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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 My Biased Coin
ESA Talk and Paper
Some people have asked me to post my survey/talk at ESA on Open Problems in Cuckoo Hashing. Now that the talk is over, here they are! Here's the paper, and here's...
From Schneier on Security
David Kilcullen on Security and Insurgency
Very interesting hour-long interview. Australian-born David Kilcullen was the senior advisor to US General David Petraeus during his time in Iraq, advising on...
From My Biased Coin
Controversy at ESA
As you might imagine, there's actually little controversy at ESA. But as I mentioned to some colleagues during the breaks, the only (consistent) way to get comments...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Bad Graphs
Stephen Few on bad graphs in Information Management Magazine. I see it is a bit dated now, but still worth reviewing. Bad visualizations are very common. I have...
From The Eponymous Pickle
ThisweKnow
I had taken a look at the government database data.gov when it came out earlier this year. Now there is a semantic database use case for this data called Thisweknow...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Role of Analysis in Invention
The role of statistical analysis in invention, by Felix Grant. Analysis as the mother of invention. Thoughtful piece.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gordon Bell's Mylifebits
BW reviews the status of the work by Gordon Bell with MyLifebits. Inspired in part by Vennevar Bush's unimplemented Memex idea. We saw MyLifebits presented in its...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Venture Capital Industry
Whats Really Happening to the Venture Capital Industry?. ' ... It is indeed quite likely that the venture industry is in the process of a very substantial reduction...
From Return 42;
The other side of the table: Bryan Cantrill
It is already time for next one. I actually can't believe how fast the time was passing by, which is probably caused by the amount of work I had to do in the past...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-09-04
EU fears Oracle will kill MySQL, but is that even possible? So many speculaitive stories out there, all full of half-correct opinions...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Revealing Slant in Mathematica
Jilyan Landon of Mathematica points me to a post in the Wolfram Blog. There something as mundane as an error message gives a hint to how well integrated Mathematica...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Advising Government on a New Key Piece of Legislation
In early August, the U.S. Department of Education released the proposed structure of the $4.5 billion Race to the Top Fund. In short, this fund will distribute...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Lecture on Human-Computer Interaction and Public Policy
Event Date: September 21, 2009 The Washington DC Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery, with support from the New America Foundation, will hold a...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Reaching Out and OutreachAmbassador: Mary Anne Egan, United States
There are several projects keeping me busy this year. First, the Student IMPACT alternative programming contest continues (www.cs.siena.edu/~maegan/impact). The...
From The Eponymous Pickle