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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 Putting People First
Microsoft demos multi-touch enabled mice concepts
Microsoft is exploring the concept of multi-touch mice, a new research paper reveals. The paper is being presented today as part of the User Interface Software...
From Putting People First
How to visualise energy savings
Kevin Anderson reports in The Guardian on how a new generation of monitors can generate data about your energy use and help you cut your costs and carbon. “These...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Focus Groups Failing for the Movies
Roger Dooley suggests that the recent mention of using brain scans to provide accurate and specific predictions for scary movie content really shows a further failure...
From Computational Complexity
Two Recent Complexity Books omit Mahaney's theorem- ovesight or wisdom?
In a prior post (a while back) I pondered if Mahaney's theorem (SAT \le_m S, S Spare, implies P=NP) should be taught in a basic grad course in complexity. I thought...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cellphones as our Remote Controls
Steve King writes an excellent blog: Small Business Labs on small business and entrepreneurial topics that is useful. Notable is a recent article on the increasing...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
What is more fundamental: Physics or Computer Science?
Computer Science can be taken a natural science: the study of how the universe processes information. If it is a natural science, then does it build on Physics?...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of October 5
October 7 Meeting: The Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board will meet. The focus of the meeting will be on the NIST Information Technology Laboratory...
From My Biased Coin
Job Competitions
Stefan Savage made an insightful comment related to the issue of jobs: I've long felt that its a fallacy that there exists a fine-grained Platonic ideal of "goodness"...
From Wild WebMink
Links for 2009-10-05
The Cybersecurity Myth Cringely on why the US claim to be in the process of hiring 1,000 "cybersecurity experts" is unlikely to impress any real...
From Schneier on Security
Actual DHS Travel Record
If you were curious what the DHS knows about you.
From Return 42;
The Other Side of the Table: Lawrence Paulson
This post in the The other side of the table series is one week late. Sorry for that. As I have mentioned earlier, it is a quite busy time for me at the moment....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Paid Traffic Down
Paid online traffic appears to be down about 26%, A very cursory look at the data looks like it is a significant change beyond normal and seasonal variability....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Soap Opera Moving Online
Dave Knox posts on new experiments by Procter with online soap. Links to another local article on the change. Outlines some of P&G's goals. One of the world's largest...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pirating Books Expands
With the emergence of popular book readers will will we start to see increasing book piracy? In the NYT ' .... The Association of American Publishers estimated...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Singularity
Artificial intelligence and consciousness at the singularity summit. This is still a long ways off-
From The Eponymous Pickle
Counting on Dividends for 119 Years
I worked on a project that helped Procter executives relate and visualize compensation to dividends. It was the first PC based program that execs used directly....
From CERIAS Blog
What About the Other 11 Months?
October is "officially" National Cyber Security Awareness Month. Whoopee! As I write this, only about 27 more days before everyone slips back into their cyber stupor...
From Putting People First
The shift from human-centered to resource-centered design
Eric Wilmot writes on Greener Design on how to design for a post-consumption society. And an excellent article it is. “The current interpretation of human-centered...
From My Biased Coin