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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 Female Perspective of Computer Science
Traditional and Software Architects are Even Closer than You Think
I received a comment on Is a Software Architect Worthy of the Name? via email from Lourens Veen, a software architect for a project at the University of Amsterdam...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Collaboratively Watching Videos
Download squad shows a way to watch a video with friends using Youtube Social. I can see this also being used to rate a commercial with a group of consumers, or...
From Schneier on Security
Airplane Terrorism Twenty Years Ago
Excellent: Here's a scenario: Middle Eastern terrorists hijack a U.S. jetliner bound for Italy. A two-week drama ensues in which the plane's occupants are split...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAP's in Memory Analytics vs Neteeza?
Some interesting points here about SAP and Netezza. Set for release in November.
From Computational Complexity
Eleven Tweets from GASARCH
I don't do tweets-I don't think I have enough interesting 140-char notes to tell people (though that doesn't stop Lance). However, several tweet-worthy notes did...
From Wild WebMink
Contributor Agreements Say You
The conversation around LWN’s coverage of Michael Meeks’ talk at the Linux Plumbers Conference (sadly paywalled until now but available today and worth reading...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-11-18
Should Companies That Use Open Source Software Pay a Tithe? They should certainly budget to obtain service and ensure they pay the companies and people that make...
From Schneier on Security
Unsolicited Terrorism Tips to the U.S. Government
Adding them all up, the U.S. government "receives between 8,000 and 10,000 pieces of information per day, fingering just as many different people as potential threats...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Global Businesses Align to Provide Accurate Consumer Data
I am surprised this has not been done methodically long ago. It is becoming very important as shoppers need to get accurate data in-store. It is also key for...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
You probably misunderstand XML
When I took my current position, I was invited to teach a course on unstructured data. It is a sensible topic for a course: some say that between 80% to 90% of...
From Putting People First
Michele Visciola on online healthcare information
Michele Visciola, Experientia partner, gave a talk last Sunday on online healthcare information at the 16th IFHRO (International Federation of Health Records Organizations)...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Forbes on R Software
In the Forbes blog. Excellent article on the open source R statistical package. The visualization capabilities are emphasized. I agree that it is the package...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Coupon Use Soars
In Progressive Grocer, an overview article on the increasing use of digital coupons, with quite a few useful statistics. With the increasing use of smartphones...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Adjusting Your Google Privacy
In Ars Technica, an article about the many privacy settings available for Google users. I use many Google services and am concerned about the privacy I give up...
From Wild WebMink
? RAND: Not So Reasonable
Fair, Reasonable, Non-Discriminatory – surely that all has to be good stuff?
From Schneier on Security
New Biometric
Eye movements instead of eye structures. The new system tracks the way a person's eye moves as he watches an icon roam around a computer screen. The way the icon...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Wisdom in Lists
Like a lot of people I have an affection for lists that condense a lot of wisdom into a brief set of statements or items. Some time ago I wrote a series of posts...
From The Noisy Channel
An Information Cascade
I’ve been reading Networks, Crowds, and Markets, a great textbook by David Easley and Jon Kleinberg. I’m very grateful to Cambridge University Press for surprising...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Standard for Supercomputing
In the CACM: Sandia Labs will be delivering a new proposed set of standards for Supercomputing today which is more closely related to the kinds of tasks that are...
From The Eponymous Pickle