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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
Faceted Search in Linkedin
I have always thought that Linkedin had a messy user interface. It especially confuses new users, who I heard from in the enterprise. Just read of some changesMore...
From Putting People First
The reality of social media
Adrian Chan has written a thoughtful post about “teasing apart the objective and subjective dimensions of social media, to examine what
From The Eponymous Pickle
Self Healing Software
From CACM on the idea of self-healing software. Mention of some IBM research in this area. Several years ago I went to a meeting on complexity modeling at IBM...
From My Biased Coin
Robobees Redux
While I intentionally try to avoid the political on this blog, I did make an exception previously when I heard that the Harvard Robobees project had made #1 onthe...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-05-16
Met Office: Five Day Volcanic Ash Charts Volcano forecasts have arrived. From the looks of these charts it's touch-and-go whether I will be able to fly home on...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
The Computing Community Consortium At Three
The Computing Community Consortium was launched three years ago
From The Noisy Channel
People You May Know
I was just looking at LinkedIn and found myself pleasantly surprised by a minor UI improvement in the “People You May Know” widget: as you delete people you don’t...
From Apophenia
Facebook is a utility; utilities get regulated
From day one, Mark Zuckerberg wanted Facebook to become a utility. He succeeded. Facebook is now a utility. The problem with utilities is that they get regulated...
From The Noisy Channel
The Google Job Experiment
This is just so brilliant that I had to post it here. I’ve blogged in the past about alerting spam, but this guy took the idea to a new level, with great return...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
On the list, but not on the stack yet. Nicholas Carr's new book: The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains . Look forward to reading it.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
The 10 Worst Practices in ICT Education
Excuse me if you have already found this gem, but I was sent this link and immediately formed a strong view that I'd like to meet Michael Trucano: http://blogs...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Android Pushes Ahead
I just bought two Android phones for the family. I am still using an IPhone. I have become interested in a comparison of the two options. This post has some...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smartphones Killing the PC?
Dangerous to say never, but Dell says that Smartphones will never kill the PC. I see it somewhat like calculators versus cash registers. There will always be...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Open EEG
For those interested in brain metrics, you can now utilize an open EEG project on Source Forge.
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Applying How We Learn to Computer Science Classes
While reading What the Best College Teachers Do by Ken Bain, I felt excited about how much the knowledge contained within could make computer science educationVisit...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid T-Shirts
Some nice ones (ignore the dinosaurs).
From Apophenia
Facebook and
At SXSW, I decided to talk about privacy because I thought that it would be the most important issue of the year. I was more accurate than my wildest dreams....
From The Eponymous Pickle