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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
Badge Value and Loyalty
From Knowledge@Wharton, building retail loyalty with carefully chosen brands:'Badge' Value: Finding and Promoting Products That Inspire Customer Loyalty Alex Panos...
From Putting People First
Experientia
Experientia has uploaded all its publicly available videos on specially created Vimeo and YouTube channels. In addition to high-def project videos, you can also...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Charles Thacker Recognized With 2009 ACM A.M. Turing Award
In recognition of his work in developing the modern personal computer, Charles P. Thacker was awarded the 2009 ACM A.M. Turing Award. The Award, which comes with...
From Schneier on Security
More Hollow Coins
A hollowed-out U.S. nickel can hold a microSD card. Pound and euro coins are also available. I blogged about this about a year ago as well.
From Putting People First
Citizens to be at heart of European policy making
A new report published jointly today by the British, Danish and Dutch governments challenges the way European institutions make decisions and argues that smart...
From The Eponymous Pickle
BART Examines the Use of Augmented Reality
I have done some examining of the Junaio package here recently, which permits the overlay of information on top of 3D reality representations on smart phones. Lisa...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Not Afraid to Make Mistakes
Imagine what you would be able to come up with if you were not afraid of making mistakes. Think of the creative results you might see when getting it wrong theTerri...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Avoiding the Hype Virus
Most readers of this blog are early adopters of technology. In the past we would have had to go to a computer store or mail order something to try it out. Now within...
From Schneier on Security
Wikibooks Cryptography Textbook
Over at Wikibooks, they're trying to write an open source cryptography textbook.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Has the Spam War Been Won?
From the CACM Blog. I still certainly still see lots of Spam.-
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Opens Apps Marketplace
Another very innovative idea out of Google: . " ... Google launched on Tuesday evening Google Apps Marketplace, providing a venue for third-party, cloud-based applications...
From Computational Complexity
Theorems that you simply don't believe
There are some theorems that are surprising. I've already blogged on that (I can't seem to find the link). However, there are some theorems that some people simply...
From Schneier on Security
Wanted: Trust Detector
It's good to dream: IARPA's five-year plan aims to design experiments that can measure trust with high certainty -- a tricky proposition for a psychological study...
From Putting People First
Elegant technologies for complex lives
The Socio-Digital Systems (SDS) group of Microsoft Research aims to use an understanding of human values to help to change the technological landscape in the 21st...
From Putting People First
BBC on the future of the internet
Twenty years after the emergence of the world wide web, Rory Cellan-Jones of the BBC World Service’s Discovery series looks at the science driving its third decade...
From Putting People First
IBM
Among cell-phone users in developed countries, IBM is betting the market with the biggest growth potential is…people over the age of 65. Fast Company reports. IBM’s...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NRC Prize for Cyberdeterrence
At the request of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the National Research Council (NRC) is undertaking a project entitled