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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 Daniel Lemire's Blog
Run-length encoding (part 3)
In Run-length encoding (part 1), I presented the various run-length encoding formats. In part 2, I discussed the coding of the counters. In this third part, I want...
From Putting People First
Does technology need personality?
Cennydd Bowles, a user experience designer at Clearleft in Brighton, England, writes about interaction design, behavioural change, and the design of emotions. “If...
From Schneier on Security
Emotional Epidemiology
This, from The New England Journal of Medicine, sounds familiar: This is the story line for most headline-grabbing illnesses
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-12-09
How stranger danger changed the way children play Strong, sad story that's worth reading. Given the effects are so systemic and...
From Putting People First
Mumbai markings enhance service design
Meena Kadri reports on how lunch and laundry delivery in Mumbai – known as the Dabbawalla and Dhobi Ghat services
From The Eponymous Pickle
Extended Packaging Becomes Reality
From Global standards body GS1, the concept of extended packaging allows the consumer to gather unlimited information from packaging via devices. For example a...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Swash to be Sold Online Only
In an interesting development, P&G has decided to sell its Tide-Swash cleansing products online only. We visited their OSU - Columbus innovation store two years...
From The Eponymous Pickle
John Nash Interview
A video interview of John Nash, game theory theorist, nobelist, and subject of the fictionalized movie: A Beautiful Mind.
From CERIAS Blog
Talking to the Police All the Time
I started writing this entry while thinking about the "if you have nothing to hide, then you have nothing to fear" fallacy. What do you say to someone who says...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Celebrating Computer Science Education Week
A little over a month ago, I wrote about the U.S. Congress passing a resolution designating the first week of December as Computer Science Education Week. As far...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Why You Should Be a Global Warming Skeptic
The debacle of the leaked emails, data and code from the University of East Anglia showed that reputed global warming scientists were petty and cheaters. As always...
From Computational Complexity
Dequantification
After a talk on derandomization at Midwest Theory Day, someone asked if those techniques could also be used in quantum computing. In classical randomness under ...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Creating Your Academic Portfolio
I recently attended a workshop put on by our school's career services department about making an academic portfolio. Now that I'm a PhD student, I really wantcurrent...
From The Eponymous Pickle
First Time Scents
In Neuromarketing: On the memorability of first time scents, as opposed to the well-known Proustian remembrances. We did much innovation in the area of understanding...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
ACM Washington Update, Vol. 13.9 (December 7, 2009)
CONTENTS [1] Newsletter Highlights [2] Computer Science Education Week Launches [3] Cybersecurity Receives Congressional Attention [4] Data Security Bills Approved...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-12-08
Walt Disney World to become twin town of Swindon Speechless. (tags: UK Tourism Disney)Photographers and anti-terrorism...
From Schneier on Security
Using Fake Documents to Get a Valid U.S. Passport
I missed this story: Since 2007, the U.S. State Department has been issuing high-tech "e-passports," which contain computer chips carrying biometric data to prevent...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Line Game at Design Tomorrow's World
This post was written originally for the Carleton University Women in Science and Engineering blog.I just got back from Design Tomorrow's World. The event is very...
From Putting People First
Fixing healthcare in New Zealand
There is a group of people that believe the New Zealand health care system could be designed better than it currently is. That group consists of those who have...
From Putting People First