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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 Return 42;
Playing with Devver
Testing can be a pain. At least in Ruby on Rails. That is, not only writing tests can be tedious, but also running tests can consume sometimes ridiculous amounts...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Toward author-centric science
Too many research papers in Computer Science are nonsense: they convey no worthy message. Yet, they pass a Turing test of sort: at a glance, they are indistinguishable...
From Schneier on Security
The Exaggerated Fears of Cyber-War
Good article, which basically says that our policies are based more on fear than on reality. On cyber-terrorism: So why is there so much concern about
From Wild WebMink
Sun's Bloggers' License
As a follow-up to my posting on Monday about the new co-ownership license Sun has offered to all the bloggers on blogs.sun.com, I thought it would be good to post...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pressure to Limit Behavioral Targeting
Comments on a recent NY Times article. I see the point, this is a common startup direction. Clearly more balance needs to be had between targeting and privacy concerns...
From My Biased Coin
ESA Plans
I'll be headed to ESA this weekend. My talk is first thing Monday morning, so I'll be there sometime Sunday. If anyone wants to get together for dinner Sunday...
From The Eponymous Pickle
GMail Outage
I experienced the Gmail outage here in NYC yesterday. I agree with several pundits that there was no easy way to tell what was going on. Had to go to a number of...
From Putting People First
The architect of experience
Paula Wallace, president of the Savannah College of Art and Design, interviews Peter Fossick, who is the coordinator of a new program in service design at the college...
From Putting People First
The rise of the super fakes
What happens when a large % of your target market wants your brand cachet but is happy with a decent-enough quality fake? Nokia
From Putting People First
How mobile is connecting people to what matters
Via Dina Mehta, founder and managing director of Mosoci India, I found out about Progress, a highly interesting new website set up by Nokia and Lonely Planet: “The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart E-Commerce Changes
Wal-Mart appears to be expanding and changing their e-commerce operational presence: E-Commerce says: ' ... Wal-Mart is taking a page from Amazon's playbook, partnering...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Assessing Impact in Computing Education
I spend much of my time thinking about reforming computer science education in Los Angeles. My goal is to make computer science courses accessible and engaging...
From Schneier on Security
Hacking Swine Flu
Interesting: So how many bits are in this instance of H1N1? The raw number of bits, by my count, is 26,022; the actual number of coding bits approximately 25,054...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
ACM Comments on Reach for the Top Education Fund
The Association for Computing Machinery recently submitted comments (PDF) on the Race to the Top Fund, an Education Department program set up to address some of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI a Dangerous Dream?
Interview with Noel Sharkey. The robotics expert, formerly a player in artificial intelligence, suggests that AI is a dangerous dream. I don't think it is a dream...
From Return 42;
ICFP 2009 and Functional Programming in the Real World
Today the proceedings of the 14th ACM SIGPLAN international conference on functional programming (ICFP) have been uploaded to the ACM digital library. Next to the...
From Schneier on Security
Matthew Weigman
Fascinating story of a 16-year-old blind phone phreaker. One afternoon, not long after Proulx was swatted, Weigman came home to find his mother talking to what...
From My Biased Coin
ITA, Polaris
At some point, I spent some time at ITA Software, a company I like for many reasons. (First, I like their flight fare-finding and selection interfaces -- which...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog