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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 Computing Community Consortium Blog
Metagenomics and the Computing Challenges of Microbial Communities
Why should you care about microbial communities? Except for viruses, they are the most abundant life on Earth and have an overwhelming effect on our environment...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Near Real-Time Flu Tracking at CDC
I was involved with a project that sought to use retail data to do something similar. With the potential to use it for epidemics or bioterror detection and tracking...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Limits of Social Media Marketing
A cautious piece about social media marketing. Its more than just starting up a free presence and expecting people to engage.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Entrpreneurial Resources
Useful: In Inc. Top Entrepreneurial bloggers and in Mashable: useful tools for Entrepreneurs.
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Sets up Indian Analytics Center
In my early days in the enterprise we worked directly with IBM to use their optimization software and resources to solve tough analytics problems. Over the years...
From Computational Complexity
Button Button
Here is the offer: If you press the button you will receive $200,000. The caveat: Someone you don't know will die. I was born during run of the original Twilight...
From My Biased Coin
FOCS/STOC and Asymmetry
I had a funny conversation with Madhu Sudan yesterday, with him relaying an idea he said he heard from Umesh Vazirani (and perhaps the trail goes on further from...
From Schneier on Security
The Doghouse: ADE 651
A divining rod to find explosives in Iraq: ATSC’s promotional material claims that its device can find guns, ammunition, drugs, truffles, human bodies and even...
From My Biased Coin
Harvard Financial Aid
This post will talk about Harvard's financial aid program, and why it's a perfectly good thing to give money to Harvard, despite what you might read in the New.I...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Computer Science in Practice
Seen in the stairwell of the Purdue Student Health Center... Robb Cutler CSTA Past President
From The Eponymous Pickle
Internet Choice Perception
From O'Reilly: ' ... Individual perception of increased choice can occur while the overall choice pool is getting smallerThis gem from Whimsley makes the point...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reading and Augmented Reality
An upcoming issue of Esquire plans to include a number of readable Q codes. So Engadget suggests that this is augmenting reality. It is augmenting reading, and...
From Putting People First
Reinventing British manners the Post-It way
Wired UK asked Bill Moggridge and his IDEO team to tackle the urban rage problem that is rendering the UK cityscapes ever more aggressive. “Design thinking defines...
From Putting People First
Social isolation and new technology
The Pew Internet Personal Networks and Community survey finds that Americans are not as isolated as has been previously reported. People
From Putting People First
Strength in science collaboration
Rory Cellan-Jones of BBC News reports on how Google Wave is proving its worth in the scientific community, as one of the new collaboration tools which scientists...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Grad School Time Management
Grad school's different from pretty much all school before it.In high school, everything was very structured, with the same classes happening every day. You always...
From Computational Complexity
Innovation
The new Innovations in Computer Science conference announced their accepted papers earlier this week including my paper with Rahul Santhanam "Bounding Rationality...
From Schneier on Security