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Significant AI breakthroughs come from identifying or creating new sources of data, not inventing new algorithms.

The World Wide Web would serve well as a framework for structuring much of the academic Computer Science curriculum. A study of the theory and practice of the Web’s technologies would traverse many key areas of our discipline.

Computer scientist at UC Irvine who has done virtual machine and compiler work. Cool and advanced, but written extremely clearly; you'll get smarter by reading this blog.

Paul Graham's innovative initial description of Bayesian spam filtering.

Imagine a library containing 25 billion documents, but with no centralized organization and no librarians. In addition, anyone may add a document at any time without telling anyone. You may feel sure that one of the documents contained in the collection has a piece of information that is vitally important to you. You'd like to find it in a matter of seconds. How would you go about doing it?