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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
Drug Stores Want to Own 'Well'
An interesting development: In Drug Store News:Walgreen is responding to the changing health care landscape by becoming "a retail health and daily living store,"...
From Schneier on Security
Albert Gonzalez
Long article on convicted hacker Albert Gonzalez from The New York Times Magazine.
From Apophenia
NOTICE: Email sabbatical will start December 9
If you don’t know me, you probably don’t know that I work obscene hours for most of the year and then take a proper vacation. As in no internet, no work, no geeking...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Presidential Early Career Awards
Lots of interesting stories this past week of relevance to the field: Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers On Tuesday, the White House announced...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pop-Up Stores in Action Today
In 2007 I got to see the operation of a Pop-Up store in action in Columbus, Ohio. An impressive mix of display, merchandising and interaction for the Swash brand...
From Wild WebMink
? Heart Of The Matter
Four Reasons To Pay Extra For Open Source My slides from today’s presentation in Bolzano, Italy. The core of the talk asserts that software freedom opens additional...
From Schneier on Security
Camouflaging Test Cars
Interesting: In an effort to shield their still-secret products from prying eyes, automakers testing prototype models, often in the desert and at other remote...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Lines Can Be Fun
Graphics can be a lot of fun for students. Well honestly they are fun for a lot of adults. Recently I read a blog post by Cate Huston (Experimenting with a Visual...
From Wild WebMink
? Freedom Means Value Essay
My essay explaining that software freedom means business value is now available from the Essays section.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Mining for Education
Learning how people make mistakes and using that mined information to determine the best way to teach them.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Spotfire Now on the iPad
I was an early user of Spotfire in the enterprise. Now it is good to see that they have modified it to the point that it can be used on an iPad. I have been hearing...
From Apophenia
Social Science PhD Internships at Microsoft Research New England (Spring & Summer 2011)
Microsoft Research New England (MSRNE) is looking for PhD interns to join the social media collective for Spring and Summer 2011. For these positions, we are looking...
From Schneier on Security
Bulletproof Service Providers
From Brian Krebs: Hacked and malicious sites designed to steal data from unsuspecting users via malware and phishing are a dime a dozen, often located in the United...
From The Eponymous Pickle
ECairn Wins Social Technology Award
From ECairn, which I have followed for some time:" ... Our joint case study with Adobe illustrates the highly differentiated benefits of a very targeted approach...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Pill Technology
The idea of putting an microchip in a pill has been around for some time. This is the first time I have seen the implementation getting close. There is concern...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Is a Software Architect Worthy of the Name?
I have a friend who is an architect (the kind that designs buildings instead of software). I was reminded recently of a conversation my husband and I had withThe...
From Computational Complexity
A Problem with Wikipedia and the Next Best Thing to Winning a Godel Prize
(There are TWO theory day events in NY this semsester: Nov 11, 2010 and Nov 12, 2010. The first one has likely already started as you read this.) I searched...
From Putting People First
Continuum Advanced Systems at the intersection of technology, systems and human-centered design
Continuum launched of a new division within its organization, known as Continuum Advanced Systems. Focused on the intersection of technology, systems and human-centered...
From Putting People First
How the cell phone is changing the world
In a very general overview article published in Newsweek, Ravi Somaiya reports on how the impact of the ubiquitous device extends from politics to business, medicine...
From Putting People First