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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 Schneier on Security
"The Fear Tax"
Good essay by Seth Godin: We pay the fear tax every time we spend time or money seeking reassurance. We pay it twice when the act of seeking that reassurance actually...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Truth About Wal-Mart RFID Plans
Nice piece in CGT. Worth reading. I find nothing very surprising here. Just that the latest writings indicated a specific set of plans, while previously only...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Change Your Name to Avoid Cyber-Past
Eye opening, given that they are the enablers ... : Young will have to change names to escape 'cyber past' warns Google's Eric Schmidt ... The private lives of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Airline Traffic Data
Have been following airline network traffic for some time. Fascinating compendium of May 2010 Airline Traffic Data. Via Mark Perry's blog, who has some comments...
From Computational Complexity
Today is Paul Turan's 100th Birthday!
The following conversation is a fictional version of a real conversation. Lance: Bill, Wed August 18, 2010 is Paul Turan's 100th birthday. We should post onGASARCH...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Science is NOT Boring!
Well I guess a lot of people, especially students thing computer science is boring. According to a recent article (Steve Furber: why kids are turned off computing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simpler Solar
In the NYT ... a simpler, plug and play solar array system under development. Like to see these kinds of things.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wikify Fact Checking
Can you use a Wiki to do true fact checking? A USC journalism Prof attempt. I don't think it is working in the WIkipedia for anything that smells even a tiny amount...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Achieving Marketplace 2.0
Some of my recent explorations of e-procurement systems led me to this upcoming AMR webinar. See my previous post on ViniMaya, a strong contender in this space....
From Schneier on Security
Crypto 2010 Proceedings
The Crypto 2010 Conference is going on right now at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Springer-Verlag publishes the proceedings, but they're available...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Outreach Campaign: Smart Girls Rock!
I've been leading an effort for our Women in Science and Engineering group, CU-WISE, to create a set of promotional items intended to be used during outreach events...
From Computational Complexity
My last post on the alleged P NE NP paper
(This is likely my last post on the alleged P NE NP paper unless more real news on it occurs. The only real news I can see happening at this point is a retraction...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shopkick at BestBuy
What appears to be an easy to use location based promotion system that does not require explicit check-in once enabled. Also, the automatic check-in cannot beBest...
From The Eponymous Pickle
FlowingData
Check out Nathan Yau's always interesting visualization and statistics site: FlowingData.
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-08-17
The Twitter Simon Phipps Daily Interesting meta-aggregator turns links posted by the people I follow on Twitter into a daily "newspaper". (tags: paper.li Twitter...
From Schneier on Security
Hacking Cars Through Wireless Tire-Pressure Sensors
Still minor, but this kind of thing is only going to get worse: The new research shows that other systems in the vehicle are similarly insecure. The tire pressure...
From Apophenia
Social Divisions Between Orkut & Facebook in Brazil
I have been writing about social divisions between Facebook and MySpace for some time now, focused exclusively on American teenager dynamics. Yet, every time I...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Free Microsoft Office Add-ins for Educators
Just in time to start off the new school year, several new supporting tools are now updated for teacher use. You can read some summaries below but first check out...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Advertising Policy
Readers, Publishers, Vendors,I have had an increasing number of requests to have advertising links placed in this blog.In general I do not take advertising that...
From Apophenia