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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 Schneier on Security
Malcom Gladwell on Spies
Good quote: Translation: the proper function of spies is to remind those who rely on spies that the kinds of thing found out by spies can't be trusted. Nice...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Global Time Sink
Carr in Roughtype discusses the Web as a global time sink, and outlines efforts to go 'cold turkey' on using the Internet. One participant suggests that getting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Internet of Things Mashup
The Internet of Things conference starts today in London. Much more about it here. More information at the link, a blog, videos, etc. I will report on aspects...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Voice and Skype
In Computerworld: You can now make calls using Skype from Google Voice. There is also a unified caller ID between the two. Very nice connection that can make both...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dis-Loyalty Program
Clever thought: Is The Anti-Loyalty Program A Fun Way To Get Competitor Intelligence? by Evan SchumanA UK coffee retailer had an unusual idea, something he called...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
What's Different About Boys' and Girls' Interest in Computing?
Today's college-bound students have grown up immersed in the technology of computing, and what interests them is no longer the same as what attracted previous generations...
From The Eponymous Pickle
May/June Analytics
In the May June Analytics Magazine. A number of good articles including analytics in health care, text analytics, supply chain analytics overview. As usual, good...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
COMPETES Act Reauthorization Takes First Step Through Congress
Last Wednesday at the end of a long markup session, the House Science and Technology Committee approved a bill that would reauthorize the American COMPETES Act,...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 3 May 2010
Last week was a struggle for me both blogging and otherwise. A lot of stuff going on at work and at home. Plus of course I spent a lot of my blogging energy onImagine...
From Schneier on Security
Security Analysis of India's Electronic Voting Machines
They're vulnerable to fraud.
From Computational Complexity
Guest Post on Robin Milner who passed away recently
Robin Milner died on March 20, 2010. For obits see here and here. A review of his most recent book will be in a future SIGACT NEWS book review column; however,here...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of May 3
May 5 Hearing: The Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties of the House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on updating the Electronic...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Toward Data-driven Science
Science and business, so far, has being mostly model driven. That is, you collect a few data points, just enough to fit your model. Then you proceed from your model...
From My Biased Coin
The Computer Science Ecosystem
Inspired a bit by some inspirational, high-level talks I've seen the last few days (see Matt's take on Ed Lazowska's talk at Harvard here), I've been thinking about...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Way to Measure WOM
A new way to measure word-of-mouth marketing from McKinsey that includes exposure and impact.
From Putting People First
Book: Storytelling for User Experience
Storytelling for User Experience – Crafting Stories for Better Design By Whitney Quesenbery & Kevin Brooks Rosenfeld Media April 2010 Availability: Paperback +...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neuromarketing List
A new neuromarketing Twitter list being constructed #neuromarketing Online here. Looks to have some useful follows.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Frugal and Bandit Innovation
Sammy Haroon in the Global Cognition Blog on Frugal and Bandit Innovation.
From The Eponymous Pickle