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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
Vatican Admits Perfect Security is Both Impossible and Undesirable
This is refreshing: Father Lombardi said it was not realistic to think the Vatican could ensure 100% security for the Pope and that security guards appeared to...
From Computational Complexity
Voting on Mathematical Truths: The Axiom of Det.
One of the founders of Conservapedia (a conservative alternative to Wikipedia) said the following on The Colbert Report: There is an absolute truth. People don't...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reaping Outside Innovation at Procter
A short ABC article on how Procter & Gamble reaps and filters external innovation. A bit too much on the ridiculous and sensational, not enough on how these ideas...
From Michael Nielsen
Biweekly links for 01/04/2010
How We Miscalculated | Print Article | Newsweek.com Andy Grove on the Intel floating-point bug. Interesting throughout, including this comment on how insulated...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Enduring Twitter
David Carr on why Twitter will endure. I agree that something like it will. Blogs take too much time and Twitter is about the right level of commitment for the...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
New Years Resolutions
* Each of us talked to one school administrator and expressed our concerns about the lack of programs available for interested students? * Each of us took a moment...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links January 4th 2010
Happy New Year everyone. Are you back to school or work yet? I took two weeks off and really enjoyed myself. I didn’t spend much time on the Internet as usual so...
From Schneier on Security
Christmas Bomber: Where Airport Security Worked
With all the talk about the failure of airport security to detect the PETN that the Christmas bomber sewed into his underwear -- and to think I've been using the...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Database Questions for 2010: What
I started 2009 with an interest in Web 2.0 OLAP and collaborative data processing. The field of collaborative data processing has progressed tremendously. Last...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-01-04
YouTube - SunStudioSessions's Channel This is a great YouTube channel. Some fantastic artists, complete with interesting videoMusic...
From Putting People First
Latest issue of Interactions Magazine now available
The January-February edition of Interactions Magazine — exploring the evolving nature of experiences, people and technology — is online and some articles are available...
From Putting People First
Race shapes teen Facebook and MySpace adoption, says danah boyd
Two years ago, ethnographer danah boyd had the blogosphere abuzz with her look at class-based divisions between teens on MySpace and Facebook, writes Dana Oshiro...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Where the jobs are
Every second year, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics provides a ten-year forecast of job growth in all fields of employment.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mapping the World
Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are an old interest of mine. They were used in the enterprise a number of times. Integrity Logic provides a nice view ofShuttle...
From Putting People First
The Apparatgeist calls
How you use your mobile phone has long reflected where you live. But the spirit of the machines may be wiping away cultural differences, claims The Economist. The...
From Putting People First
Now even medical doctors are launching design firms
Jay Parkinson, MD, MPH, is a doctor in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, who uses his experience in both clinical and preventive medicine to design consumer experiences and...
From Putting People First
Free yourself from oppression by technology
That new phone or laptop may be giving you a warm glow, but beware a stealth attack on your happiness, warns Yair Amichai-Hamburger in The New Scientist. “Our lifestyles...
From Putting People First
Mobiles offer new view of reality
The BBC thinks that Augmented reality (AR) “is set to explode” this year. “Futurologist Ian Pearson predicts an explosion of such services next year. “I’m surprised...
From Putting People First