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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 David Johnson, Knuth Prize Winner
I'm pleased to hear that David Johnson has won the Knuth Prize for "his contributions to theoretical and experimental analysis of algorithms." David has done a...
From Computational Complexity
Can The Hill Cipher ever be used?
Alice and Bob want to sent a message so that even if Eve intercepts it, she cannot tell what it is. We will allow Alice and Bob a short private meeting to exchange...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Implications of Mobile in Retail
Have been members of the non-profit GS1 for many years, download their new excellent 34-page paper on Mobile retail. Also had a conversation with Joe Horwood today...
From The Eponymous Pickle
An Update on Google Knol
Around now since 2007, Google's Knol was described as a Wikipedia killer, but has seen little commentary for some time. I was surprised to see this article which...
From Schneier on Security
Tom Engelhardt on Fear on Terrorism
Nice essay. Similar sentiment from Newsweek.
From Putting People First
Changing environmental behaviour
Brook Lyndhurst, an independent research and strategy consultancy, based in London, UK, works on projects that are concerned with understanding, promoting and delivering...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What does it mean to be a computer geek?
Well Barbie has a new career as a computer engineer. She looks pretty cool in her Binary patterned blouse, Bluetooth headset, net book and PDA. Well there is that...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Who the heck got Universities into the email business?
My current employer, UQAM, refuses to allow email forwarding. Students would rather forward their emails to their existing GMail accounts, for example. And the...
From Computational Complexity
Knuth Prize for 2009: David Johnson
Dave Johnson Won the KNUTH PRIZE for 2009: click here I can't add much to the article linked to except to say that it is well deserved. The Wikipedia entry...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile Apps Changing Retail
A good set of examples in Adage of smartphone Apps that could change retail. Nice breadth of examples, all worth a look, though I would add others. There is still...
From Putting People First
UK innovation policy should refocus on customers
UK Government innovation policy should be refocused to reflect the crucial role played by customers in stimulating and funding the development of new hi-tech companies...
From My Biased Coin
Teaching Bloom Filters
As I finished my lecture today for my undergraduate algorithms and data structures course, after spending about half an hour explaining Bloom filters and what they...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Facebook will Reveal about You
I used to advise people in the early days of the Web about the dangers of revealing too much online. Things have gone far beyond those early days, but it is always...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Coupon Use Beats Newspapers
In Mediapost an intriguing post that further confirms the advance of the digital coupon. ' ... says the report, redemption values on its digital offering outstripped...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apps for the Army Challenge
I worked for the DOD at the Pentagon years ago, they were a very innovative group, its good to see this kind of collaborative work going on. On Apps for the Army...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Optimizing Your Enterprise
The current Baseline Mag has a lengthy article on Business intelligence and analytics, with some useful integrated case studies. ' ... In a world that
From Schneier on Security
More on the Al-Madhouh Assassination
Interesting essay by a former CIA field officer on the al-Mabhouh assassination: The truth is that Mr. Mabhouh's assassination was conducted according to the book...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Say That Again in English
One of the first things I do in the morning is check Twitter. I start with my calendar and my email of course. You never know what your boss may have sent you overnight...
From Wild WebMink
Links Feed Turned Off
I've now turned off the automatic posting to this blog from Delicious. Daily links will now only appear over on my new subscribe to it!
From The Eponymous Pickle