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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
Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference 2009
The Computers, Freedom and Privacy (CFP) Conference recently issued the call for proposals for its 19th conference, slated for June 1-4, 2009 in the Washington,...
From Wild WebMink
Public Procurement and FOSS
I gave an interview to a journalist last week in response to the research that the European Commission's Open Source Observatory publicised in Malaga last week...
From Springenwerk Blog
Links for 2008-11-02 [del.icio.us]
Simple Localization in Rails 2.2 - almost effortless i18n tutorial
From Wild WebMink
links for 2008-10-29
Sun's 2008 Corporate Social Responsibility Report - Open Source Take a look at the open source section of Sun's 2008 Corporate Social Responsibility Report andJerry...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Social Security Numbers Widely Available
According to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), many bulk and online public records contain Social Security Numbers (SSNs), exposing many people to an...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2008-10-27
The "life full" light has been on for the last week, so not much blogging has happened, but there were a few links:All MySQL's children I think Matt has his conclusions...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Google Settles Key Copyright Case
This morning Google announced the settlement of a lawsuit brought against them by the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers over their Book Search...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Federal Trade Commission Chairman Speaks on Internet Privacy
William Kovacic, Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, appeared on C-SPAN's The Communicators recently to discuss the Internet and privacy policy. The audio...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2008-10-18
The Things He Carried Rather over-the-top article about security theatre at US airports.YouTube - Batman vs. The Penguin: The Debate Seems someone's script writer...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Report Sees Potential Shortage Ahead for University IT Workforce
A report by EDUCAUSE, a nonprofit association focused on Information Technology in higher education, says that most respondents to a recent survey anticipate a...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
The Most Important Book You Will Read This Year
Jane Margolis' and Allan Fisher's book from a few years ago called "Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing" was a germinal work about computer science education...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
CSTA Now HAS RSS
CSTA has just added an RSS feed for its news updates on the homepage. If you already have an RSS reader either installed in your browser or through a service...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Leadership Cohort Activities in Gwinnett County, Georgia
I began this school year with a renewed spirit, after having attending the Leadership Cohort in Chicago, IL this summer! It was so empowering to be amongst folks...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Leadership Cohort Activities in Ohio
I am very excited to be a part of the CSTA Leadership Cohort. I was impressed at the workshop this summer with all of the insights into CS education, where we...
From The Noisy Channel
Daniel Tunkelang: Taste and Trust
A promise of social networking platforms is their ability to leverage your social network to provide useful recommendations. We are overwhelmed by the choices available...
From The Noisy Channel
Daniel Tunkelang: Data Scientists at Work
Recently, I had the privilege to be included in Sebastian Gutierrez's book on Data Scientists at Work. In each of the book's 16 chapters, he interviews a different...
From The Noisy Channel
Daniel Tunkelang: My Three Ex’s: A Data Science Approach for Applied Machine Learning
Today, I gave a talk at QCon SF entitled “My Three Ex’s: A Data Science Approach for Applied Machine Learning”. The talk wasn’t about machine learning as such,Brendan...
From The Noisy Channel
Daniel Tunkelang: Dream Big. Execute Incrementally.
In Silicon Valley, everyone loves to talk about disruptive innovation. Indeed, it's easy to dismiss incremental improvements as boring or unimaginative. But moonshot...
From The Noisy Channel