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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 U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of October 12
October 13 Meeting: The Election Assistance Commission is holding a roundtable discussion on research on assistive voting technologies. 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Kellogg...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Public Domain E-Reads
There are now over 18,000 public domain (free) reads for the Kindle online. In addition Sony eBook readers can access Google's massive collection of scanned public...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Drawing Fewer Clicks
Short NYT piece on the Comscore study/ May mean we have to start looking at online very differently:'... A recent study, by the research firm comScore, has found...
From Schneier on Security
Wi-fi Blocking Paint
I wrote about this in 2004. This is an improved product: While paints blocking lower frequencies have been available for some time, Mr Ohkoshi's technology is...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
The Benefits of Using Paired Programming
Have you tried pair programming yet in your classroom? I started using it in my classroom five years ago and will never go back to the one computer per student...
From Computational Complexity
The Molly Solution
This week Bill and I are both at the Dagstuhl Workshop on Algebraic Methods in Computation Complexity. I'll try to cover some of the talks and discussions on the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Chart Understanding Versus Complexity
Continuing the topic of chart simplicity and understanding, Junk Charts looks at four charts of economic data and how they can be compared for impact and understanding...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-10-12
What Caused the Sidekick Fail? "Microsoft was upgrading their SAN (Storage Area Network aka the thing that stores all your data)...
From Putting People First
Bringing internet video services to the living room TV set
More details are emerging about Project Canvas, the ambitious joint venture by the BBC, ITV, Five and BT to bring internet video services such as the iPlayer from...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Examples of Visualization
A number of interesting visualizations of data. The original piece is 50 great examples of data visualization. There is no doubt that these are colorful, finely...
From Putting People First
Our ever evolving online communication patterns
Both the Wall Street Journal and Techcrunch devote extensive space today to our ever evolving online communication patterns. The Wall Street Journal looks at how...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neuromarketing Ethics
In Forbes an interesting piece on bioethics and neuroscience topics: Is My Mind Mine?. The author Paul Root Wolpe, .... is editor of the American Journal of Bioethics...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Make it About the Customer
In the NYT Magazine: Faster Slow Food, by Mark Bittman. I read his blog. As a foodie and cook myself and a rampant technologist, this brings my two great obsessions...
From Putting People First
Reviewing the
Dan Hill (ARUP) wrote a long review of the ‘Toward the Sentient City’ exhibition curated by Mark Shepard and organised by the Architectural League of New York. “This...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-10-11
Your Company Could Win $10 Million! Big, bold, brash, brazen, this is the red future awaiting Sun. (tags: Oracle...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Webinars for Professional Development
I have given webinars this fall using WebEx (http://try.webex.com) and Elluminate (http://www.elluminate.com/). I used WebEx during a webinar for Pearson on Alice...
From Putting People First
On using design to influence behaviour
Dan Lockton of Brunel University (UK), who runs a blog called Design with Intent, which focuses on strategic design that
From The Eponymous Pickle