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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
Creativity and Sadness
Does sadness make us more creative? In Wired/Frontal Cortex. My own informal innovation center observations would say otherwise, but this may depend more strongly on...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Singularity Operating System
Technical but intriquing piece in CACM Microsoft's experimental operating system. The Singularity System Safe, modern programming languages let Microsoft rethink...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
New Hampshire TechFest 2010
I spent most of Saturday at the New Hampshire TechFest at Windham High School. NH Tech Fest is a Satellite Event of the USA Science and Engineering Festival which...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Loss Aversion
In Wired / Frontal Cortex: On the Allais paradox, or loss aversion in humans. One of the most well known and powerful concepts in neuroeconomics. With some excellent...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hyper Social Organization
Paul Gillin on Hyper social organizations:" ... I
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-10-23
Mike Shapiro Leaves Oracle Another of the key Solaris guys quits. A key figure in the development the ZFS storage appliance as well as of DTrace in Solaris kernel...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Ways to Map Influence
In Fastcompany. An idea we also examined. How do you figure out where useful ideas come from? And why they sometimes do not have the influence you might expect...
From Schneier on Security
Steganography in the Longfin Inshore Squid
Really: While the notion that a few animals produce polarization signals and use them in communication is not new, M
From The Eponymous Pickle
Magazines on the iPad
A good piece on early experiments with publishing mags on the iPad. I see this an example of really fundamental change. Are we seeing the beginning of the new...
From Schneier on Security
Video Interview with Me from RSA Europe
I was interviewed this week at RSA Europe.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
CS Education Resources
Steve Cooper, Mehran Sahami, and Paulo Blickstein at Stanford University have a project about online repositories of computer science educational material and they...
From Putting People First
Smartphones are our new drug of choice
Smartphones’ sleek forms, tactile buttons, and blinking lights add up to a sort of game — and a perfect catalyst for compulsive behaviors, writes Shelley DuBois...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More QR Codes in Retail
QR codes are gaining momentum as they increasingly appear on shelf tags, in-store posters and product packagingIn Supermarketnews, more examples of how scan able...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Class or Computer Science Class
There is much too much confusion about the difference between a
From Putting People First
The (limited) power of good intentions
Socially responsible design, writes Julie Lasky in Metropolis Magazine, is a whole lot harder than it looks.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visualizing Your Inbox
Another example of Gmail inbox visualization. I have mentioned a few others here. I have built some simple screen scraping methods to look at this via Excel,...
From Computational Complexity
New York Area Theory Day- Nov 12, 2010
New York Area Theory Day, Organized by: IBM/NYU/Columbia, External sponsorship by: Google, Friday, November 12, 2010 The Theory Day will be held at Couranthere...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Econonomics of Mass Collaboration
HBR Podcast with guest Don Tapscott, chairman of nGenera Insight and coauthor of Macrowikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World. on the economics of mass collaboration...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-10-22
AWS Free Usage Tier I was actually surprised to find Amazon didn't have a sandpit for AWS, so this new offering really doesn't surprise me. They still have no easy...
From Schneier on Security