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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 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
24: Really Bad Game Theory, technology, and science
The TV show 24 aired its last episode on May 24. The show used computers and technology ALOT, more than on most shows. Was it realistic? What it interesting? ...
From Wild WebMink
? Transparency, Privacy and Genius
Analysis: this government is open to scrutiny Noble words that, if truly implemented, take Britain down a path to open governmnet and citizen scrutiny. But only...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 31 May 2010
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Twitter as a Gaming Platform
In Readwriteweb: Thinking about Twitter as a gaming platform.I am still convinced that there is real value in overlaying game incentives on serious work. See my...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Getting Some Privacy with Google
I good piece on what you can do to make it more difficult to invade your privacy via Google tools. ' ... Bottom line? Big Brother knows a whole lot more than...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Things You Should Know About Statistics
Good overview piece about statistics. This wont tell you how, but will position your knowledge of when stats can be used, and classic errors in their use. A good...
From The Eponymous Pickle