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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 U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM Comments on Proposed Web Accessibility Rules
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was passed in 1990, and did not address the Internet. However, the Department of Justice established, most notably through...
From Wild WebMink
? The Open-By-Rule Governance Benchmark
With Oracle’s OpenJDK Project about to announce new community governance, many people have asked what I look for in good open source project and community governance...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Shelf Life of Great Ideas
In VentureBeat/Entrepreneur Corner: Some interesting startup lessons and ideas. These are the kinds of ideas that aim to set the stage, and are to a large degree...
From Schneier on Security
Me on Color-Coded Terrorist Threat Levels
I wrote an op-ed for CNN.com on the demise of the color-coded terrorist theat level system. It's nothing I haven't said before, so I won't reprint it here. The...
From Wild WebMink
? Rebooting Procurement
European Commission consults on the modernisation of the European Public Procurement Market The European Commission’s consultation is in progress until April. It...
From Wild WebMink
? Sirius News
When we started last year, it was thrilling to see how many companies responded when we asked who would be interested in reselling ForgeRock subscriptions, consulting...
From Putting People First
New encyclopedia on interactive design, usability and user experience
The people behind Interaction-Design.org introduced a new type of top-quality and free encyclopedia dealing with Interactive Design, Usability, and User Experience...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Recursive Loops
Last week I wrote about loops and how some students seem to have trouble with them. On the link to it from Facebook one friend of mine asked
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Network Connector from IBM
I have talked to IBM several times about their development of social connectivity software. What I saw, developed for internal use, was impressive. Now they have...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
WISE Steps to Success a Big Success
Last Wednesday CU-WISE held a professional development event called WISE Steps to Success for a second year. It's one of our flagship events, and was designedsee...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Thinking About Summer Camps
Now that the new year has arrived, it is time to start looking forward to the summer and computer camps. Last year, I ran my first computer camp for twenty-two...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Not Even Eventually Consistent
Many databases engines ensure consistency: at any given time, the database state is logically consistent. For example, even if you receive purchase requests by...
From Computational Complexity
Is Cheminformatics the new Bioinformatics? (Guest Post by Aaron Sterling)
Chemoinformatics for Computer Scientists Guest Post by Aaron Sterling I recently completed a review of Handbook of Chemoinformatics Algorithms (HCA)here...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Need Help? Expert Help Available.
I wanted to remind my readers that I am a consultant. I have over thirty years of experience with major companies and the US government. I have saved companies...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of January 31
January 31 Event: The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation will host an event on the bandwidth cost of online piracy. noon, 1101 K Street NW February...
From Wild WebMink
? New Moves
Jenkins! By a massive margin (214 to 14) the Hudson community has decided to rename itself Jenkins and rehost on independent resources. I just hope Oracle decides...
From Schneier on Security
Jury Says it's Okay to Record the TSA
The Seattle man who refused to show ID to the TSA and recorded the whole incident has been cleared of all charges: [The jury] returned not guilty verdicts forPapers...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 31 January 2011
Well my busy season is about to begin. Next week I will be in Austin TX for TCEA. I will be doing some talks and demos about Small Basic and hanging around thetaken...
From Wild WebMink
? New OpenDJ Architect
Last week I broke the news that ForgeRock (where I work) had gained an architect for OpenIDM. Today is the last day of ForgeRock’s first year, and I’m pleased to...
From The Eponymous Pickle