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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
Crime Prediction Software
Shades of a movie I saw a while back: " ... Soon, people will be able to discover criminals long before they do any harm, with the help of new crime prediction...
From Schneier on Security
Firesheep
Firesheep is a new Firefox plugin that makes it easy for you to hijack other people's social network connections. Basically, Facebook authenticates clients with...
From Wild WebMink
DRM Is Toxic To Culture
It’s possible that you think that unauthorised use of copyrighted music, films and books is such a serious problem that it’s worth giving away a little of your...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Imagine Cup 2011 IT Challenge
Imagine Cup 2011 is the premier student technology competition. Inspired by the UN Millennium Development Goals, Imagine Cup encourages students to help
From Wild WebMink
Compliance
My essay on open source license compliance for end users is now available in the essays section.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Playstation Smartphone
Soon to be released, the Playstation, Android-based smartphone. In Engadget.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Who is going to need a database engine in 2020?
Given the Big Data phenomenon, you might think that everyone is becoming a database engineer. Unfortunately, writing a database engine is hard: Concurrency is difficult...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Trimble Acquires Thingmagic
Thingmagic, out of MIT, was one of the first EPC RFID companies we worked with. Here a continued set of mergers in the RFID space. The RFID tracking world has...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Keeping Retired Knowledge in the Game
I met with the management team at YourEncore today and was further impressed by their approaches, projects and future directions, so I thought I would repeat aYourEncore...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tesco Adds Barcode Scanner
Tesco has added a barcode scanner to its IPhone App. A short mention here, which mentions that this can be used at home to add items to a grocery list. This...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
SIGCSE 2011 Paper on My Computing Course for Non-Majors
I submitted a paper to this year's SIGCSE (ACM's Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education) conference that didn't get in. The reviews were actually...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unilever and Ampere Life Sciences
A brief WSJ piece about Unilever working with Ampere Life Sciences. Forrest Sawyer: He is also a co-founder of Ampere Life Sciences, a newly launched company developing...
From Computational Complexity
FOCS Part II
I'm heading back to Chicago this morning. Dan Spielman had a special talk in honor of his recent Nevanlinna prize. He gave an amazing talk (as always) about solving...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-10-26
LibreOffice Contributions stats It's early days, but it seems liberating the OpenOffice.org community from the contributor agreement and excessive vetting has helped...
From Putting People First
Seeing the world from the East
Last week I was in Seoul, South Korea. My third visit. And it struck me again how fast Asia, and South Korea in particular, is moving economically, and hence also...
From The Noisy Channel
A Question of User Expectations
Ideally, a search engine would read the user’s mind. Shy of that, a search engine should provide the user with an efficient process for expressing an information...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Welcoming Andrew Parsons to the US Academic Team
The latest person to join the US Academic Developer Evangelist team is Andrew Parsons. Andrew is moving from the other side of the world (Australia) to work with...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crowdsourcing Microtasks
I have been involved in a number of projects that involved using crowdsourcing tasks. I had missed the conference mentioned , but I this article in Oreilly Radar...
From The Eponymous Pickle