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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 Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Move the Cheese
Report on the recent Coding, Complexity, and Sparsity Workshop Martin Strauss and Anna Gilbert and Atri Rudra are the organizers of the just-held Coding, Complexity...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Socks Gather Data
Hackaday is an interesting site to follow. New uses of information technology hardware and software. Which naturally cobble together many well known techniques...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IT in Times of Uncertainty
In the Future of the CIO Series: Some very good thoughts here. I particular: Simplicity. Not to say that I follow that recommendation well. As a follower of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ants and Networking
What ants know. And what complex networks of things can be made to 'know'. Known as Agent Based Models. We studies this a decade ago in the enterprise. Though...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Look at Flat Design
A detailed look. With a number of recent examples, such as Microsoft. Starting to see it everywhere. " ... As the name indicates, flat design is defined by flatness...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blog: Rickshaw Cart Woodblock Print
With a squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Female Friendly Narrative Modding in Games
Why is it that there are still so few video games stories with awesome female protagonists that don't play into the usual gender stereotypes? What's a gamer toZelda...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
The Executive Branch Works On Implementing the Cybersecurity Executive Order
Since the President issued an Executive Order on cybersecurity information sharing back in February, several groups have worked on implementing parts of that order...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Privacy and the Internet: Is Facebook evil?
For several of my classes, I open Facebook groups so that my students can exchange online. In some instances, it has worked great. Facebook tends to do a better...
From Schneier on Security
Lavabit E-Mail Service Shut Down
Lavabit, the more-secure e-mail service that Edward Snowden -- among others -- used, has abruptly shut down. From the message on their homepage: I have been forced...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bit vs Atoms in the Supply Chain
On Bits vs atoms: Nothing new here, our enterprise did this for years, and is one of the supporters of this effort, the post below does give a good overview of...
From Computational Complexity
Don't Have an End Game
As a young professor, I wrote a grant proposal and took it to a senior theory professor for comments. He told me to take out the line "The ultimate goal of computational...
From Schneier on Security
Latest Movie-Plot Threat: Explosive-Dipped Clothing
It's being reported, although there's no indication of where this rumor is coming from or what it's based on. ...the new tactic allows terrorists to dip ordinary...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Prezi: Presentation and Storytelling Tool
I used the Prezi presentation and storytelling tool for a project some years ago. Just revisited it. An introductory video. With many useful examples. It now...
From The Eponymous Pickle
R Resources
Useful R Resources. Books, online, lists, videos, examples. Will add this to my list. I find R similar to Mathematica and APL (from long ago). First language...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gamification White Paper
I had cause to download Bunchball's whitepaper on gamification (registration required). Logically done, as a non technical review of the underlying idea of using...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cloud, Data, Analytics and Process for SMB
Brought to my attention, In The Financial Express, from Jyothi Satyanathan, director Mid-market & Inside Sales, IBM India/South Asia. I much agree with his opening...
From Schneier on Security
Twitter's Two-Factor Authentication System
Twitter just rolled out a pretty nice two-factor authentication system using your smart phone as the second factor: The new two-factor system works like this....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Security Risks and BYOD
Cursory look at the implications for security of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) implementations. We were early experimenters with the BYOD concept, and security...
From The Eponymous Pickle