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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
Anchoring Irrational Decisions
On influencing subsequent decisions:Professor Ariely describes some experiments which demonstrated something he calls
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Google Books Narrows its Scope in Proposed Amended Settlement
The Google Books project, where the company scans books, indexes them, and makes either snippets, selections, or the whole work available online, has a long legal...
From My Biased Coin
Retirement
No, not for me. But Harvard has announced its plans to encourage faculty to retire. I won't call it an "early retirement" package, since it is for people over...
From Wild WebMink
? Stuff That Matters
Link posting has been offline for a few days while I have been fighting with delicious & Roller trying to work out why they wouldn't make nice. In the end I created...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Job ad: Research Chair in Software and Knowledge Engineering
The University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM) is looking for candidates to fill a level 2 (junior) Canada Research Chair in Software and Knowledge Engineering. You...
From Computational Complexity
The Probability of P=NP
Dean Foster asked me for a probability that P=NP. Now P=NP is not a probabilistic event, either P=NP or P?NP (if it's independent it's still equal or unequal in...
From Putting People First
Designing the Intel Reader
In a long article, the people in charge of the Intel Reader discuss the entire user-centred process of designing a new device for the blind or visually impaired...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Open Source in Healthcare
Recently I mentioned a study that said that IT provided few savings in healthcare. Here is a post on a site caled HealthtechTopia: 25 Open Source Software Projects...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Coke Zero's Facial Matching
A fun little application from Coke Zero, celebrating its similarity to regular Coke, will find people in via Faceback that look similar to you.
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Google Analytics Features
I am just catching up in the newly announced Google Analytics Features, now available to all users. There will be explanatory webinars next week. Although there...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
CS Ed Week - How Will You Celebrate?
Cameron Wilson announced CS Education Week in his blog post October 22, 2009. You've had a month to think about it, so what are you going to do to celebrate this...
From Putting People First
Here comes the citizen co-producer
The austere public budgets that will come out of the financial crisis offer, as a silver lining, a renaissance in cooperative citizen engagement in the supply of...
From Putting People First
Roger Martin about design thinking (video)
In this video of Make/Think, the recent AIGA Design Conference, Roger Martin, dean of the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, makes...
From Putting People First
Danah Boyd and Sherry Turkle video interviews
Danah Boyd, a social media researcher at Microsoft Research, and Sherry Turkle, MIT Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology, were interviewed...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Cognition All Around Me
Today was the last day of classes for Computers and Cognition, a course that's inspired a couple of posts here, and that I signed up for, for credit, even though...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Signals from Anti-Social Users
In the Noisy Channel, as mostly a consumer of search technology I have to worry about the bias of search, major and minor, my own needs ... sometimes casual sometimes...
From Schneier on Security
Sprint Provides U.S. Law Enforcement with Cell Phone Customer Location Data
Wired summarizes research by Christopher Soghoian: Sprint Nextel provided law enforcement agencies with customer location data more than 8 million times between...
From My Biased Coin
Tight Thresholds for Cuckoo Hashing via XORSAT
As I promised sometime back, we now have a paper (up on the arxiv) giving the thresholds for cuckoo hashing, a problem that had been open and was part of my survey...
From The Noisy Channel