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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
Emulating Neurons
Interesting Mindhacks summary of a piece on brain emulation on a chip in Discovery. We were closely involved in the whole topic of 'Artificial Neural Nets' back...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-11-11
EC Schedules Sun Oracle Hearing For 25 November I do hope it's actually a hearing and not a kangaroo court. So far the EC spokespeople that have...
From Schneier on Security
Thieves Prefer Stealing Black Luggage
It's obvious why if you think about it: Thieves prefer to steal black luggage because so much of it looks alike. If the thief is caught red-handed by the bag's...
From Putting People First
User stories: a strategic design tool
Collaborative design methods play a key role in aligning team members towards a shared and strategic project vision. In this article Penny Hagen and Michelle Gilmore...
From Schneier on Security
Protecting OSs from RootKits
Interesting research: "Countering Kernel Rootkits with Lightweight Hook Protection," by Zhi Wang, Xuxian Jiang, Weidong Cui, and and Peng Ning. Abstract: Kernel...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Email Netiquette
Can you remember life without email and texting? BITD B4 the EMSG, we talked, in person or on the phone, and wrote in a language that was readable. Now, most...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Persuasive Technologies
FuturePundit on Persuasive Technologies. I am also reminded of Stanford's Persuasive Technology lab, who we worked with several times. And their blog.
From My Biased Coin
Graduate School? How to Decide...
What do people think about students going to work for a year or two and then applying to graduate school? Or applying but then deferring to work for a year or...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Eternal Conference Call
Nick Carr on the Eternal Conference call. I think I am still on that call. Insights on asynchrony versus synchrony in communications. -
From Computational Complexity
Multi-Agent Biological Systems and Nat Algorithms Workshop (Guest Post)
Guest Post from Aaron Sterling Multi-Agent Biological Systems and the Natural Algorithms Workshop I attended the Natural Algorithms Workshop on November...
From Schneier on Security
Is Antivirus Dead?
Security is never black and white. If someone asks, "for best security, should I do A or B?" the answer almost invariably is both. But security is always a trade...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Adoption of RFID
This issue has been on the table since at least 2000. Its such a good idea, so why isn't it taken up by everyone? The benefit studies have been done, the companies...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-11-10
Antitrust Division Issues Statement on the European Commission’s Decision Regarding the Proposed Transaction Between Oracle and Sun US Department...
From Putting People First
Book: Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media
Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out Kids Living and Learning with New Media (John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and...
From The Noisy Channel
The Noisy Noogler: A Quick FAQ
I’m barely 24 hours into my new life as a Googler, and I’ve already gotten lots of questions!
From Putting People First
CNN
Check out Experientia partner Jan-Christoph Zoels’s superb appearance on CNN’s Christiane Amanpour show yesterday… vividly describing how as an opposition member...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Use of Twitter, Facebook Exploding
From CW: I am a bit surprised that these are seeing very widespread use. Article also covers some of the privacy and security watchouts. ' ... People using Twitter...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Massively Complex Agent Environments
I am reposting this article from over a year ago to remind myself and readers of interesting work done in very large scale agent models. Here from Simulex, which...
From Computational Complexity
If FACEBOOK the new email?
Back in 1993 I had the following conversation with one of my relatives: BILL: Just give me your email address and I'll email it to you. RELATIVE: I don't...
From The Eponymous Pickle