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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
Food Lion Tracking Shopper Data with Cameras
Several reports on how Food Lion is gathering video data from cameras in-store. They are using the videomining system to gather and analyze results. We talked to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Procter Remains a Global Marketer
In AdAge, a video: Video: At Induction to AAF Hall of Fame, Execs Discuss Importance of Multi-Brand Efforts.
From Computational Complexity
SIGACT Awards
ACM announced the following awards recently. Note that some of the awards are named after theorists and some awards went to theorists. Any comments on theirhere...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
TEDxCarletonU
Last night I attended a TED event for the first time ever. It was a TEDx (i.e. independently organized) event with a Carleton University flavour. The speakers...
From Wild WebMink
? Digging Deeper, Finding Salt
Breakthroughs at last in DeBill? Plus a great historical lesson, why Microsoft isn't the only aggressor against Google, and rare good news from Italy.
From Schneier on Security
Should the Government Stop Outsourcing Code Development?
Information technology is increasingly everywhere, and it's the same technologies everywhere. The same operating systems are used in corporate and government computers...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Exploring Problem-Solving Processes with Smithsonian and Microsoft
Something for the wider education community. I think we need to do more to teach problem-solving and critical thinking through out the curriculum so this online...
From My Biased Coin
Two Inspiring Posts
Inspiring me to blog, that is....Matt blogs about the psychology of program committees. It's one of those things that would be funny except that it's true. So...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ease of Blogging
Walter Riker expands his new blog on The Ease of Blogging. Read it and follow.-
From Schneier on Security
Leaders Make Better Liars
According to new research: The researchers found that subjects assigned leadership roles were buffered from the negative effects of lying. Across all measures,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Prediction Without Markets
Good overview and link to the original Cornell paper, here an abstract of that:' ... Though theoretical and empirical evidence suggests that markets do often outperform...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-03-30
Tech coalition pushes rewrite of online privacy law This is a welcome development, one we need to see replicated in other subject areas and other countries. Most...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cloud Computing
CACM, the worlds preeminent computing professional society, gives a good view of cloud computing: Clearing the clouds away from the true potential and obstacles...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Geolocation Apocalypse?
The AdAge article is provocatively overblown, but the warnings are worth understanding. Geolocation is one of those tech things that are relatively easy with...
From Computational Complexity
Traveling Too Much
Three recent happenings made me think about the amount I travel.I hit the 50K club (Premier Executive) in United for the first time last year. At first I was excited...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-03-30
Tech coalition pushes rewrite of online privacy law This is a welcome development, one we need to see replicated in other subject areas and other countries. Most...
From Schneier on Security
Jeremy Clarkson on Security Guards
Nice essay: Of course, we know why he's really there. He's really there so that if the bridge is destroyed by terrorists, the authorities can appear on the television...
From The Noisy Channel
CFP: HCIR 2010
The 4th Annual Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval (HCIR 2010) will be held in conjunction with the IIiX 2010 conference in New Brunswick...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Playing Video Games Will Not Get You a Job But Creating One Might
Last week I had a chance to hear Larry Hryb (AKA Major Nelson) of the Xbox Live team talk to a group of college students at Microsoft
From Putting People First