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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
Ricin as a Terrorist Tool
This paper (full paper behind paywall) -- from Environment International (2009) -- does a good job of separating fact from fiction: Abstract: In recent yearsThis...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mitigating Risk in the Supply Chain
In Industry Week:" ... Supply chain managers adopt new strategies to mitigate risks Research has shown that major interruptions in the supply chain can sap a company's...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tesco Supply Chain Big Data
From Tableau Software: Major global retailer on the use of visualization: " ... Tesco uses Teradata to warehouse their supply and inventory data. They've got...
From Schneier on Security
Trading Privacy for Convenience
Ray Wang makes an important point about trust and our data: This is the paradox. The companies contending to win our trust to manage our digital identities all...
From Computational Complexity
The Internship
Last weekend I took my teenage daughters to see The Internship, the Vince Vaughn-Owen Wilson vehicle where they play two forty-year old interns at Google. It basically...
From Schneier on Security
More on Feudal Security
Facebook regularly abuses the privacy of its users. Google has stopped supporting its popular RSS feeder. Apple prohibits all iPhone apps that are political orGame...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
FCC Emergency Access Advisory Committee Meeting on June 14
The FCC Emergency Access Advisory Committee (EEAC) will meet tomorrow, Friday, June 14, from 10:30 am to 3:30 pm EDT, to discuss the technologies and protocols...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Short History of TV
Though there is starting to be some serious competition at the edges, Television continues to be a very big means of one to many conversation. Ars Technica has...
From Schneier on Security
Essays Related to NSA Spying Documents
Here's a quick list of some of my older writings that are related to the current NSA spying documents: "The Internet Is a Surveillance State ," 2013. The importance...
From Putting People First
To get the most out of tablets, use smart curation
In a second article in a four-part series on the use of tablets in educational settings, Justin Reich of MindShift examines the topic of curation. “As technologies...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smarter Packaging Yet
A long time interest in making packaging more intelligent. Making it a broader part of the intelligence network. Now we have devices in the hands of consumers...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
They Just Don’t Seem To Get It
An article was published yesterday with the very optimistic title of Computer Science May Become Mandatory Part of Mass Public School Curriculum. If you read the...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Meetings are like sex
Meetings are like sex. Everybody thinks that they are good at it… until they ask for the truth. We never have real discussions about it: I did not want to say anything…...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crowdsourcing Data Analytics
Recently pointed to. Worry about sharing data and ownership of the methods used: " ... Kaggle is the world's largest community of data scientists. They compete...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Reorganizes into Four Industry Specific Sectors
Not unexpected to see a reorganization event here. Reported in CGT. " ... The businesses in each sector are focused on common consumer benefits, share common...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowships includes former CRA Computing Innovation Fellow
Yesterday, Microsoft announced their Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowships and former Computing Innovation Fellow, Katrina Ligett is one of only seven recipients...
From The Eponymous Pickle
EU and Prism
Was expecting an issue here. The EU is known for its strong data privacy laws. Now word that EU companies or those doing work with the EU, may be subject to lawsuits...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
A Forty Minute Tour of CS Education With Mark Guzdial
Mark Guzdial is one of the big names in computer science education. A couple of months ago, he spoke at the GVU Brown Bag Seminar with a talk entitled What We. ...
From Putting People First
Online, we’re all celebrities now. So what next?
“In reality, we’re all kind of on ‘Big Brother’ — on a reality show,” says Syracuse University’s Anthony Rotolo, a professor who runs the Starship NEXIS lab, focusing...
From The Eponymous Pickle