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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 Computational Complexity
The World in Its Own Terms
The New York Times Magazine last Sunday focused on technology on education. Lots of good reads but what caught my eye was an article by Microsoft Research's Jaron...
From The Eponymous Pickle
WiFi vs 3G at Panera Bread
This GigaOM article answered some questions I have had about how people access their increasingly large datastream. I always use WiFi at home and have helped several...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Acquires Netezza
We see that IBM has acquired the database appliance maker Netezza. You may recall I have a short engagement with Netezza last year. Here is what I have written....
From Schneier on Security
Statistical Distribution of Combat Wounds to the Head
This is interesting: The study, led by physician Yuval Ran, looked at Israeli combat deaths from 2000 to 2004 and tracked where bullet entries appeared on the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Devine Employee Behavioral Assessment
Had a meeting with an interesting company, Devine Group, that links potential employees to what they can really do best. Have always been interested in the modeling...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Xerox Parc Turns 40
A good CW piece on the innovation that has come out of Xerox Parc. We visited them a number of times and were always impressed by what we saw. Sometimes they are...
From Computational Complexity
Joseph B Kruskal passed away (Guest post by Clyde P Kruskal)
(Guest post from Clyde P Kruskal.) Yesterday (September 19, 2010) my uncle, Joseph B. Kruskal passed away. I just wanted to say a few personal words. Maybe,...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Policy Highlights from Communications of the ACM - August 2010 (Vol. 53, No. 8)
Below is a list of items with policy relevance from the August issue of Communications of the ACM. As always, much of the material in CACM is premium content, and...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 20 September 2010
I’m happy to see that the Microsoft student website won the “Outstanding Website” award in the Education category from the Web Marketing Association./Student...
From Putting People First
Mobile Monday Amsterdam on design
Every other month Mobile Monday Amsterdam organises a network event with visionary speakers and practical cases. The most recent one, on 6 September, was devoted...
From Schneier on Security
Four Irrefutable Security Laws
This list is from Malcolm Harkins, Intel's chief information security officer, and it's a good one (from a talk at Forrester's Security Forum): Users want...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of September 20
September 22 Hearing: The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. 10 a.m., 226 Dirksen Building The Consumer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visualizing Big Data
The Wikibon Blog, fifteen examples of visualizing big data. Some interesting examples here that are worth looking at. Some beautiful graphics. Yet here I protest...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
New York Times Magazine Features Technology in Education
Today’s New York Times Sunday magazine is devoted to
From The Noisy Channel
Search at the Speed of Thought
A guiding principle in information technology has been to enable people to perform tasks at the “speed of thought”. The goal is not just to make people more efficient...
From The Eponymous Pickle
GIS and Agent Based Modeling
An article from a while back that addresses how virtual worlds and agent based modeling can be linked together for research applications. Via Dave Cohen. This blog...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Grasp Lab at Penn
I don't remember Penn being particularly well known for robotics work. Yet their Grasp lab (general robotics, automation, sensing and perception) around since 1979...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Carrefour Reinventing the Hypermarket
An interesting piece that seems to indicate that Carrefour is taking a more revolutionary that evolutionary approach in design. Nice to see this direction. Considerable...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
I Know What You Did Last Summer
If you are like most of the teachers I know (and how I used to be) then you probably spent your summer doing any combination of the following: vacationing, resting...
From The Eponymous Pickle