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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
Google Buzz Update
Good Adage Media article which updates Google Buzz. Includes excellent stats on Buzz usage versus Twitter, Facebook, Wave and Myspace. The stats show that it...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Parallel Mathematica
Writing parallel programs to take advantage of new multicore processors is seen as a very esoteric thing. Jeff Todd of Wolfram Research just sent me a more information...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile Location in Retail
Treosystems is a company that we worked with in our innovation centers. A leader in the accurate gathering and delivery of product location and wayfinding in retail...
From Schneier on Security
Security for Implantable Medical Devices
Interesting study: "Patients, Pacemakers, and Implantable Defibrillators: Human Values and Security for Wireless Implantable Medical Devices," Tamara Denning,Abstract...
From The Eponymous Pickle
TweetDive Launched
Of interest, a good practical example of associative memories: " ... Saffron's launch of Tweetdive, an open-source demo app showing how associative memory technology...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Traffic Data
Nice visuals in Flowingdata on traffic. Not so much about analysis, but about what the flow of traffic looks like. Augmenting data with color can make insight jump...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teachers Don
I was invited to be on a panel at Northeastern University (I was a last minute fill-in but happy to attend) talking about Teaching With Technology. Now the difference...
From Wild WebMink
? Inside Politics
Shame Peter Mandelson didn’t download some common sense Concise and sensible article is pretty damning of Mandelson over DeBill, and rightly so: “Legislators have...
From Schneier on Security
Storing Cryptographic Keys with Invisible Tattoos
This idea, by Stuart Schechter at Microsoft Research, is -- I think -- clever: Abstract: Implantable medical devices, such as implantable cardiac defibrillators...
From Computational Complexity
New Constructive Aspects of the Lov
Guest Post by Bernhard Haeupler The Lovász Local Lemma (LLL), slightly simplified, states that: Given a set of “bad” events, if for every event A there exists,...
From The Noisy Channel
Google Follow Finder
I know there’s lots of interesting stuff coming out at the Chirp Twitter developer conference this week, and I’m still catching up on it all. But I am happy to...
From The Noisy Channel
Deadline to Register for HCIR Challenge
If you are interested in participating in the HCIR Challenge, please let me know as soon as possible–and in any case by April 30th. The New York Times and the LDC...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Qinghai Quake and Robots
What is it with disasters? They
From The Eponymous Pickle
Buzz Adds Sharing Button
New ways to publish buzz. Have now been using Buzz since its launch. Have been pushing these blog posts and Tweets to it. Works fine among my Google mail correspondents...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Library of Congress to Archive Tweets
The US Library of Congress has announced that it will archive all public tweets. See more in it's blog. To be mine-able, for ever and ever, all your mundane thoughts...
From Schneier on Security
Matt Blaze Comments on his 15-Year-Old "Afterword"
Fifteen years ago, Matt Blaze wrote an Afterword to my book Applied Cryptography. Here are his current thoughts on that piece of writing.
From Computational Complexity
Tom L DVD and Birthday and You Tube and...
April 9 was Tom Lehrer's 82nd birthday! To celebrate I give you breaking news that a Tom L DVD was released April 13, 2010. It seems to have some videos of him...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmenting City Visits
From the CACM: Augmented Reality Brings Movie Magic to City Visits: " ... Using a combination of personalized location-based services and augmented reality, in...
From Putting People First
Psychologist Kahneman on experience and memory
Using examples from vacations to colonoscopies, Nobel laureate and founder of behavioral economics Daniel Kahneman reveals in a February 2010 lecture at TED how...
From Schneier on Security