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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 Wild WebMink
Building a Scorecard for Open Source
In my previous posts, I've drawn an analogy between open source software and organic food, hinting that in both cases the rush to create a working brand lost some...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter Plans Beauty Magazine
P&G to Launch Custom Beauty Magazine Rouge in U.S.: Package Goods Giant Plans to Build Database by Relying on Mommy Bloggers to Spread the Word. Nice to see bloggers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Starbucks M-Commerce for IPhone
A case study of the use of M-Commerce by Starbucks in Storefrontbacktalk. I agree with their comments, I have tried a half dozen M-commerce applications, but have...
From Computational Complexity
Publicity for P versus NP
On the New York Times website, John Markoff writes an article Prizes Aside, the P-NP Puzzler has Consequences motivated by my CACM article on The Status of the....
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
ACM Washington Update, Vol. 13.8 (October 8, 2009)
CONTENTS [1] Newsletter Highlights [2] ACM Argues for Computer Science Education in Kansas [3] FCC Chairman Plans to Create Net Neutrality Rules [4] House Committee...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fujitsu Rugged RFID
Fujitsu has announced that it has developed a more rugged RFID chip. Based on some of my own recent discussions there are a number of useful applications, for example...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P vs NP Reviewed by Times
I mentioned this article some time ago, it was orginally in the Communications of the ACM, about one of the most difficult yet practical mathematical problems of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
See Search Results as PDF
In what seems like a small thing, Google now lets you get a quick view of search results, Gmail and Google docs as a PDF. As a result you can preserve more formatting...
From Schneier on Security
Detecting Forged Signatures Using Pen Pressure and Angle
Interesting: Songhua Xu presented an interesting idea for measuring pen angle and pressure to present beautiful flower-like visual versions of a handwritten signature...
From Wild WebMink
Links for 2009-10-08
Outsourcing Is High Tech's Subprime-Mortgage Fiasco I sat this week listening to the new President of the BCS responding to several unemployedOutsourcing...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
A Report from the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
The ninth Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing took place in Tucson, Arizona from September 30-October 3.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter Joins Inno360
In Consumer Goods Technology: P&G has joined Inno360 to promote worldwide innovation.' ... to unite global pioneers to co-develop the next-generation open innovation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dow to Start Selling Solar Shingles
Have followed solar power ideas since the late 70s .... I remember this idea being posed back then. Now it has finally come to fruition. Launching in 2010. About...
From Schneier on Security
Hotel Safe Scam
This is interesting: Since then, his scams have tended to take place in luxury hotels around the world. Typically, he would arrive at a hotel, claim to be a guest...
From Schneier on Security
Detecting People Who Want to Do Harm
I'm dubious: At a demonstration of the technology this week, project manager Robert P. Burns said the idea is to track a set of involuntary physiological reactions...
From Computational Complexity
The last Universal Mathematician was ???
The book Prime Obsessions has the following on Page 159: You will see it written that Hadamard was the last of the universal mathematicians--- the last, that...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Sadker Awards for Teachers and Students
The Myra Sadker Foundation has established teacher and student awards to support the creation of teaching and learning materials that advance educational equity...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Marketing Maneuvers
In Forbes: Cheap Entrepreneurial marketing maneuvers for small business, including Twitter use.
From Schneier on Security