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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
Voluntary Security Inspections
What could possibly be the point of this? Cars heading to Austin-Bergstrom International Airport will see random, voluntary inspections Monday. The searches are...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter on Innovation
An interview with P&G's Melanie Healey on Invading 'Whitespace' via Innovation, in Brandweek. Nothing very new, but good view of their directions.
From Computational Complexity
Avner Magen (1968-2010)
Toronto Professor Avner Magen died in a climbing accident on Saturday. He's had a number of important results on a variety of algorithmic topics.Avner was one of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Upside of Irrationality
Dan Ariely's new book, The Upside of Irrationality is out. See more at his blog. On the list here.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Remembering Lee De Forest
A number of posts about the invention of the amplifier by Lee De Forest in 1906. A crucial step in the broad application of electronics. As the Gizmodo article...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Computer Science is Shallow
Zed A. Shaw—author of several books on Ruby and Python—came up with an interesting criticism of Computer Science. He makes some good points: Computer Science is...
From The Noisy Channel
Are Links A Distraction?
Eric Andersen called my attention to a post by Nick Carr entitled “Experiments in delinkification“, in which Carr argues that links embedded in text are distracting...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
New England Innovation Month 2010
June has been designated as New England Innovation month. It was innovation (the company was Digital Equipment) that really caused me to move to New England 30most...
From My Biased Coin
Personal News : "New Job"
Since it's more or less been publicly announced at this point, I may as well announce it here: starting July 1, I'll be the new Area Dean for Computer Scienceunlike...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Google Tells You
In Fortune: If Google Told You to to Jump Off a Cliff, Would You?. A woman sues for literally taking walking advice. As several people have suggested, yes ..in...
From Wild WebMink
? Open Data: Fantastic, But Not Enough
In an unusual move for such a significant news item, the UK government announced over the weekend that they were ordering all government departments to embark on...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Value of Being Uncool
Jonathan Baskin spins the interesting case of the mashed-up Pabst Blue Ribbon beer brand. A number of things I did not know about them. Should the brand be cooler...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Virtual Schools: What Exactly Are They?
We are living in a world that is becoming increasingly dependent on technology. With expanding technology comes an exponentially growing number of virtual schools...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stop Customer Price Fixation
Herb Sorensen pointed us to a paper on how to avoid customer price fixation in the May Harvard Business Review. Good examples and good read, and also read the...
From My Biased Coin
Blogging from Bertinoro
I'm here at Bertinoro (a beautiful, out-of-the-way, small town in Italy) for the 2010 version of Random GRAALS (= graphs and algorithms), a workshop that we'vestandard...
From Schneier on Security
Canada Spending $1B on Security for G8/G20 Summit in June
Amazing: The Canadian government disclosed Tuesday that the total price tag to police the elite Group of Eight meeting in Muskoka, as well as the bigger-tent Group...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cosmic 140
A visualization of the 140 most important entities on Twitter. This reminds me of Stephen Few's recent document on the overuse of circular images for data visualization...
From Computational Complexity