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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
Factors for getting a job- Arbitrary, random, and complex
The Job Market in Theory (likely in all of academia) has more randomness and arbitrariness (are those the same?) then people may realize. Especially young PhD's...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of July 19
July 20 Hearing: The Health Subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee will hold a hearing on encouraging the use of Health Information Technology. 1 p...
From Putting People First
On the design process, consistency and product development
Three new articles have been published on the UX Matters site: Design Is a Process, Not a Methodology By Pabini Gabriel-Petit In this installment of On Good Behavior...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Checking into States of Mind
I like Batelle's point about checking into things other than just location. Advertisers infer this today, does it make sense to make it more explicit? He writes...
From My Biased Coin
New Paper: Popularity is Everything
Another new paper announcement: Popularity is Everything: A New Approach to Protecting Passwords from Statistical-Guessing Attacks, which will appear next month...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-07-19
NASA and Rackspace open source cloud fluffer Very significant initiative. The fact it's under the Apache licence makes it highly reusable, and the diversity of...
From Schneier on Security
Embedded Code in U.S. Cyber Command Logo
This is excellent. And it's been cracked already.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links July 19th 2010
I spent some time in California at the CSTA CS & IT Symposium last week. Great stuff to learn and a lot (though never enough) of time to talk to friends both old...
From Wild WebMink
? Did Open Core Trigger OpenStack?
At the end of the Community Leadership Summit here in Portland people arriving for OSCON started to show up. They included one of the guys behind Rackspace’s announcement...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crash Course in Google Analytics
Though I have now used Google Analytics for years, I have not spent enough time understanding it and its value and limitations in depth. Here is a pointer to more...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter Manufacturers Private
So is this a bow to private label? Will they become a developer-manufacturer-marketer of many goods for retailers?Procter & Gamble boosts bet on exclusive brands...
From The Noisy Channel
Off to Geneva for SIGIR
I’m flying to Geneva tonight to attend SIGIR. Hope to see some of you there! I’ll be back in a week and will post highlights and personal reactions.
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-07-18
Oracle's Support for Open Source and Open Standards Looks like this is the canonical list of which open source projects matter to Oracle. Notable for what's missing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brains as Game Controllers
In the BBC: This idea has been around for some time, but does not appear to have taken hold. Here Emotiv claims to have developed neural game control headsets that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Frito-Lay to Feature Ergonomic Checkout in its Innovation Center
This is new. I had thought there would be some complaints in self checkout, but the you always have to lift the heavy bags charcoal, or 24 packs of drnk out of...
From Wild WebMink
? On the term
I’ve been having a number of conversations in e-mail on the subject of open core business models. The problem that keeps coming up is that there are a range of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Walking Around in Proteins
Walking inside your data. I had a conversation with a guy from IBM about this kind of approach. He implemented a data walkaround in Second Life.Virtual Reality...
From The Eponymous Pickle