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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
A Critical Essay on the TSA
A critical essay on the TSA from a former assistant police chief: This is where I find myself now obsessing over TSA policy, or its apparent lack. Every one of...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-10-29
Many open-sourcers back an Oracle takeover of MySQL Indeed, my experience of late is that there are very few voices without a vested interest who...
From My Biased Coin
Ranking Networking Conferences
I'm curious if various readers out there would be willing to offer their ranking of networking conferences. The issue has come up in some conversations recently...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
My Voice
I look forward to it every couple of months. I've been receiving the CSTA Voice since I became a member back in 2005. For years, being a member of CSTA meant getting...
From Schneier on Security
Best Buy Sells Surveillance Tracker
Only $99.99: Keep tabs on your child at all times with this small but sophisticated device that combines GPS and cellular technology to provide you with real-time...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter and Social Media
A good case study about P&G using Facebook to market Crest Whitestrips. '... the contest on Facebook asks participants to submit stories about connections they...
From Computational Complexity
FOCS Last Day
Last (but surely not least) day at FOCS 09!Jan Vondrak talked about some nice results that unify previous query complexity approaches in proving lower bounds for...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The Secret Behind Radical Innovation
Our global knowledge grows in slow, incremental steps. Darwin and Einstein mostly reinterpreted existing ideas. However, practical implementations sometimes take...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Irony Universal in Communication
A piece in Language Log talks about the universality of irony in communication. Also links to a number of other discussions previously held on the topic. One way...
From Schneier on Security
Psychology and Security Resource Page
Ross Anderson has put together a great resource page on security and psychology: At a deeper level, the psychology of security touches on fundamental scientific...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-10-28
US Department of Defence Posts New Guidance on Open Source Software This has been a long time cooking, but finally allows the US Defence Department...
From Apophenia
Choosing the Right Grad School
Lately, I've been getting all sorts of emails from folks applying to grad school who are seeking advice. I noticed that I was starting to say the same thing over...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What is Social Search? Zakta Answers
Recently I took a first look at Zakta, a novel form of search engine that includes the ability to work socially with your searches, edit them, manipulate and use...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shneiderman on Future of Information Discovery
Here are Ben Shneiderman's slides from his keynote at the 2009 HCIR conference, posted by Daniel Tunkelang, worth a look.-
From The Eponymous Pickle
Compete
A colleague pointed me to compete.com from TNS, which acquired them last year. With a trial version of the package you can compare traffic at major web sites. Also...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Why Words Matter: Technology is not the same as Computing
Robb Cutler, CSTA Past President
From The Eponymous Pickle
Synchronized Blinking with Video
In Lucid Thoughts Steve Genco looks at the process of blinking based on some recent research which ' ... presents some really intriguing findings about when and...
From Putting People First
A reflection on energy efficiency and behaviour
Irene Cassarino, an Experientia collaborator, reports on the First European Conference on Energy Efficiency and Behaviour, which took place in Maastricht last week...
From The Eponymous Pickle