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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 Schneier on Security
Penny Shooter Business Card
Nice. Of course, this means that the TSA will start banning wallets on airplanes.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
The Peacock Dances
January poses two challenges for high school computer science programs. For many high school sophomores and juniors, January can mean scheduling decisions forfun...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of January 25
January 25 Meeting The Election Assistance Commission is holding a meeting to handle regular business. 1 p.m., 1225 New York Avenue, Suite 150, Washington January...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More CPG Activity in e-Commerce
Large CPG has always had a reluctance to interfere with their very profitable existing channels by setting up their own e-commerce stores, lest brick-and-mortar...
From Computational Complexity
When is a theorem really proven?
One of the comments on this blog pointed out correctly that for a theorem to be accepted by the community is not a Eureka Moment. It is a social process. The author...
From The Noisy Channel
Workshop on Search and Social Media (SSM 2010)
The 3rd Annual Workshop on Search in Social Media (SSM 2010) will be held on Wednesday, February 3rd at the Polytechnic Institute in Brooklyn, NY. It’s co-located...
From Schneier on Security
The Abdulmutallab that Should Have Been Connected
The notion that U.S. intelligence should have "connected the dots," and caught Abdulmutallab, isn't going away. This is a typical example: So you'd need comeresponds...
From Wild WebMink
? Making A Stand
Will Google stand up to France and Italy, too? The issue at stake here is what some call "common-carrier status" for networks....
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting links 25 January 2010
Last week
From Apophenia
Public by Default, Private when Necessary
This post was originally written for the DML Central Blog. If you're interested in Digital Media and Learning, you definitely want to check this blog out. With...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Tom Friedman on innovation and National Lab Day
Tom Friedman has a wonderful op-ed in today’s New York Times.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ehrenberg-Bass Institute
We have been sponsor company members of the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute at the University of South Australia for a number of years. Professor Byron Sharp and hismore...
From My Biased Coin
On Formatting
Matt Welsh's recent amusing-but-also-sad post on having two recent conference submissions rejected for violating format requirements reminded me how much I hate...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Why not Just Fill in the Blanks
In the NYT, like a flat tax, great direction, but not for tax preparers: ' ... It
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intelligence of Analytics
Short post and podcast in E-Commerce Times on developments that are improving analytics. Covering some of the dilemma today of having more data, yet there seems...
From Schneier on Security
Me on Chinese Hacking and Enabling Surveillance
CNN.com just published an essay of mine on China's hacking of Google, an update of this essay.
From Wild WebMink
? Protecting Freedom
U.S. enables Chinese hacking of Google Schneier points out that the feature China hacked in GMail was only there because the US...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Are you a Linchpin or a Cog in the Machine?
Always interested in what makes innovative organizations work. Josh Bernoff of Forrester in the GroundSwell blog reviews and outlines Seth Godin's new book, forthcoming...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fundamental Barriers to Sales
Dave Knox does an excellent job talking about the fundamentals to sales success. We dealt with it every day in the enterprise, he makes a good point about the inherent...
From Putting People First