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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
Micro Industries
Micro Industries is a company that does some very innovative work in the area of retail signage. We worked with them in the innovation centers. They now have...
From The Noisy Channel
Google and Transparency
Let me preface this post with a clear disclaimer: I work at Google, but the views I express on this blog are my own personal views. Last week, Google head of webspam...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Do School Libraries Need Books?
A debate in the NYT: I am the patron of a regional library that just relocated to a new modern building. There are fewer shelves of books now. There is an enormous...
From CERIAS Blog
Making the CWE Top 25, 2010 Edition
As last year, I was glad to be able to participate in the making of the CWE Top 25. The 2010 Edition has been more systematically and methodically produced than...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Browse Popular Science
You can now browse online the last 137 years of the magazine Popular Science for free. A good view of previous times. Pretty outrageous predictions at times, I...
From The Noisy Channel
Not All Queries Are Created Equal
A topic with which I developed an obsession in my last few years at Endeca is understanding how to predict query difficulty and performance–performance in the information...
From The Noisy Channel
HCIR 2010: A Pre-Announcement
We’re gearing up to officially announce the HCIR 2010 workshop, but I wanted to give folks here a heads up, as well as to put out a call for a volunteer. The Fourth...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hand Touchscreen
Body acoustics can turn hand into a tochscreen. Work at Carnegie Mellon and Microsoft produces a system called Skinput.
From The Eponymous Pickle
WSJ on the Style of Inforamational Graphics
Good review on this new book. A style guide on how to do mainly quantitative graphics. " .. Dona Wong, who had stints on the graphics teams at both the Wall Street...
From Putting People First
Can understanding human irrationality help solve our energy problems?
Behavioral economics is used to examine how consumers make decisions about everything from their life savings to which brands of jam they select in a supermarket...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Foursquare for Loyalty in CIncinnati
In today's local paper a good article on the use of the social location game Foursquare in the Cincinnati area. Good to see the idea being explored outside big...
From The Eponymous Pickle
March/April Analytics Magazine
New in analytics magazine for March/April Analytics is brought to you by INFORMS (www.informs.org) -- the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences...
From Wild WebMink
Blog Moved - Reminder
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 My Biased Coin
SIGCOMM papers
A commenter asked me a while back to say what I thought of the SIGCOMM submissions this year. I'm finally getting around to reading and reviewing. (First round...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Teaching Arts Students to Like Computer Science
I might be very well the first person to request to teach COMP 1001. That's the course that arts and social science students take to get the hang of computers and...
From Schneier on Security
Another Interview with Me
I gave this one two days ago, at the RSA Conference.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Time to Take the Internet Seriously
Very thoughtful piece in the Edge by computer scientist David Gelernter, author of the book Mirror Worlds. Is it time to take the Internet seriously, or just let...
From Schneier on Security
Mariposa Botnet Shut Down
The Spanish police arrested three people in connection with the 13-million-computer Mariposa botnet.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson