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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 Eponymous Pickle
Upcoming Talk on Mashed-up Visualization
On mash-ups for visualization, plan to attendL The Last Mile: Data Visualization in a Mashed-Up World (May 20, at 3PM ET, then archived) Requires minimal registration...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Comment from Google on Wifi Privacy
Comments from Google on the recent Wifi privacy problems in Europe. Troubling that they seem to be less than completely serious on this topic. Just because no one...
From Computational Complexity
What should be in an automata course: Two views based on recent experience
(Joint Post with Subrahmanyam Kalyanasundaram) In this post, I speculated on what I might put into my automata theory course. That prompted Subrahmanyam Kalyanasundaram...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-05-19
Web Browsers Leave 'Fingerprints' Behind as You Surf the Net You may do your best to remain anonymous on the web, you may have cookies blocked, but this research...
From Wild WebMink
? Not Just For Radicals
Software freedom may sound like a line from a revolutionary manifesto, but it’s the key genetic market for value in the enterprise. read more on my ComputerWorldUK...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Security of Cars as App Platforms
There has been software in cars for a long time, but now that Ford has opened an App store they start looking like a platform for software, networked into the grid...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Location Apps and Capabilities Competing
AdAge review of location Apps and new competitive capabilities in Facebook. I am not sure I want to have another capability rolled into FB. At least in systems"...
From Wild WebMink
? Home, Pele
By way of explanation for my preoccupation and paucity of publication of late, I finally made it back home today after my trip to the US with ForgeRock. We had...
From The Eponymous Pickle
KYield Diabetes Use Case Scenario
Mark Montgomery of KYield writes: " .. I am pleased to share with you our health care use case, which is an important cornerstone of our series 'Semantic Scenarios...
From The Eponymous Pickle
TV Apps
In AdAge: The growth of mobile applications that mirror TV productions. Cross platform delivery and advertising. .
From The Eponymous Pickle
Laser is 50 Years Old
The functional laser is 50 years old in 2010. It was predicted as early as 1917 in a paper by Einstein. A very remarkable achievement with many applications. ...
From Michael Nielsen
Interesting sentences
From Pierre Levy’s book Collective Intelligence: mankind’s emerging world in cyberspace: Groups learn even more slowly than individuals. The flipside to this is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Practicing the Google Rule
Michael Schrage asks why many people do not use the information easily available to them. Obvious, but also worth repeating. We were always taught that before...
From Schneier on Security
Outsourcing to an Indian Jail
This doesn't seem like the best idea: Authorities in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh are planning to set up an outsourcing unit in a jail. The unit...
From Computational Complexity
Boycotting Arizona
I heard a suggestion that computer science conferences not be held in Arizona because of their new anti-immigration law. Both Bill and I have discussed academic...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
2010 U.S. Innovative Education Forum!
Do You Innovate? Apply now for the 2010 U.S. Innovative Education Forum! You could be selected to attend events in Washington, DC this summer and Cape Town, South...
From My Biased Coin
Harvard News Items
Some highlights: 1) From the Crimson: "An undergraduate has been dismissed from Harvard College after allegedly hacking into online accounts of the teaching staff...
From Putting People First
Embedded anthropology
Anthropologist Simon Roberts, who manages the social science research and design research team for Digital Health Group at Intel in Ireland, spoke last week at...
From The Eponymous Pickle