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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 Computational Complexity
COLT and CCC
The COLT (Computational Learning Theory) call for papers is out. (Actually its been out since October but I was only recently emailed it.) For other information...
From Michael Nielsen
Biweekly links for 01/08/2010
Remnants of the Biosphere Extraordinary images from Biosphere 2. …My heart’s in Accra » Yemen and the problems of ADD journalism “In a print age, media pack...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Webcast on Social Interaction in VR
Transformed Social Interaction in Virtual Reality Jeremy Bailenson, founding director of Stanford University's Virtual Human Interaction Lab and an associate professor...
From Putting People First
Experientia article on emerging markets research in Interfaces Magazine
The latest issue of Interfaces Magazine, a quarterly magazine published by Interaction, the specialist HCI group of the British Computer Society (BCS), contains...
From Putting People First
A Creative Commons inspired barter market in Turin, Italy
Two articles from today’s La Stampa newspaper (translation by Mark Vanderbeeken, Experientia): Bargains without money Luca Indemni – Fabrizio Vespa “Leave your...
From Schneier on Security
FIPS 140-2 Level 2 Certified USB Memory Stick Cracked
Kind of a dumb mistake: The USB drives in question encrypt the stored data via the practically uncrackable AES 256-bit hardware encryption system. Therefore, the...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-01-08
Post-Underwear-Bomber Airport Security Show this to every politician: "What we need is security that's effective even if we can't...
From Putting People First
Mobile experts on 2020 trends
Rudy De Waele, co-founder of dotopen, invited a number of mobile experts — including Howard Rheingold, Douglas Rushkoff, Katrin Verclas, Willem Boijens, Fabien...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile Commerce Speed
Evan Schuman surveys the speed of mobile commerce in StoreFrontBackTalk. Are our decisions strongly influenced by mobile site speed?
From Schneier on Security
Post-Underwear-Bomber Airport Security
In the headlong rush to "fix" security after the Underwear Bomber's unsuccessful Christmas Day attack, there's far too little discussion about what worked and what...
From The Eponymous Pickle
DM Broadcast Today
Of Interest: ' ... We're starting the year off strategically at DM Radio, with a show focused on the many values of Data Modeling. Often associated with improving...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Automated Negotiating Agents
Can Automated Agents Proficiently Negotiate With Humans? ... Exciting research in the design of automated negotiators is making great progress. From CACM.While...
From Computational Complexity
DO NOT do this when choosing books for your class
When I took my first graduate course in complexity theory the professor had FOUR books on the REQUIRED FOR THE COURSE list. I bought all four. He said that We...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Sorting Bottles and Boxes with Processing
(Click the link at the bottom to see the game.)One of my classes this term (a game design grad course) requires the use of Processing: Processing is an open source...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Starter Resources for Robotics Learning
iRobot is probably the best known robotics company in the US. Their Roomba vacuuming robots and other household robots are widely used all over the place including...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-01-07
Why an Open Source Community Should not cede Leadership to a Commercial Entity This is a useful part of the discussion, apart from...
From Schneier on Security
Gift Cards and Employee Retail Theft
Retail theft by employees has always been a problem, but gift cards make it easier: At the Saks flagship store in Manhattan, a 23-year-old sales clerk was caught...
From Putting People First
Kenya: Taking money out of banks
Since cellphones became widely used in Kenya five years ago, they’ve become the bank card du jour. The Christian Science Monitor reports. “[In Kenya] with a mobile...
From Putting People First