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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
Credit Card Reading with IPhone
Always interested in smartphone sensor ideas, here is another (via Stan Dyck) ... Jack Dorsey, Twitter Cofounder's new idea, a dongle type sensor that plugs into...
From The Noisy Channel
Forget Real-Time, Give Us Over Time!
In a recent announcement, Twitter Platform / API Product Manager Ryan Sarver tells us that Twitter is: committed to providing a framework for any company big or...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bad Technology Predictions
It's the time of the year for predictions. In the WSJ, some particularly bad and notorious ones I had mostly heard of before. Having lived through some of these...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Keeping It Simple
Sample code is a great way to learn how to do things in computer programming. The problem for many beginners is that a lot of sample code is written by professionals...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-12-30
Is OpenOffice.org a Threat? Microsoft Thinks So Fascinating insight gleaned from "Situations Vacant" shows just how much pain OpenOffice...
From Schneier on Security
Quantum Cryptography Cracked
Impressive: This presentation will show the first experimental implementation of an eavesdropper for quantum cryptosystem. Although quantum cryptography has been...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Lessons in Lego
Last month the students in my high school collected cans of food for a local food bank. The cans were to be packed into boxes and distributed for the Thanksgiving...
From Schneier on Security
Me and the Christmas Underwear Bomber
I spent a lot of yesterday giving press interviews. Nothing I haven
From The Eponymous Pickle
Collaborative Analytics
The emerging practice of collaborative analytics. Not a new idea, but more systematized by some vendors. Analytics have never been a solitary activity, they are...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stronger Mobile Component to Online
In Adage, a short article on where digital marketing is heading.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Technical Analogies
Over the years I have frequently had to work with new hires and executives to describe changes in information technologies, especially game changing ideas likethis...
From Schneier on Security
Change Blindness
Interesting video demonstrating change blindness: the human brain's tendency to ignore major visual changes. The implications for security are pretty serious. ...
From Apophenia
Race and Social Network Sites: Putting Facebook's Data in Context
A few weeks ago, Facebook's data team released a set of data addressing a simple but complex question: How Diverse is Facebook? Given my own work over the last...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented Reality at Metaio
Some interesting thoughts in ReadWriteWeb on the status of Augmented Reality leader Metaio which has the package Junaio that I have looked at on Smartphones. They...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Science of Sharing
Sharethis comments on the science of sharing. Some interesting, but rather self-serving statistics.
From Michael Nielsen
Biweekly links for 12/28/2009
The Nobel Laureate Versus the Graduate Student A fascinating account of the 1962 debate between John Bardeen and Brian Josephson about Josephson’s suggestion that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Machine Learning
Google Research blog on quantum machine learning. Machine learning is the essence of artificial intelligence ... make a machine that learns and you can set it loose...
From Schneier on Security
"The Behavioral Economics of Personal Information"
Good survey article by Alessandro Acquisti in IEEE Computer.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Monte Carlo Simulation
Random numbers are fun. Really they are. They are at the heart of gambling for sure but they are also a key part of what is called a Monte Carlo Simulation. These...
From Computational Complexity