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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 Schneier on Security
Cost-Benefit Analysis of Full-Body Scanners
Research paper from Mark Stewart and John Mueller: The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has been deploying Advanced Imaging Technologies (AIT) that...
From Computational Complexity
Does Tiger Woods know what Venn Diagram is?
In prior blogs I noted that the terms Turing Test and Prisoner's Dilemma have been used in articles for non-math people. In the age of Google people can look...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Chance to Provide Feedback on Federal CS Policies for K-12
The federal government asks for advice about education fairly regularly. But it isn't often that it asks specifically what is needed to advance K-12 computer science...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alone Together
A teaser for a review of Sherry Turkels book: Along Together in Kurzwel AI. I anticipate reading the book. " ... Sherry Turkle, the widely noted MIT professor...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Who Will Pay?
Essay on who will pay for content. Advertisers or the consumer? Will the emergence of new devices start a move away from the free Web content model? If the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
HBR on Managing Innovation
I have worked with many o the technologies mentioned here. They include a number that I would call analytical, but serve to analyze proposed innovations. These...
From Schneier on Security
Do Corporations Have a Right to Privacy?
This week, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments about whether or not corporations have the same rights to "personal privacy" that individuals do. Thisbrief...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Microsoft Math 4.0 and more
Something for the math teachers out there
From Wild WebMink
? OSI and FSF Collaborate In DoJ Referral
Before Christmas I reported that the Open Source Initiative (OSI) had written to the German Federal Cartel Office (FCO) asking them to investigate the acquisition...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Starbucks Extends Mobile Payments
In Computerworld: We move towards mobile as a wallet: " ...Starbucks extends mobile payments to 7,500 stores, System scans barcodes installed on iPhone, BlackBerry...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predictions for the Worldwide Supply Chain
Some predictions for the worldwide supply chain. These are interesting not because I think they will all become true, but they cover some areas that are worth...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Tell The Government What You Think about K-12 Computer Science Education
Cameron Wilson of the ACM has a new blog post (Let the Feds Know Your Thoughts on K-12 Computer Science Education | blog@CACM | Communications of the ACM) about...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Why Companies are Ditching Spreadsheets
In CWorld: Short, useful piece on the move by some companies away from the use of spreadsheets. Dangers and implications.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Content Rules
Paul Gillin reviews the new book: Content Rules, by C.C. Chapman and Ann Handley as a desktop reference for social marketers. On the reading list.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Book review: Statistical Analysis with R
The programming language R is a standard for statisticians. And it is free software which runs on Windows, Mac and Linux. You can learn much online about R, but...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Let the Feds Know Your Thoughts on K-12 Computer Science Education
The federal government asks for advice about education fairly regularly. But it isn't often that it asks specifically what is needed to advance K-12 computer science...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-01-19
People's Choice Award 2010 – opensource.com The OpenSource.Com website that Red Hat run is having a ballot to select the top contributor for 2010 – vote now! (tags...
From Schneier on Security
Odd Art Forger
He's not in it for the money: Mr. Landis...has been one of the most prolific forgers American museums have encountered in years, writing, calling and presenting...
From The Noisy Channel
Internship Opportunities at LinkedIn
Do you love big data? Do you enjoy applying your skills in data mining, machine learning, information retrieval and data visualization? Are you a hands-on implementer...
From The Eponymous Pickle