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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
Friday Squid Blogging: Draw-a-Squid Contest
Draw a squid, win Jeff Vandermeer`s Ambergris novels.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Members Build Membership in CSTA
Have you ever wondered about the other members of CSTA? Questions like "Where are the other members?" or "Who are the other members?" One of the best ways to grow...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Spot Shopper Data Mining
This blog emerged from connections nurtured at our innovation centers. One of the topics we covered for years was how to talk to the shopper as they roamed thesmart...
From Computational Complexity
Notes on Dagstuhl
A few notes on Dagshul which Lance and I were at last week. I could tell you about the talks, but the website does a better job: here I value goingLinear...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Apps Economy
BusinessWeek short video and article: Inside the App Economy. Great introduction to the whole notion of both mobile and social networking applications. More about...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Statistical Learning Book
Mike Cristiani of MIG points out that the book: The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining Inference and Prediction, by Hastie, Tibshirani and Friedman Second...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Converge Magazine
An education oriented site and mag whose tagline is: Education is Destiny.
From The Eponymous Pickle
ESPN Partners with WIMI
WIMI, The Wharton Interactive Marketing Initiative reports that they have established a partnership with ESPN. Press release and details here.
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
ISMAR09: Human Factors and User Interfaces
There were more than a few good papers presented at ISMAR this year on human factors and user interfaces. Here's just a taste of them. See the conference schedule...
From The Eponymous Pickle
You Can't Charge for it
Content is no longer king, or at least you can't often charge for it. So is community king now? So says Judy Shapiro in AdAge. That has been true for quite some...
From Schneier on Security
"Evil Maid" Attacks on Encrypted Hard Drives
Earlier this month, Joanna Rutkowska implemented the "evil maid" attack against TrueCrypt. The same kind of attack should work against any whole-disk encryption...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Interactive Table for Environment Center
John Curran, long-time correspondent, has sent along pictures of some excellent work that his company MCosm did at the Dupont Environmental Education Center, which...
From Computational Complexity
Need a Roomate for a Conference?
(Guest Post by Dave Doty pointing to a blog by ***SORELLE*** which points to a roomate finding service for conferences.) Sorelle has announced a new roommate...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
ISMAR09: Workshop on Handheld Augmented Reality Games
This was a great workshop given by Blair MacIntyre from Georgia Tech on mobile augmented reality games. I got a lot out of it, from being reminded of some solid...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More of Web Searchable
In an ongoing progression, more of the web has become searchable. Google has announced that Twitter updates will soon be added to search results. How will theya...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Congress Declares Computer Science Week!
Computer science education reform is going to come in fits and starts working on issues from the top down (national media, federal policy, etc.) and the bottomComputer...
From Schneier on Security
James Bamford on the NSA
James Bamford -- author of The Shadow Factory: The NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America writes about the NSA's new data center in Utah as he reviews another...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ontologies Explained
Ontology is one of those words that you do not hear in common parlance. As a result it often gets a blank stare if you dare to use it in management meetings. Ihas...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Open Access is the Short-Sighted Fight
My colleague Stevan Harnad thinks it is silly to boycott for-profit journals. My ex-colleague Stephen Downes admits to being a boycotter, but he claims not to be...
From Wild WebMink