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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 Noisy Channel
Thoughts About Online Reputation
Sorry for the long delay between posts. Fortunately the blogosphere has been providing ample reading material about the saga of the lost iPhone and the war of words...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Computational Knowledge Summit
From the Wolfram Blog, a London Computational Knowledge Summit, being held on June 9. Some interesting topics covered:
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rhymes for Our Times
A long time advertising expert colleague of mine, Norm Levy, who pioneered a number of marketing techniques used broadly in an enterprise I was entrenched in,See...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Mining and Infection Control
A piece from the ACM on infection control using data mining, we were also involved in a project that addressed a similar problem. Good description. ' ... According...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
South Africa
I recently had the opportunity to travel to South Africa to talk with teachers and computer science education faculty about the computing curriculum in South African...
From Michael Nielsen
Introduction to the Polymath Project and
In January of 2009, Tim Gowers initiated an experiment in massively collaborative mathematics, the Polymath Project. The initial stage of this project...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-05-01
Red Hat Prevails Against Patent Trolls in Federal District Court Given the warnings from Steve Jobs about the gathering attack on open source, this has the feeling...
From Putting People First
RIM
A Canadian article about Canada’s most important technology company, Research in Motion (the makers of the Blackberry), is always worth delving into. “RIM captured...
From Putting People First
UX book reviews: May 2010
The folks at Johnny Holland have published reviews on no less than four UX related books: Beyond the Usability Lab Authors: Bill Albert, Donna Tedesco, Thomas Tullis...
From Putting People First
Design driven prison design in Belgium
Flanders InShape, the Flemish/Belgian competence centre for product development and industrial design, is supporting a new research project on the development of...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Purity Test
I didn't know this: A Squid is a motorcycle rider who, experienced or not, rides outside his abilities and sets poor examples by attire, propriety, and general...
From Schneier on Security
Homeopathic Bomb
This is funny: The world has been placed on a heightened security alert following reports that New Age terrorists have harnessed the power of homeopathy for evil...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cuddle Hormone
Does the 'Cuddle Hormone' make men more empathetic? And where do such focused solutions end up? " ... "This study is the latest of several that suggest that intranasal...
From Putting People First
Towards a Finnish user needs based service economy
Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund [disclaimer: and Experientia client] has launched a new book, After the Crisis, and a report, Finland: Wellsprings for a Vital...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Procter is Luring Back Customers
A WSJ piece about how P&G is luring back customers in tough times.-
From My Biased Coin
Should There Be a "PostDoc Registration" Rate?
Most every computer science conference has (at least) two rates for registration: students and other. Ostensibly, this is because we want to encourage student...
From Computational Complexity
The Base of Computational Complexity
In the April CACM, George V. Neville-Neil wrote a column on a question about the foundations of computer science:In most areas of science there are a few basicdiscussion...
From Schneier on Security
Fun with Secret Questions
Ally Bank wants its customers to invent their own personal secret questions and answers; the idea is that an operator will read the question over the phone andSome...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
CRA-W Grad Cohort: Tips For Finishing Your PhD
What does finishing a PhD mean and what will it take? Prof. Padma Raghavan, Pennsylvania State University, gave us a fun and informative session on taking it from...
From Wild WebMink