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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 U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Do Not Track Legislation Reintroduced in Senate
On Thursday Senator Rockefeller of West Virginia introduced legislation to establish an option for people to opt out of tracking their online activity. It is S.418...
From Computational Complexity
Do we ever NEED the adv pumping lemma for Reg langs?
Recall the Pumping Lemma and the Advanced Pumping Lemma for Regular languages: Pump. Lemma: If L is regular and infinite then there exists n such that for all...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Disfluency
In The Edge: Why do simple cues so influence what we perceive? Reminds me of Semiotics, which is also a way to look at how cues change our view of the world, recently...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ultrasound on Smartphones and Tablets
More sensor developments we need to watch. Directly how practical and accurate remains to be seen. " ... Qualcomm, in the fourth quarter of 2012, acquired the...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of March 4
March 6 Hearing: The House Homeland Security Committee will hold a hearing on the Department of Homeland Security’s role in cybersecurity for critical infrastructure...
From My Biased Coin
Rankings Don't Matter (But)
Back when I started at Harvard, people would literally say things to me like, "I didn't know Harvard had computer science." Now I could just point such people here...
From Schneier on Security
Getting Security Incentives Right
One of the problems with motivating proper security behavior within an organization is that the incentives are all wrong. It doesn't matter how much management...
From Putting People First
John Maeda on our life in 2020
In 2020 we might just regain some of the humanity that was lost in 2010, argues John Maeda, president of the Rhode Island School of Design. “The software industry...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 4 March 2013
Last week was school vacation week. Like a lot of teachers I spent the week catching up on things around the house. For me that meant spending a coup[le of days...
From The Eponymous Pickle
ZoomData
Real time data visualization on the iPad: Press release. " ... Zoomdata makes it easy for data administrators to quickly connect its stream-processing engine...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SlateUp: A New Knowledge Community
Just brought to my attention: SlateUp. More to follow. Membership now by invitation to .edu accounts. Check out the site for more information. SponsoredSlateUp...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Towards an Augmediated Life
The new ideas that have been pushed forward for Google Glass look very similar to ideas that have presented for Augmented Reality (AR), while the AR approachesmore...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Teach Robots Lateral Thinking
From MIT News: An area we examined. How do you teach a help mate robot ways to get around their physical limitations? A floor sweeping robot can trade timewith...
From Wild WebMink
Not Risk But Trust
Amanda Palmer has stumbled on trust as the answer to the music industry's problems.
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Cloud Intrusion
An example of a cloud security issue with the popular package Evernote, which I have used for some time. Good example which led me to refresh my understandinghashing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Putting a Value on Data
This question came to mind during a meeting this week. Here a good overview. To me it is first how the data can be used today to improve decision process.......
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson in College
In GigaOM: more steps towards a revolution in AI? How do you learn and collaborate like humans? Our own journey into AI used similar methods, but the large"...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Cryptography Is Dead?
Comments from a keynote panel Whitfield “Whit” Diffie, Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Dan Boneh are all famous cryptographers. They just gave a keynote panel at this...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Search Works
From Google, a mostly visual description of how search works. From algorithms to answers. No algorithm details, and all of this would be known by anyone who has...
From Wild WebMink