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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
Flowing Data
Newly discovered company. Note the emphasis on letting experts discover hidden patterns. That's useful, but I think it better to let experts and less-than-expert...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Everywhere
Economist article on the superabundance of data. The value and the complexity it produces. New techniques, hardware and pushing the manipulation of this data down...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Power Aware Computing
From the CACM:Recipe for Efficiency: Principles of Power-Aware ComputingPrior work on power management reflects recurring themes that can be leveraged to make future...
From The Eponymous Pickle
4 Block World on Computing
In the whimsical four block world: Computers getting cheaper an better.-
From Wild WebMink
? Going Open
ACTA opens up at last; password changes pointless; crowdsourcing is not open source; and more.
From Apophenia
Big Data: Opportunities for Computational and Social Sciences
Scott Golder recently wrote blog post at Cloudera entitled “Scaling Social Science with Hadoop” where he accounts for “how social scientists are using large scale...
From Michael Nielsen
Open Architecture Democracy
This is the text for some brief remarks I made about open architecture democracy at the beginning of a panel on the subject, moderated by Tad Homer-Dixon...
From Wild WebMink
? Accommodating Innovators
An excellent paper by Lawrence Lessig leads to the question why we are criminalizing the next generation in protection of the past.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Elective Status Creates Chaos for Courses and Students
A recent experience brought to us by a school within our local CSTA chapter drives home some of the unusual difficulties we have in developing Computer Science...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Elective Status Creates Chaos for Courses and Students
A recent experience brought to us by a school within our local CSTA chapter drives home some of the unusual difficulties we have in developing Computer Science...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Japan Offers Smartphone Bar Code Scanner
I am informed that Big Japan is offering a free software developer kit (SDK) for their smartphone bar code scanner. Much more here. A number of Apps includingmy...
From My Biased Coin
Bursts -- a new Barabasi book
At the end of the month, Barabasi's new book, entitled Bursts: The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do, will be released. Here's the pre-order Amazon link,a...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Medical Lab on a Chip for the Home
The idea of having a medical testing chip in every home reminds me of a number of ideas floated for a biometric toilet, floated by a number of Japanese firms in...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
CRA-W Grad Cohort 2010 Next Week
I'm very fortunate to be attending my second CRA-W Grad Cohort next week. I also went last year when it was held near San Francisco. This year it will be near...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ning Fails at Free
We looked at the free social networking service Ning, created by Marc Andreesen. Now is has gone to a pay service, though users can migrate to alternative networks...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Does Your Computer Lab Scare Away the Girls?
The Internet is as the same time one of the great distractions and great spontaneously learning environments in history. As I looked at my twitter stream I sawTEDxSeattle...
From Putting People First
Tales of Things
Tales of Things is a new tool that allows people to attach memories to their objects in the form of video, text or audio, thus “exploring the implications of The...
From Schneier on Security