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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 The Computing Community Consortium Blog
A Report from the Visions and Grand Challenges Conferences
Your faithful correspondent recently attended the paired ACM-BCS Visions of Computer Science 2010 and UKCRC Grand Challenges conferences at Edinburgh University...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hyper Realism
Intriguing Wired report on a new faster graphics methodology that directly utilizes voxels, the 3D equivalent of pixels. Look forward to the possibilities for their...
From Putting People First
April 2010 issue of Boxes and Arrows
The April issue of Boxes and Arrows is recommended reading: Designing for social interaction – strong, weak and temporary ties by Paul Adams, senior UX researcher...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-04-22
WhiteHouse.gov Releases Open Source Code Delighted to see Obama's White House releasing their work as open source – way to go. (tags: Obama OpenSource FOSS USA...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
US Imagine Cup Finals This Weekend
Today I have a presentation to give around mid-day and then I go home to pack for a trip to Washington DC for the US finals of the Imagine Cup. Ironically last...
From Schneier on Security
NIST on Protecting Personally Identifiable Information
Just published: Special Publication (SP) 800-122, "Guide to Protecting the Confidentiality of Personally Identifiable Information (PII)." It's 60 pages long; I...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visa to Buy Cybersource
In StorefrontBacktalk: Visa buys more than a security company for 2 billion. Comments on its being more than just a security company play. See also Cybersource's...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Total Engagement via Games
Although published late last year, this book was recently brought to my attention: Total Engagement: Using Games and Virtual Worlds to Change the Way People Work...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Do Your Knowledge Workers Have a Bitsmith?
In HBR: The concept of a bitsmith for knowledge workers. An area of particular interest to me of late: " ... Along with my colleagues Jeff Hesse and Terry Holliday...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ensuring Clean, Consistent Data
A TDWI / SAS Paper on ensuring clean, consistent data. I have just been involved in a project where this could have saved us much money and time. Read it.
From Schneier on Security
Security Fog
An odd burglary prevention tool: If a burglar breaks in, the system floods the business with a dense fog similar to what's used in theaters and nightclubs. An...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Dealing with Competance Issues
Engaging every student in computer science is a goal we all share. We label it diversity and know it is critical to a balanced industry and a competitive country...
From Computational Complexity
Is there a pangramic palindrome?
Pangrams are sentences that contain every letter of the alphabet. The classic is The quick brown fox jumped over a lazy dog. There are more here. Palindromes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Seeking the Brain's True Capacity
A short article in New Scientist. In computing we have precise measures of how much storage exists. In the brain, neither the method of storage nor how much room...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-04-21
Tech companies fear implications of trade pact It's good to see press coverage starting to appear about ACTA – hopefully the release of the current draft today...
From Schneier on Security
Personal Code Ink
Remember SmartWater: liquid imbued with a uniquely identifiable DNA-style code? Well, Mont Blanc is selling a pen with uniquely identifiable ink.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
New Silverlight 4 Training Kit Available
Microsoft has just released a new free Silverlight 4 Training Kit that walks you through building business applications with Silverlight 4. You can also download...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Tell me What I Should be Researching!
I want to run a short crowdsourcing experiment: can the web give me better research directions? Or maybe good research directions for students, or readers of this...
From Putting People First