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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
Ray Kurzweil's Future
Ray Kurzweil, noted technologist and futurist, predicts how technology will change us by 2020.-
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Programming Challenge 4 Girls (PC4G) Event in New Zealand
In November this year, a series of challenges using Alice was held at 4 venues around New Zealand. The events were staggered as the days were planned so that a...
From My Biased Coin
Avoiding Travel
I'm spending the morning as part of the committee for a thesis defense over in Europe. I'm watching the talk over Skype; we're using a conference call for sound...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Coupon Chief
I recently got a note from Couponchief.com, which lets you search for coupons for online purchase. They write: ' ... Coupon Chief is one of the fastest growing....
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Technical Guidelines Development Committee Meets After Two Year Hiatus
The Technical Guidelines Development Committee (TGDC), responsible to the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) for the drafting guidance for voting system standards...
From Computational Complexity
Guest Post- Women in Theory Workshop
(Tal Rabin requested to post this so I am doing so. This post is essentially her email, so call it a guest post.) There will be a Women In Theory workshop for...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Strategies for Lighting the Fire for Learning
On December 4, I attended a public presentation that was put on for the Seminar in University Teaching, a graduate course at Carleton. Popular psychology professor...
From Schneier on Security
Telcoms Security
A very good four-part series: "Risk and Security in the Telecommunications Industry."
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-12-16
Official Google Australia Blog: Our views on Mandatory ISP Filtering "Exposing politically controversial topics for public debate...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Solar Goose: Solar Lighting Concepts
I attended the first Earth Day in Philadelphia and have always been a big proponent of (voluntarily) saving energy. My colleague Tom Chorman was head of finance...
From Putting People First
As we consume Apples and BlackBerrys, natural world beats a sensory retreat
Technology has drawn us into our interconnected webs, in the office, on the street, on the park bench, to the point that we exist virtually everywhere except in...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Administration Finally Releases Open Government Initiative
After a few months of waiting, the Obama Administration released its Open Government Initiative last week. The initiative was just the start of what appears to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Comparing Real Prices
Michigan economics prof Mark Perry compares prices for a stereo system and for a state of the art TV. In 1958 and in 2009 in hours of wages. Insightful.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rise of Asia
Astute colleague Wim Van de Velde points me to this TEDIndia talk where Hans Rosling uses Gapminder charts to point out the rise of Asia. ' ... Hans Rosling....
From Computational Complexity
Mild Request for Guest Posters.
(Deadline to submit a paper to CCC is Dec 15. Depending on when you read this that could be today or in the past.) As you all know from Lance's last post, Lance...
From Schneier on Security
The U.S. Civil Rights Movement as an Insurgency
This is interesting: Most Americans fail to appreciate that the Civil Rights movement was about the overthrow of an entrenched political order in each of the Southern...
From Wild WebMink
? Discrimination?
Tesco apologises over 'ginger jibe' Christmas card I can't help thinking that we're over-keen to identify minorities and caterdiscrimination...
From The Noisy Channel
LinkedIn Faceted Search Now Out Of Beta
LinkedIn started rolling out a beta version of faceted people search back in July. Now it’s officially out of beta, as announced on their blog. I’ve re-posted the...
From My Biased Coin