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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
Some Local Quant Seminars of Interest
Department of Quantitative Analysis and Operations Management, University of Cincinnati SEMINAR 1: Mathletics: The Math of WinningProf. Wayne Winston, Indiana University...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Too Disruptive Innovation?
In HBR Blogs, good illustrative post on this issue:Is This Innovation Too Disruptive for My Firm?One of the trickiest decisions in business is to assess: is this...
From The Eponymous Pickle
In the Days of the Robo Recession
In IEEE Intelligent Systems: Where's My Personal Robot? A good current view of personal robots, their uses and progress and the long way to go before there is...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Attracting a More Diverse Group of Students
In the fall of 2009 Georgia Tech started a high school weekend computing program. We asked for teacher recommendations for students with at least a B average that...
From Computational Complexity
Guest post on ICS 2010 (x of y for some x and y)
(Another Guest post about ICS 2010. From Aaron Sterling. Is he on his way to break the MOST GUEST POSTS IN A YEAR record? I doubt it- I think I hold it from before...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Newton and the Apple
The Royal Society has published a manuscript history of the 18tth century that relates the story of Newton and the inspirational-apple. Though most historians are...
From Schneier on Security
Scanning Cargo for Nuclear Material and Conventional Explosives
Still experimental: The team propose using a particle accelerator to alternately smash ionised hydrogen molecules and deuterium ions into targets of carbon and...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Can Movie Computer Screens Help Us Design Better
NPR did a story recently on the computer screens that we see in the movies. You know the ones with big read
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter and Facebook
A good detailed article on Procter & Gamble's proposed uses of Facebook and social media. ' ... Procter & Gamble Co. loves Facebook after all, and besides encouraging...
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GroupThink
Interesting piece on social pressure and networks, lessons for marketing?" Can you persuade someone to like a product by telling them that it
From The Eponymous Pickle
Seer Technology
I was recently pointed to Seer Technology by a client's vendor connection. Their catchphrase is '... see what can't be seen ...'. Was led to this by the general...
From My Biased Coin
Teaching, Day One
First day of classes for me today. It's "spring", sort of, so I must be teaching Algorithms and Data Structures.Last year there were about 80 students in the class...
From Schneier on Security
More Surveillance in the UK
This seems like a bad idea: Police in the UK are planning to use unmanned spy drones, controversially deployed in Afghanistan, for the "routine" monitoring of...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-01-26
Mozilla, HTML5 video and codecs Excellent start to an explanation of Mozilla's position on H.264 and patent-encumbered CODECs.Mozilla...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
DigiGirlz Days Spring Schedule
Well the latest batch of DigiGirlz Days are starting to get scheduled. What are DigiGirlz Days? They are fun, interesting and educational events, sort of like a...
From Computational Complexity
The First Pseudorandom Generator--Probably
(The following was told to be by Ilan Newman at Dagstuhl 2009. His source was the book The Broken Dice and other mathematical tales of chance.) What was the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented Reality: Hype or Reality?
Good overview article in Computerworld that introduces you to mobile augmented reality, the players and possible directions. Value and adoption by the typical...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Should You Consider an App?
A good 16 page Forrester report, via ATG, requires registration. Is An iPhone Application Right For You?How to Decide if a Mobile Application Should be Part of...
From The Eponymous Pickle