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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 Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Caught by Japanese Fisherman
It's big: 13 feet long. The fisherman was stunned to discover the giant squid trapped in his net, having been caught at a depth of around 70m, about two-thirds...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Sir John Daniel on Open and Distance Education
Sir John Daniel, world authority on open, distance and online learning, came to Carleton for a special briefing on the future of online learning, covering topics...
From Schneier on Security
PHOTOANGLO: NSA Exploit of the Day
Today's item from the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) group implant catalog: PHOTOANGLO (TS//SI//REL TO USA,FVEY) PHOTOANGLO is a joint NSA/GCHQ project...
From Schneier on Security
Applied Cryptography Available Online
I'm sure this is a pirated copy. Looking at it, it's amazing how long ago twenty years was.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Participate in an IdeasLab on Undergraduate Education
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has released a Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) on “Preparing Applications to Participate in Phase I Ideas Labs on Undergraduate...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Complexity Science Examined
So what is complexity science and how can it be useful? From the Santa Fe Institute. A long time partner of ours in this space, that helped us navigate its usefulness...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Case for Business Intelligence and Big Data
From TDWI: I like looking at this as a business case. " ... What do companies do when they need the power of analytics to be increased with decision support...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Increasing Smartphone Mobile Commerce in China
Related to my recent post on NantMobile. Adage Global talks about the Chinese the move forward. Yes, I am seeing it." ... Mobile Advertising Lags China's Smartphone...
From Schneier on Security
Income Inequality as a Security Issue
This is an interesting way to characterizing income inequality as a security issue: …growing inequality menaces vigorous societies. It is a proxy for how effectively...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blueprint for Building a Quantum Computer
In CACM: More on this interesting topic. " ... In this article, we review the progress that has been made in developing architectures for full-scale quantum computers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Security on the Internet of Things
In the Cisco Blog: (Which I have found to be very informative). Remember the hacked refrigerator." ... The SANS Institute just completed a survey on the security...
From Schneier on Security
NIGHTWATCH: NSA Exploit of the Day
Today's item from the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) group implant catalog: NIGHTWATCH (TS//SI//REL TO USA,FVEY) NIGHTWATCH is a portable computer with...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Adds Sources
Google adds sources to search results, via its Knowledge Graph. A suggestion in the piece suggests that a better solution would be a reliability score based on...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Accelerate Disruptive Innovation
Innovating faster. And focusing your innovation to value. Part of that task is to be able to evaluate innovations in context, as quickly and accurately as possible...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Glass for Firefighters
Several years ago I worked on a project meant to focus key data about operations to firefighters. A kind of augmented reality for a highly dynamic task. ...
From Computational Complexity
What will we wrought?
When I went to college in the early 80's, students protested against college endowments invested in companies that had business in apartheid South Africa. My mother...
From Schneier on Security
Consumer Manipulation
Tim Hartford talks about consumer manipulation: Consider, first, confusion by design: Las Vegas casinos are mazes, carefully crafted to draw players to the slot...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Role of Branding in the Product Life Cycle
Examining the curious role of brand in the product life cycle By James Richardson, Ph.D. on January 22nd, 2014 A new report debunks the notion that brand defines...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Current Trends in Visualization
In Computing Now: A snapshot of current trends in visualization. " ... For this issue of Computing Now, we gathered a set of articles that exemplifies current...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog