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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 Noisy Channel
Real Time Search Is Personal
The other day, I promised in a comment thread that I’d write about what I see as real use cases for real-time search. As it happens, I’m experiencing one right...
From Schneier on Security
Security vs. Sustainability in Building Construction
Interesting: Any facility executive involved in the design of a new building would agree that security is one important goal for the new facility. These days,...
From Schneier on Security
Google vs. China
I'm not sure what I can add to this: politically motivated attacks against Gmail from China. I've previously written about hacking from China. Shishir Nagaraja...
From My Biased Coin
New TCS postdocs/jobs website at CCI
There's a new page http://intractibility.princeton.edu/jobs/ that was set up as a centralized location for advertising postdocs and jobs for theoretical computer...
From Putting People First
Information and communication technologies vital for social inclusion
The World Economic Forum today released its study on Scaling Opportunity: Information and Communications Technology for Social Inclusion, an analysis of how ICT...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 18 January 2010
When it rains it pours! I spent last week at FETC in Florida but kept a weather eye out for interesting things to pass on via Twitter (follow me on Twitter @AlfredTwo...
From Schneier on Security
Prison Escape Artist
Clever ruse: When he went to court for hearings, he could see the system was flawed. He would arrive on the twelfth floor in handcuffs and attached at the waist...
From Computational Complexity
Sam Roweis (1972-2010)
Sam Roweis, an NYU CS professor specializing in machine learning, took his own life last Tuesday night. Jennifer Linden and Maneesh Sahani set up a weblog to share...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Checking in to Retail SmartPhone Potential
Since my early days in retail innovation centers I have been thinking about how the inevitable success of location-aware smart phones can directly introduce the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reading and Blogging the NYT
Its inevitable. Rumors abound on the NYT going behind a pay wall. Althouse has some good comments, as a blogger, on the use of linking central news sources. You...
From Putting People First
danah boyd on why Zuckerberg is wrong to say
Ethnographer danah boyd, a Microsoft researcher, argues that Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg is wrong saying that ‘the age of privacy is over’. “Privacy isn’t a technological...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Internet of Things
New SmartPhone developments could fundamentally change the nature of shopping. In ReadWriteWeb ' ... a series called Mobile Web Meets Internet of Things this week...
From Putting People First
Are mobile phones Africa
Whether it’s checking market prices of crops, transferring money or simply making a call, mobile phones are transforming Africa. But, asks The Guardian, could this...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Comparing the GDP of EU and US States
A most interesting comparison of the per capita GDP of US States versus EU Countries. Via economist Mark J. Perry.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sarcasm Punctuation Mark
It seems like a futile effort, but a firm has patented and now sells a sarcasm punctuation mark, hoping to profit from all of that misunderstanding in text andEsperanto...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Games and the Three Levels of Design
Continuing to read Donald Norman's Emotional Design, I am finding the three levels of design most of the book is based on to be very useful, especially when thinking...
From Schneier on Security
Fixing Intelligence Failures
President Obama, in his speech last week, rightly focused on fixing the intelligence failures that resulted in Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab being ignored, rather than...
From Putting People First