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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
Augmented Maps
Ted talk on augmented maps in Bing from the Snapdragon developer and how it includes Twitter, Flickr and other geolocated blog content Have not taken a look at...
From Wild WebMink
Blog Moved
A reminder: If you are following me here on blogs.sun.com, please change your bookmarks and feeds to read http://webmink.com instead, as I have moved all my blogging...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-02-27
Europe 'will not accept' three strikes in Acta treaty While this is all good, it is not sufficient as ACTA will address far more...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Being Investigated?
My former colleague John Sopko has published a paper from the Washington Legal Foundation titled
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
NASA Be A Martian Pathfinder Innovation Challenge
Back last November I posted a short link to NASA
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Homophone Lessons
Squids make great examples.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Recommending New Things
New ideas in adding novelty to recommendation algorithms. Have always thought that accuracy is not everything. I don't always want the same thing, give me something...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Creating a Location-Based Service
In Adage, I like the basic idea. Especially since the more I have looked at services like FourSquare, the more I think there is a big idea that is being missed....
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Random Number Generation Method
Having a good random number generator is critical for constructing simulation methods to build models. Some new reported progress is reported:" ... New Approach...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Policy Highlights from Communications of the ACM - February 2010 (Vol. 53, No. 2)
Below is a list of items with policy relevance from the February issue of Communications of the ACM. As always, much of the material in CACM is premium content,...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Recognizing Excellence in Education
The TA Mentor program here at Carleton has been run in some departments for a few years now, but is in its first year in the School of Computer Science. One of...
From Computational Complexity
Is Math too hard?
Are humans good at Math? In the movie Oh God Book II God (played by George Burns) says that Math was a mistake, I made it too hard!. While I am reluctant to...
From My Biased Coin
Conflicts of Interest, Yet Again
I was just asked to serve on the ACM CoNEXT 2010 PC (I'll have to think about it -- NSDI,SIGCOMM, and CoNEXT all in one year?), and the chairs (Muriel Medard and...
From Schneier on Security
Me on Surveillance Cameras
My fourth essay for CNN.com, on surveillance cameras. The Al-Mabhouh assassination made a nice news hook.
From Putting People First
Content strategy
Content strategy is more or less on the same trajectory as social media was three years ago, argues Kristina Halvorson (of Brain Traffic). “I think it
From Putting People First
Streams of content, limited attention
Danah Boyd, a social media researcher at Microsoft Research, wrote a long piece for UX Magazine on “what it means to be ‘in flow’ in an information landscape defined...
From Putting People First
Women and mobile
Women & Mobile: A Global Opportunity is a study on the mobile phone gender gap in low and middle-income countries. Mobile phone ownership in low and middle-income...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Multiple Agent Decision Making
From the CACM, very instructive piece:Making Decisions Based on the Preferences of Multiple Agents, by Vincent ConitzerComputer scientists have made great strides...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wearable Patches Contain Scannable Code
Stan Dyck points me to this example of a scannable code that can be placed on clothing and then read from a smartphone. Cleverly called in the image an 'extended...
From Schneier on Security