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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 Apophenia
Call for Papers: Digital Media & Learning Conference
Interested in Digital Media & Learning? Well, the 2011 Digital Media & Learning Conference is looking for some interesting talks, papers, and sessions. They’ve...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Promise of Computers in Patient Care
In the latest Communications of the ACM: Computers in Patient Care: Why has progress been so slow?. A good readable article that includes a good narrative about...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Brands a Wireless Plan
Wal-Mart has branded its own wireless plan. " ... it is introducing the first cell phone plan that uses the chain's own branding, further demonstrating its clout...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Recorded Future Full Text Search
I see that the exciting temporal search engine 'Recorded Furture' has added full text search to its premium interface. A very nice ability, which makes you depend...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hold the In-App Ads
As is obvious, mobile users do not like Ads with their mobile Apps. As in the early days of the Web until now, they will accept them for the right value trade off...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rise of Social Commerce
Charlene Li, always interesting, on the what she calls the rise of social commerce. Which will be talked about at an upcoming meeting.
From Schneier on Security
Kenzero
Kenzero is a Japanese Trojan that collects and publishes users' porn surfing habits, and then blackmails them to remove the information.
From Apophenia
Musing on Child Naming and the Internet
I am of the age where many of my friends are having kids and so I’ve been exposed to more conversations about what to name one’s child than I ever could’ve imagined...
From Computational Complexity
FOCS Travel Support (Guest Post by Paul Beame)
The program for the FOCS 2010 has an excellent set of selected papers and in addition has tutorials on Saturday by Ketan Mulmuley, Mihai Patrascu, and Tim Roughgarden...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 13 September 2010
Lots of good links this week. And if you are visiting via the web I wrote a rare week-end post on Object Oriented Programming.Design that I hope you
From Putting People First
A tech world that centers on the user
I live in the future & here’s how it works Why your world, work, and brain are being creatively disrupted by Nick Bolton Crown Business, Sept. 2010 304 pages Amazon...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Right vs Left Brain
At the enterprise a dozen years ago there was much talk about the difference between left and right brains, engineering and design minds. The specifics of the 'sided...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
New Challenges in the School Year
Back to school. At the K-12 level, it used to mean parents had to deal with the expense of pens, pencils, notebooks, and paper, maybe some art supplies, the occasional...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cute Geographic Maps
Yet another example of a geographic display with relatively little relationship between the geographic structure and the data itself. As I have said before, these...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Graph Networks for Predictive Analytics
Interesting thought here. We used graph network methods for years to understand and optimize supply chains. It is also useful because it can show the relationship...
From Apophenia
Favorite myth-making news articles?
The book that I’m writing is focused on myths that we have about teens and social media. I’m trying to find some good quotes from news media that perpetuate these...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Objects When? If Ever?
This post started as a comment on Mark Guzdial
From The Eponymous Pickle
David Sibbet's Book Launch
I have mentioned it here before ... Colleague David Sibbet's new and provocative book: Visual Meetings. He video posts about his book launch. A descriptive video...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Conference App
Long-time correspondent Sy Truong and his company Meta-Xceed, Inc. have developed an IPhone App for the upcoming SAS Global Forum 2011 Conference. This is an interesting...
From The Eponymous Pickle