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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
Geotagging the Future
Daniel Inniss makes some useful comments on Geotagging and business:'Geotagging the Future with Foursquare, Gowalla and TwitterWritten Location based services are...
From Schneier on Security
USB Combination Lock
Here's a promotional security product designed by someone who knows nothing about security. The USB drive is "protected" by a combination lock. There are only...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
External-memory shuffling in linear time?
You can sort large files while using little memory. The Unix sort tool is a widely available implementation of this idea. Files are written to disk sequentially...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Eric Brewer wins ACM
Eric Brewer has won the ACM – Infosys Foundation Award “for his contributions to the design and development of highly scalable Internet services.”
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Chuck Thacker wins Turing Award
Chuck Thacker has won the ACM A.M. Turing Award (quoting ACM) “for his pioneering design and realization of the Alto, the first modern personal computer, and the...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Thoughts On AP CS Principles
The Advanced Placement Computer Science exam is one of the smallest and least diverse members of the Advanced Placement suite of College Board exams. Very few minorities...
From Computational Complexity
Central Website for FOCS as a whole (guest post)
(Guest Post by Paul Beame) There is now a central website for the FOCS conference as a whole here!! In addition to links to the most recent and upcoming...
From The Eponymous Pickle
In-Store Marketing Measurements
In AdAge: A favorite topic of mine: Shopping Aisles at Cutting Edge of Consumer Research and Tech: They Learned It From You: Marketers Working to Better Understand...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 15 March 2010
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From My Biased Coin
Kindle Textbooks
I've had a couple of people point out to me that Probability and Computing: Randomized Algorithms and Probabilistic Analysis (my book) is now available on Kindle...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
National Research Council Announces Prizes in Cyberdetterence Research
The Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) of the National Research Council (NRC) has announced prizes for research in cyberdeterrence. The CSTB...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Relentless Growth of Online Shopping
In FastCompany: The continuing growth of online shopping. Physical stores continuing to link up. -
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of March 15
March 16 Hearing: The Research and Science Education Subcommittee of the House Science and Technology Committee will hold a hearing on broadening participation...
From Schneier on Security
Typosquatting
"Measuring the Perpetrators and Funders of Typosquatting," by Tyler Moore and Benjamin Edelman: Abstract. We describe a method for identifying "typosquatting",...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Designing a Hybrid Card Game
I'm working on a design for a card game that incorporates a mobile device into the game play. It's for my game design class final project, which is intended to...
From Wild WebMink
Blog Moved - Reminder Again
Just a reminder that this blog has now moved to Wild Webmink where you will be most welcome to join me from now on.
From The Eponymous Pickle
SXSW Conference Stream
I notice that there has been more than usual buzz about the SXSW conference (South by Southwest) this year. Its a set of interactive, film, and music festivalsits...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Valuing Spontaneity
I was surprised a while back by getting a number of birthday wishes in a social networking package from people whose names I did not immediately recognize. I quickly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Foursquare for Business
An interesting item on on the Foursquare space about business applications for the social networking game. Includes a number of examples of businesses doing promotions...
From The Noisy Channel