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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
Watson Jeopardy Competition Review
I saw the first half hour of this competition between two former Jeopardy champions and the Watson IBM Supercomputer. . Far too small a sample to make much ofIBM's...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alone Together
Just reading: Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other, by MIT technology and society prof Sherry Turkle. I have missed her...
From The Noisy Channel
Life
Heading to Punta Cana for a week. Feel free to keep writing great comments — will catch up when I get back!
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mining Published Research
Article on mining published research from the University of Chicago. Some intriguing ideas: " ... Metaknowledge researchers are using natural language processing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Book Citation App
A simple idea that has a smartphone App create citations for books in papers. The idea is good, though they say there are some issues with choosing the right style...
From Michael Nielsen
A logo for the Polymath wiki
The Polymath wiki needs a logo. Can you suggest or even design one?
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Value of Text Analytics
Good overview piece on the value of text analytics and current approaches. We started using it when it was still called content analysis and can vouch for its...
From Wild WebMink
? Why You Need Document Freedom
Document Freedom Day is March 30th this year. Why should you join in? See my article on ComputerWorldUK!
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Monday Morning Roundup
Several items of interest this Monday morning: President’s FY 2012 Budget Unveiled President Obama will reveal his
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of February 14
This week the President released his Fiscal Year 2012 budget request. As a result, there will be several events, many of them today, where federal agencies discuss...
From Computational Complexity
Can we Innovate without Producing?
On Friday I heard a speaker lament about how losing the manufacturing base in the US: "You can move a foundry easier than you can move an Internet company." An ...
From Schneier on Security
Credit Card Fraud Ring
It amazes me that credit card fraud is so easy that you can run it from prison.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 14 February 2011
Happy Valentines Day! Surely there is some appropriate computer project or connection for the day but I can’t think of one off hand. Can you? So for me, here are...
From Wild WebMink
? ForgeRock Starts Year Two With A Bang
ForgeRock was started in February 2010 and is now one year old. In its first year: ForgeRock did business with 35 customers in 10 countries Global turnover exceeded...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Significance of Watson and Jeopardy
In KurzweilAI: a good piece on the artificial intelligence of the upcoming Jeopardy challenge using the IBM Watson computer. Ray Kurzweil on the meaning of computer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SEO Gaming by JC Penney
Engadget comments on a NYT article on JC Penney gaming the search process of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) on Google Search. I fail to see how anything wrong...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
What Do You Need to Know About Computational Thinking?
The theme of the May CSTA Voice is "Computational Thinking." As I thought about what to include in this upcoming issue and reviewed some of the past CT work by...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Considering Wal-Mart Bias
The bizarre bias against Wal-Mart in the NYC area. I understand the arguments, but they are essentially against efficiency.
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-02-13
Document Freedom Day 2011 Don't for a second underestimate the importance of document formats – the way your files are stored by the program you use – in locking...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog