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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 Daniel Lemire's Blog
More database compression means more speed? Right?
Current practical database compression techniques stress speed over compression: Vectorwise is using Super-scalar RAM-CPU cache compression which includes a carefully...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Google Knows About You
This is worthwhile for just general caution if you are into Google applications. ' ... Google may know more about you than your mother does. Got a problem with...
From Computational Complexity
Jobs
As many university's still feel the effect of the financial crises, many have limited or no positions to hire new tenure-track faculty so I expect the academicUniversity...
From Wild WebMink
? Starting November With Some Free Music
I just posted this week's free music downloads list over on my personal blog.
From My Biased Coin
Surveys
This post is about surveys. It's motivated by one of my tasks last night, as I has to spend some time going over the final proofs for the survey Hash-Based Techniques...
From Schneier on Security
Beyond Security Theater
[I was asked to write this essay for the New Internationalist (n. 427, November 2009, pp. 10–13). It's nothing I haven't said before, but I'm pleased with howessay...
From The Noisy Channel
Week 1 at Google: Information Overload!
As you might imagine, it’s quite a switch to go from criticizing Google from the outside to being on the inside. Jeff Jarvis, who was gracious enough not to make...
From Putting People First
Nokia has designs on India
Nokia’s senior design specialists are touring India to discover how Indians use cellphones. Leslie D’Monte reports for New Delhi’s Business Standard. Jhanvi Madan...
From Putting People First
The social dimension of environmental sustainability
Experientia collaborator Irene Cassarino went yesterday to the international “The social dimension of environmental sustainability
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deep Data Dives
In the CACM, Discovering natural laws using massive amounts of data. Also called knowledge discovery, here with some new directions: ' ... Mining scientific...
From Putting People First
Singapore on design possibilities for tomorrow
The Singapore Design Festival, running November 20-30, now themed “Design 2050: Possibilities for Tomorrow,” , is also continuing its quest to improve people’s...
From Schneier on Security
FBI/CIA/NSA Information Sharing Before 9/11
It's conventional wisdom that the legal "wall" between intelligence and law enforcement was one of the reasons we failed to prevent 9/11. The 9/11 Comission evaluated...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
What is Computational Thinking
In the March 2006 issue of the Communications of the ACM, Jeannette Wing generated a significant response with her article on Computational Thinking. One of the...
From Return 42;
JSpec
Testing everything is a good thing - or call it TATFT if you have to. While most programming languages already feature great testing frameworks, the ones available...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retail Commission on Shopper Marketing
Am a bit late to this, but of interest:' ... As part of its ongoing Shopper Merchandising and Marketing leadership strategy, Coca-Cola North America (CCNA) is sponsoring...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wolfram Details Mathematica R&D
More from the 2009 International Mathematica User Conference: ' ... In this second video clip, Stephen gives a detailed description of what’s coming in the R&D...
From Computational Complexity
Breaking Walls
Many of you readers don't remember a time when there were two Germanys or when we didn't think IP = PSPACE. Two walls collapsed in November of 1989 that changed...
From Putting People First
Matt Webb presentation at UX Week 2009 (video)
Matt Webb of Berg was one of the speakers at UX Week 2009, a conference in San Francisco organised by Adapative Path. In his presentation “Design Is In Your Hands...
From Putting People First
Designing for a sustainable world
To celebrate World Usability Day 2009, System Concepts has put together a video podcast exploring how different stakeholders can enhance the user experience of...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog