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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 Wild WebMink
? New Week, New Column, New Job
Starting the week with a new column in ComputerWorldUK and a new job as well.
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Brands Grow: First Read
Correspondent Byron Sharp, Professor at the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute, University of South Australia, has a new book: How Brands Grow: What Marketers Don't Know....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Reality as Pain Relief
The use of games and virtual reality for pain relief. From CACM.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
A great run at NSF CISE!
Three quick notes … First, I can’t believe that there weren’t more comments on John King’s terrific post,
From Putting People First
Tell-all generation learns to keep things offline
Members of the under 30 tell-all generation are rethinking what it means to live out loud. “The conventional wisdom suggests that everyone under 30 is comfortable...
From Putting People First
Homesense project launched
Tinker London (the people behind Arduino) started a collaboration with EDF R&D on Homesense, an open user-centered research project investigating the use of smart...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shopping at the Mall of the Future
In Retail Traffic a fairly good exploratory look at shopping in the next decade. Overplays, yes, but reasonable speculative views based on existing technologies...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Scratch and Eighth Graders
I finished teaching the third round of my mini-course on Friday, and was so exhausted (in a good way) that I accidentally fell asleep at 9pm.This year, I tried ...
From Wild WebMink
? Changes, Personal and
For me it has been a week full of change and energy on every level.
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: The Colossal Squid isn't a Vicious Predator
New research shows that, even though it's 15 meters long, it's not the kraken of myth: Its large size and predatory nature fuelled the ancient myth of the underwater...
From Schneier on Security
I Was Named as One of the Top 10 Science and Technology Writers
Someone named me as one of the top 10 science and technology writers of all time. Flattering though it is, I don't think I belong in the company of Einstein, Newton...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Point Them in a Direction and Get Out of the Way
I’ve heard Bill Gates talk a number of times about how influential his middle school experiences with computers were in his life. (You can hear him talk about it...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Young and Affluent Moving to Private Label
In MediaPost, Nielsen shows data that the young and affluent are moving towards increasingly better and more readily available private label offerings.
From My Biased Coin
Aldous/Diaconis: Longest Increasing Subsequences
For some research I'm currently doing, I ran across a truly wonderful "old" paper,Longest increasing subsequences: from patience sorting to the Baik-Deift-Johansson...
From Computational Complexity
Is Complexity Math or Science?
In March David Pennock promoted Computer Science as STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) a takeoff on STEM. There are aspects of computer...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-05-07
Investing And Asperger's Andrew Sullivan points to a fascinating article on Asperger's. The role of Asperger's Syndrome in the technology industry is reasonably...
From The Eponymous Pickle