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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 Wild WebMink
links for 2010-08-12
Why We Need To Abolish Software Patents "Patents make a lot of sense in many industries …. But in software these are just nuclear weapons in an arms race. They...
From Schneier on Security
Security Analysis of Smudges on Smart Phone Touch Screens
"Smudge Attacks on Smartphone Touch Screens": Abstract: Touch screens are an increasingly common feature on personal computing devices, especially smartphones...
From My Biased Coin
Monkey Business
I see Harvard's in the news yet again, as the Boston Globe broke a story about psychologist Marc Hauser, who is "taking a year-long leave after a lengthy internal...
From Wild WebMink
The King Is Dead, Long Live The King
The move back to collaborative co-development of open source will characterise the next phase of the open source movement.
From The Eponymous Pickle
How to Build a Mind
Still waiting for some of the required details for reverse-engineering. I am no neuroscientist, but even I can see that all the blueprints are not ready yet. "...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Can Our Classrooms Be More Collaborative
I recently had the privilege of attending the Computer Science and Information Technology Symposium at Google Headquarters in Mountain View, California. Wow! What...
From My Biased Coin
Other UK Adventures
While in the UK, I went out to some other places to give talks -- Liverpool and Cambridge.At both places I gave my talk on our analysis of the auction site Swoopo...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Windows Phone 7 Sample applications
Windows Phone 7 Program Manager, Sean Mckenna, visited the Channel 9 studio to demo of some Windows Phone 7 applications. The idea is that these are some core applications...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smartphones and Retailers
The possibilities of having shoppers use their own devices to get information to help them understand their options has existed for some time. But now shoppersearly...
From Computational Complexity
Factoring in P ?
(Update on alleged P NE NP proof: There are some issues with it. See these posts on Lipton's blog: here and here and also see a Wikipedia site that (I think) Terry...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robot Roadmap
In the CACM, A roadmap for the robotic future. " ... The EU-funded CARE project (Coordination Action for Robotics in Europe), coordinated by Rainer Bischoff and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Many Books Are There?
I am a book and library nut. A nice piece by Google that takes a cut at the 'N' question about books. Along the way you learn quite a bit about books and how...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-08-11
Oracle Details Upcoming Solaris 11 Release "We're really getting our grip around building a mission critical operating system that includes technologies from openSolaris...
From Schneier on Security
Late Teens and Facebook Privacy
Facebook Privacy Settings: Who Cares?" by danah boyd and Eszter Hargittai. Abstract: With over 500 million users, the decisions that Facebook makes about its...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Bytes by MSDN and TechNet
Microsoft has just started a new series of blogs that will highlight various developers and IT professionals from around the US and beyond. This is a chance toBytes...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
A Different Perspective on P != NP
Ok, obviously this potential proof for P != NP is causing quite a stir. I really wasn't planning on blogging about it, but today I had the opportunity to share...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Saffron Associative Experience Management
I just received a note announcing Saffron Technologies forthcoming book: Making Memories, Applying Neuron-inspired Associative Memories to National, Business and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Forbes Requires its Reporters to Blog
Via Paul Gillin ... Forbes is requiring its reporters to blog and is opening a new blog. Will newspapers survive by morphing into blogs? That seems to be be happening...
From Wild WebMink