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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 Putting People First
New social innovation lab at Darden business school
(From a Darden press release) On March 19 the Darden School of Business [Charlottesville, VA, USA] and the Batten Institute [an academic research center of the...
From My Biased Coin
Stuff in press
The Economist has a special section this month devoted to The Data Deluge. (Much of it may still be behind their firewall.) Many computer scientists are quoted...
From Computational Complexity
CCC 2010 papers posted (I know- Old News)
As Lance tweeted, the papers for CCC 2010 are posted here. The Guest Speakers look AWESOME!: Knot, Raz, Regev. Also Banquet speaker Hartmanis AWESOME! Based...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Is programming
According to student evaluations, most of my students appreciate short programming assignments. Yet, every year, some students think that programming is below them...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of March 1
March 2 Hearing: The Human Rights and the Law Subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on global internet freedom 10 a.m., 226 Dirksen...
From Putting People First
Internet on mobiles: evolution of usability and user experience
Anne Kaikkonen, a UI product manager at Nokia, recently presented her doctoral dissertation on the usability and user experience of the mobile internet. Internet...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-03-01
BBC blocks open source software from iPlayer video service This is a very sad development from the UK's public service broadcaster...
From Putting People First
Interaction
Many videos of the Interaction10 conference are now online. Here are the one of the speakers mentioned in the recent review by Experientia partner Jan-Christoph...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 1 March 2010
Is it March that comes in like a lion and out like a lamb? Well up here in New Hampshire February left like a lion. At one point Thursday some 40% of the state...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Posterous
A friend recommended the Posterous package some time ago. It's a quick and easy way to set up a blog from email and mobile. I will not be replacing this blog, but...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smartphones and PCs
Post and discussion about how Smartphones will displace PCs. I agree, if I can project from my smartphone when it is needed, and have a means for rapid text entry...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Math Models for Solving Crimes
From recent predictive modeling advances: " ... Most crime happens somewhere familiar to the criminal. Burglars return to the scenes of a crime to replicate the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tableau Examples Blog
A blog of Tableau examples. For example, constructing radial charts.-
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Teaching Computer Science in High School
Continuing on the theme of excellence in education, I would like to briefly reflect on teaching computer science in Ontario high schools. I have to point out that...
From The Noisy Channel
You Can
Lately, I’ve been musing about the Herb Simon quote that launched–or at least popularized–the concepts of information overload and attention economics: in an information...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-02-28
U.K. bill would 'outlaw open Wi-Fi' At a recent debate in the House of Lords on the Digital Economy Bill, a number of amendments...
From Putting People First
New media and its superpowers
Mimi Ito, cultural anthropologist and associate researcher at the University of California Humanities Research Institute, co-led a MacArthur Foundation-funded three...
From Putting People First
When American and European ideas of privacy collide
An Italian ruling against Google highlights the clash between Europe
From The Eponymous Pickle