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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 Wild WebMink
? Nokia Dooming Windows Phone?
There’s plenty of talk about how Nokia’s embrace of Microsoft’s Windows Phone has doomed Nokia. But has Nokia’s embrace actually doomed Windows Phone? Read my views...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Begone Movement
Begone. A movement to make it easy to get off of mailing lists promoted by Forrester's Josh Bernoff. Nice idea, we need it, but I wonder if the marketers will...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Live blogging the NSF-OECD Smart Health Workshop, Day 2
Day 2 of the two-day
From Schneier on Security
Romanian Hackers
Interesting article from Wired: "How a Remote Town in Romania Has Become Cybercrime Central."
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Triangle Shooter
Kenny Spade is a Microsoft Academic Developer Evangelist out in California who has been writing a series of blog posts that help one learn how to write a Windows...
From Putting People First
Paul Dourish and Genevieve Bell on ubicomp mythology
Divining a Digital Future: Mess and Mythology in Ubiquitous Computing Paul Dourish and Genevieve Bell MIT Press, April 2011, 264 pages ISBN 978-0-262-01555-4 264...
From Wild WebMink
? Is Eclipse Open-By-Rule?
The Eclipse Foundation is home to a family of projects related to enterprise software development. Its Executive Director Mike Milinkovic has very kindly supplied...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Publishing in the Digital Era
Fascinating statistics and surveys in this study by Bain & Company: Publishing in the digital era by Bain partner Patrick B
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unified Intelligence from Attivio
Had to miss this today, but find it interesting:Unified Intelligence: Closing the Loop on Unstructured Data, by James Taylor of AttivioAnd here's a link to a PDF...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Calculating the Amount of Information in the World
In Engadget: An overview of a USC Annenberg study. Quite a few exabytes, and growing. The current capacity for digital is about 295 exabytes they say ... An...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Progress in Artificial Intelligence
A good non technical overview of the progress of AI in the NYT. Quite naturally people have hopes and fears of this world. The broad expectations of the early...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Organizational Design and Structure
A post in the HBR on the importance of thinking about organization.
From Schneier on Security
The Seven Types of Hackers
Roger Grimes has an article describing "the seven types of malicious hackers." I generally like taxonomies, and this one is pretty good. He says the seven types...
From Apophenia
Tweeting teens can handle public life
Alice Marwick and I co-authored this piece for The Guardian. The Press Complaints Commission in the UK has now ruled that there is no “reasonable expectation” of...
From Putting People First
Documentary highlights how Programma 101 put people first
The upcoming documentary Programma 101
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Communication and Presentation Skills in Computer Science
In my TA workshop yesterday on communication skills, we had a discussion/brainstorm session that I captured in a document (shown on the projector) as we went along...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computing Education and Education Reform
One of my frustrations these days is that with all the talk of education reform there is not much talk about computing education in that mix. It is as if people...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Building a Smarter Health & Wellness Future [live blog]
As noted in this space last week,
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-02-15
With A Little Help: The Early Returns Excellent and honest account from Cory of his experiment in self-publishing. From reading this it's clear that there is still...
From Schneier on Security