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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
Reading Barcodes
Short Wired article on reading barcodes without a device, in other words with just your eyes. Cute parlor trick, but of course barcodes usually contain the code...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-11-21
EU delays Sun/Oracle decision Until the end of January instead of the middle. At this point it's all just more blows to a bruised body. (tags...
From The Noisy Channel
Can We Learn From Anti-Social Users?
One of the interesting challenges we face as both developers and consumers of search technology is that social signals are a double-edged sword. On one hand, social...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
National Computer Science Education Week
Congress has resolved that the week of December 7 will be designated as “National Computer Science Education Week.”
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intel Says Brain Will Control Computers
Intel: Chips in brains will control computers by 2020Brain waves will replace keyboard and mouse, dial phones and change TV channels ...'-
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: New Squid Discovered
An expedition to study seamounts in the Indian Ocean has discovered some new species, including some squid.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sparklines in Excel
Sparklines (above) are a simple means of including quantitative visuals in lines of text, conceived of by Edward Tufte. Three has been recently much ado about Microsoft...
From CERIAS Blog
Firefox Vulnerabilities: Souvenirs of Windows 95
I've been waiting for an announcement of vulnerabilities in Firefox due to popular extensions. I've compared it to Windows 95 before. Yet students often opine...
From The Eponymous Pickle
LED Tattoos
In Wired Gadget Labs: Illustrated Man. We examined the use of LEDs on clothing for advertising, which can be readily done, but this takes it to the next level...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Process Model for Data Mining
This CRISP-DM model was looked at within the enterprise. Re-examined. It attempts to be very detailed and universal. Worth a look though it does not seem to have...
From Schneier on Security
Interview with Me
Yet another interview with me. This one is audio, and was conducted in Rotterdam in October.
From My Biased Coin
In Reverse
The Crimson is reporting that the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences will plan to decrease the size of the faculty* in response to budget woes. The key point...
From Putting People First
Interaction design for specialised tasks
Mikkel Michelsen discusses the core differences between specialised use contexts and the mainstream use of a mass consumer product, and tries to answer the questions...
From Putting People First
Will consumers plug into home energy displays?
Dozens of home energy monitors are coming to market, but nobody knows whether only hybrid Prius owners will use them. Martin LaMonica reports on CNet News. “The...
From Computational Complexity
Citing Papers
A student asked me which version of a research paper to cite, a journal (the last reviewed version) or a conference (the first reviewed version) of a paper. I generally...
From Putting People First
User-driven innovation in Denmark
Some English language websites, blogs, articles and publications updating on what Denmark is doing on user-driven innovation: Is Denmark a lead user of user driven...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-11-20
Apple's Mistake Paul Graham gets it spot on again. Apple's attitude is Google's biggest asset in the battle for the mobile market. (tags: ...
From Schneier on Security
Denial-of-Service Attack Against CALEA
Interesting: The researchers say they've found a vulnerability in U.S. law enforcement wiretaps, if only theoretical, that would allow a surveillance target to...
From Putting People First