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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 Computational Complexity
DIMACS at 20
Last Friday DIMACS celebrated its 20th anniversary. Muthu summarizes the event. DIMACS has served the theoretical computer science community well over these two...
From My Biased Coin
4-Year Masters
Harvard, like many other places, has an option by which students (with "Advanced Standing" from AP classes) can obtain a Master's (in some programs) as well as...
From Apophenia
Spectacle at Web2.0 Expo... From my Perspective
Last week, I gave a talk at Web2.0 Expo. From my perspective, I did a dreadful job at delivering my message. Yet, the context around my talk sparked a broad conversation...
From Schneier on Security
Norbt
Norbt (no robot) is a low-security web application to encrypt web pages. You can create and encrypt a webpage. The key is an answer to a question; anyone who...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-11-24
Capitalism's Fundamental Flaw From Forbes, no less: "In 2009, 30 million people sit unemployed in America. Yet, the speculators have managed to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IKEA and Facebook
IKEA uses facebook tagging to promote creative new store opening.-
From Schneier on Security
Decertifying "Terrorist" Pilots
This article reads like something written by the company's PR team. When it comes to sleuthing these days, knowing your way within a database is as valued a skill...
From The Eponymous Pickle
L'Oreal Case Study on Mobility
I see that Consumer Goods Technology will be presenting a webinar tomorrow: The Booming Value of Mobility - In the Enterprise and Beyond. L'Oreal will be among...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Printing all the Science News that Fits
I have been a fan of NYT science writing for years. Enjoyed it and thought it was well written and mostly objective. Yet now, on particularly important topic, they...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart as a Cat?
Just a while back I linked to a press release about how IBM had claimed to have created a brain simulation that had as many neurons and synapses as a cat. WithHere...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smartbooks vs Notebooks
Why carry yet another unitasking device? What ultimately is the difference? Good piece on this. I would personally like it all on a smartphone device, though the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Evolution of Pepsi vs Coke Logos
Brought to my attention recently the relative evolution of Pepsi vs Coke Logos. It was later pointed out to be that this is somewhat selectively inaccurate, yet...
From Computational Complexity
An Undervalued Math Problem
As most of you know there are 7 problems worth $1,000,000 (see here). It may be just 6 since Poincare's conjecture has probably been solved. Why are these problems...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Lessons Learned for Science Outreach
I went to my old high school last week to do some outreach for Let's Talk Science. The teacher we're partnered with requested a grade ten physics activity on optics...
From Schneier on Security
Al Qaeda Secret Code Broken
I would sure like to know more about this: Top code-breakers at the Government Communications Headquarters in the United Kingdom have succeeded in breaking the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lining Up
A just discovered blog that covers aspects of queueing theory, both the idealized mathematical aspects and the psychological issues to discover how people relate...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented Reality, Head-To-Head
In the blog Augmented Planet a head-to-head comparison of a number of augmented reality browsers for the purpose of finding a restaurant and finding sites in London...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Things that Mobile Phones will Obsolete
In Recombu: Ten Things that Mobile Phones Will Make Obsolete. I am sure we can expect others. The laptop? -
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovation Science Parks
Good piece in BusinessWeek on the building of innovation parks in cities. Contrary to the idea of having virtual companies powered by interconnectivity, which have...
From The Eponymous Pickle