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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 The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Peter Lee Joins Microsoft Research
Peter Lee, a past member of the CCC Council and the PI of the first CIFellows Project, today was named the Managing Director of Microsoft Research Redmond, effective...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Paro: Helping dementia patients
Last week Amy Harmon wrote the third installment of the awesome New York Times Magazine series
From Schneier on Security
Random Numbers from Quantum Noise
Not that we need more ways to get random numbers, but the research is interesting.
From Putting People First
University and Cyberspace conference videos online
A few weeks ago the Communia conference University and Cyberspace took place here in Torino, Italy, with a focus on “reshaping knowledge institutions for the networked...
From My Biased Coin
Arxiv Paper: Heapable Sequences and Subsequences
I haven't been blogging much; consider me on extended vacation. It's helping me prepare for giving up the blog soonish. But I thought I'd mention our newly posted...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft's Virtual Human
In the BBC: All sorts of interesting implications in cinema, storytelling, marketing and games. We will soon be at a place where the real and artificial are no...
From Putting People First
Internet
“The internet has not become the great leveller that it was once thought it could be,” according to Harvard academic Ethan Zuckerman at the TED Global (Technology...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tibco Announces Free BI Tool
Clever marketing approach from Tibco, maker of Spotfire. Have not taken a look yet at exactly what it is yet. In ReadwriteWeb: " ... Tibco has launched a business...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
2010 CSIT Symposium
This is a reposting of a blog piece written by Doug Peterson on his blog http://dougpete.wordpress.com/. Yesterday, I had the honour of attending the 2010 CSIT...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smartphones as Checkouts
Very likely I think, it simplifies a number of things, and creates a new channel to the shopper. What are the implications for manufacturer and retailer?Smartphones...
From Schneier on Security
Burglary Detection through Video Analytics
This is interesting: Some of the scenarios where we have installed video analytics for our clients include: to detect someone walking in an area of their yard...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Recorded Future Examined
I have been asked to take a closer look at the Recorded Future site. A number of posts will follow that will track my interaction with the site and company. The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robot Industry
A good CWorld article on the the bloom of the robotics industry. I like this because it links the challenge to artificial intelligence (AI) which I covered for...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Cooperative Board Games Take Some Getting Used To
I'm sure getting together every two weeks to play board games and calling it research isn't anything new, but it's definitely something I need to do. I pride myself...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Old Spice and Social Engagement
Insider Dave Knox on taking social engagement to a new level at Procter & Gamble's Old Spice brand. Via Walter Riker.
From Computational Complexity
GCT Workshop (Guest Post by Josh Grochow)
Last week, the Center for Computational Intractability hosted a Geometric Complexity Theory Workshop. Geometric complexity theory (GCT) is an approach to P vs...
From Wild WebMink
Open Core Case Study
SugarCRM 6 Debuts with Open Source and Commercial Features While their marketing guy may claim “that overall, Sugar 6 is an open source product from an open source...
From Schneier on Security
Caller ID Spoofing on the Android
It's easy to access someone else's voicemail by spoofing the caller ID. This isn't new; what is new is that many people now have easy access to caller ID spoofing...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Advice For An Imagine Cup Team
The following is a guest post by Pat Yongpradit. Pat is the computer science teacher at Springbrook High School in Silver Spring, Maryland. His students competed...
From Putting People First