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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
Copyrights vs Human Rights
My article on how human rights trump copyrights is now available in the Essays section.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sloppy Arithmetic is Useful
In ACM: Some surprising results regarding the value of imprecise arithmetic and chips that can calculate imprecisely. Good article about potential applications...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Motorola Splits
The split of the 83 year old company in two pieces is seen in a number of different ways. We worked with them in the early days of RFID and they provided some...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
ACM Washington Update Vol. 14.5 (January 2011)
CONTENTS [1] Newsletter Highlights [2] FCC Draws Line in the Net Neutrality Sand [3] Computer Science Education Week Extends its Reach [4] USACM Vice Chair Felten...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Linkless Press Releases
Why do many press releases not include links to useful information, in particular to the release itself and the companies involved? Has always mystified me. Here...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
If human population grew at the pace of computer storage
Between 1990 and 2010, the cost of one megabyte of disk storage went from $9 to $0.00015. Had the human population followed a similar growth, there would be 300...
From Schneier on Security
Guard Towers at WalMart
This feels very creepy and police-state-like. What on earth could WalMart be worried about?
From The Eponymous Pickle
Knowledge Management in Fast Moving Industries
In HBR, a good article that scopes out various approaches for knowledge management. How formal do these approaches have to be? Or can they just observe in the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Getting Linked Data to Market
Article about this course is dated, but worth a look as to the direction of this work. I had always seen this as the most immediately useful aspect of the semantic...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
IBM
While many of us were enjoying time off last week, our colleagues at IBM were busy unveiling their fifth annual “Five in Five” — a list of five technology innovations...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-01-04
ACTA blog by FFII Useful reference point for information about the progress of ACTA, worth bookmarking. (tags: ACTA FFII Blog) The Ultimate Patent Troll Patent:...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Imagine Cup News January 20111
Are you back at school yet? Hope you had a good holiday break. I know I did. The other day I got the Imagine Cup newsletter via email and thought that this might...
From The Noisy Channel
So You Like Big Data
The increasing volume of data that we generate as a species is a story so overplayed as to have become trite. Indeed, a vast amount of this data is in the public...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data Scientists
In the Noisy Channel: About data scientists, what they hve been doing lately and their relationships to the increasing amounts of data all of us have been generating...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Algorithmic Thinking and Computational Linguistics
The Algorithms and Linguistics page (http://www.education.rec.ri.cmu.edu/fire/naclo/) on The FIRE Project website is a site that introduces younger students to...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Pseudocontext in Computer Science
Can you imagine a programming assignment or example where "common sense and real-world knowledge are not needed"? Math teacher (and now PhD student in education)...
From Computational Complexity
What is a breakthrough? Lets have an intelligent discussion!!!!!!
In 2010 this blog announced the following Breakthrough!!!! results: (Listed chronologically.) Better Algorithms for Unique Games, by Arora, Barak, Steurer. (We...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Snap a Picture, Save a Stream
Creek Watch. A simple Smart Water effort via IBM uses a mobile phone application to gather data about stream conditions. Simple smart sensor application. It does...
From Schneier on Security