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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 My Biased Coin
Congratulations to Chuck Thacker
The news has hit the wires -- Chuck Thacker is this year's Turing Award winner.I had the great pleasure of getting to know Chuck while I worked at DEC SRC. He's...
From Computational Complexity
HW policies: PROS and CONS
The last blog entry had lots of good comments about different HW policies. I enumerate them and say PROS and CONS Hard Deadline. PRO- uniform, no favoritism,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IdeaConnection
I had a conversation with IdeaConnection recently. Have been getting their newsletter for some time and it is informative. See their writup on open innovation...
From My Biased Coin
EC Papers Up
The list of accepted papers for EC is up. I'm happy to say that our Swoopo paper made the list. I was surprised in the acceptance letter to find that there were...
From Schneier on Security
Guide to Microsoft Police Forensic Services
The "Microsoft Online Services Global Criminal Compliance Handbook (U.S. Domestic Version)" (also can be found here, here, and here) outlines exactly what Microsoft...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Arrays of Controls
Over the weekend for the second time in about three weeks a teacher asked my about creating arrays of controls in Visual basic .NET. Interestingly enough both teachers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predict Marketing ROI with Next-Gen Planning Tools
I repeat this invitation. We worked with Thinkvine in the enterprise and remain impressed with their work.March 18, 2010 | 2 p.m. ET | Duration: 1 HourRegister...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Startup Visa
In the World Flattener: Sammy Haroon posts about Startup Visa to USA. Always provocative. -
From The Eponymous Pickle
Power from Nanotubes
From research at MIT: Big power from tiny wires: New discovery shows carbon nanotubes can produce powerful waves that could be harnessed for new energy systems....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Statistics and Behavioral Modeling
Intriguing article, by Steve Miller. I have now dealt with these 'two cultures' a number of times in various enterprises. This article and the included link are...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Phone Lip-Reading
Can you have a phone read your lips and interpret what you say? Silent verbal communications. Research in that area.-
From Wild WebMink
Sundown
After nearly 10 years, I've now left Sun. Thanks to everyone for following my blog for all these years. Please follow my new blog, Wild Webmink, where I have posted...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Marketing Computer Science Courses
I joked as I left work on Friday that it was "my day of shame". I am responsible for recruiting students for a government-funded course that offers MCSE (Microsoft...
From Schneier on Security
Eating a Flash Drive
How not to destroy evidence: In a bold and bizarre attempt to destroy evidence seized during a federal raid, a New York City man grabbed a flash drive and swallowed...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Language, Mathematics and Programming
Even if you have extensive training in Mathematics, the average Mathematics paper is undistinguishable from the ramblings of a madman. Many of these papers seek...
From Computational Complexity
A HW policy- MORAL due date.
This semester I am using the following HW policy. HW is due on Tuesday. However, your dog died! Hence you get an extension to Thursday. That is, for all people...
From Putting People First
Ethnography informs text-free UI for illiterate people
Indrani Medhi, an Associate Researcher at Microsoft Research India where she works in the Technology for Emerging Markets team, designed a text free user interface...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lessons from a Restaurant App
Well stated, I like simple apps with a recognizable and uniform interface. Because mobile often means we don't have the time to learn a new user interface on the...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM