild WebMink
? Is Apache Open-By-Rule?
The Apache Software Foundation is probably the most respected open source code community. Host to nearly 100 massively important projects like httpd, Subversion...
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