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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
Taking on Healthcare: The Time is Now
The Computing Community Consortium recently prepared a white paper titled, “Information Technology Research Challenges for Healthcare: From Discovery to Delivery...
From My Biased Coin
Crimson Article on SEAS
This article from the Crimson on the state of Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences from a couple of weeks ago serves as a good primer for me on...
From The Eponymous Pickle
World Laundry Trends
Ad Age piece on the trends on laundry solutions around the world. An old interest of mine from research within the enterprise.
From Schneier on Security
Protecting Cars with The Club
From the Freakonomics blog: At some point, the Club was mentioned. The professional thieves laughed and exchanged knowing glances. What we knew was that the Club...
From Computational Complexity
Whats your Game Mr. Bond- The sequel!
(I will post about CCC 2010 later in the week.) The word Game is used in many different contexts within math and computer science. I list out all that a group...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Lack of steady trajectories and failure
A common advice given out to young researchers is to find a niche. (See Michael’s Branding Your Research). That is certainly good advice. Instead of being another...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 14 June 2010
Is school done for the year where you are? Here in the northeast of the US there is another week or two to go. Teachers are finishing up the year, getting their...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bad Spill Infographics
In Junk Charts: Oil Spills Bring out the Worst. A number of examples that just muddy up the data they are trying to deliver. I get the feeling that news organizations...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Culture and Consumer Choices
Colleague Sammy Haroon posts on Culture and Consumer Choices..
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of June 14
June 15 Hearing: The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee will hold a hearing on cyberspace as a national asset, with an emphasis on legislation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tomorrow, June 15, is GS1 MobileCom Day
Always informative value from GS1. Have worked with them for a number of years and reported on their activities here:Tomorrow (Tuesday 15th June) is GS1 MobileCom...
From Wild WebMink
? Political Costs Prevent Actual Savings
Proprietary technology is a waste of money, says Kroes The speech by Neelie Kroes last week in Brussels was very carefully constructed and avoided almost all mention...
From Schneier on Security
Behavioral Profiling at Airports
There's a long article in Nature on the practice: It remains unclear what the officers found anomalous about George's behaviour, and why he was detained. The TSA's...
From Wild WebMink
? Your Chance To Reform
The Open Source Initiative is ready for a refit, and it needs your help to make it happen.
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Permanence of Social Data
How much should social network based strategies depend on data from the behavior of those sites? Evan Schuman writes about this in StoreFrontBacktalk. Most social...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Carr vs Pinker
In Slashdot: Another look at the disagreement between the two Harvard associated thinkers Steven Pinker and David Carr. Does the availability of the Internet hurt...
From The Eponymous Pickle