Communications of the ACM
Refine your search:
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 Schneier on Security
Inferring Friendship from Location Data
Interesting: For nine months, Eagle's team recorded data from the phones of 94 students and staff at MIT. By using blue-tooth technology and phone masts, theyabstract...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Talk Like a Pirate Day
Arrr! I hope everyone had a swashbuckling day this past September 19. As you no doubt knew, September 19 is International Talk Like a Pirate Day - an unofficial...
From Computational Complexity
Why You Shouldn't Not Go to FOCS
You can now register on-line for FOCS which includes the 50th celebration. Early registration deadline is October 1. Hotel rate good until October 9th or whilehttp...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Face of Data
Akin to Chernoff faces, but univariate. You can generate a smiley face in Excel that displays a range of emotions. Fun and perhaps useful if you can stand a smiley...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter Store Back Idea
Ad Age details Procter's idea of 'store back', which they consider essential to improvement of sales competing with private label as we emerge from a recession....
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAS JMP Tool Founder
Nice piece about SAS JMP tool developer John Sall, who I met years ago. Used JMP in the enterprise, but no longer have access. Was quite well done, it introduced...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of September 21
September 21 Presentation: The DC Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery and the New America Foundation host a discussion with Prof. Jonathan Lazar...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of September 21
September 21 Presentation: The DC Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery and the New America Foundation host a discussion with Prof. Jonathan Lazar...
From Apophenia
Seeking: Research Assistant/Intern for Online Safety Literature Review
The Youth Policy Working Group at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society is looking for a research assistant intern to help update the Literature Review...
From Apophenia
Seeking: Technical Research Assistant for Adhoc Tasks at MSR
Microsoft Research New England is seeking an undergraduate research assistant to help out with assorted tasks for 10-20 hours/week to assist Dr. danah boyd, a social...
From Return 42;
Testing Rails Obsevers with Shoulda
It has been a bit quiet around here recently, basically due to the project I am working on at the moment, which is really time consuming. But more about that sooner...
From Schneier on Security
Terrorist Havens
Good essay on "terrorist havens" -- like Afghanistan -- and why they're not as big a worry as some maintain: Rationales for maintaining the counterinsurgency in...
From Putting People First
Two new user experience communities
Louis Rosenfeld alerted me to two new Ning-based community sites that Rosenfeld Media authors recently started: Design for Care compiles methods, results, case...
From Apophenia
accessible speaking events for the fall
This fall is chock full of me blabbing on and on so I wanted to share some events that are publicly accessible. They're intended for different audiences and in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Human Level AI by When?
The World Future Society suggests we will have Human level AI by 2025. The Foresight Institute blog says it depends what the tasks are. Of course if you could...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Product Innovation Site
Dr. Robert Cooper and Dr. Scott Edgett's Product Innovation site, best known for their Stage-Gate idea-to-launch method which we used in the enterprise.
From Putting People First
