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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 My Biased Coin
Online Censorship Day and Other Links
1) Sharon Goldberg and Nick Feamster asked me to announce the following:In the tradition of CAEC, NYCE, and etc, we are holding a "Day" on online censorship at...
From Schneier on Security
Real-World Prisoner's Dilemma from France
This is a real story of a pair of identical twins who are suspected in a crime. There is there is CCTV and DNA evidence that could implicate either suspect. Detailed...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
The Informatics Prize
From a specialty in Complex Analysis Rolf Nevanlinna was one of the top complex analysts of the last century, and is widely cited as the most famous Finnish mathematician...
From Computational Complexity
The Complexity-STOC Bonanza
STOC and Complexity are co-located this July in beautiful Palo Alto, California. Both conferences have just announced their accepted papers: STOC (with PDF links...
From Putting People First
Report: Divided Brain, Divided World
Divided Brain, Divided World; Why the best part of us struggles to be heard is an RSA report that explores the practical significance of the scientific fact that...
From Putting People First
From GoPros to vanity camera drones
Nicolas Nova went skiing and saw a lot of GoPro cameras on people’s heads. He got intrigued, and wrote an Ethnography Matters column where he questions informal...
From Putting People First
The “intentional fallacy” and the “affective fallacy” of interaction design
How seriously should we (as researchers, practitioners, users, and members of society) seek to understand and factor in the intentions of the designers who made...
From Schneier on Security
New al Qaeda Encryption Tool
There's not a lot of information -- and quite a lot of hyperbole -- in this article: With the release of the Asrar Al Dardashah plugin, GIMF promised "secure correspondence"...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Making Money or Making a Difference
I found this very interesting info graphic (OK Doug Peterson tweeted the link so really he found it first) from Seattle University at Training in Technology: The...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Are You Playing a Character, or Just Coaching Them?
Think of your favourite games that are about a particular character. Do you actually play that character, or are you just the coach? That is, are you able to fully...
From Schneier on Security
Massive Police Shootout in Cleveland Despite Lack of Criminals
This is an amazing story. I urge you to read the whole thing, but here's the basics: A November car chase ended in a "full blown-out" firefight, with glass and...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
On Grades and STEM
The other day I was reading () Desire2Learn Acquires Course-Suggestion Software Inspired by Netflix and Amazon. The article discusses a program that uses information...
From Computational Complexity
Proving DFA-langs closed under concat and * without using equiv to NDFA's
While teaching the Equiv of DFA, NDFA, Reg exps, I wanted to impress upon my students that the best way to show DFA-langs are closed under concat and * is to first...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of February 11
February 14 Hearing: The House Select Committee on Intelligence will hold a hearing on advanced cyber threats. 10 a.m., HVC-210 Capitol Visitors Center The Research...
From Schneier on Security
Our New Regimes of Trust
Society runs on trust. Over the millennia, we've developed a variety of mechanisms to induce trustworthy behavior in society. These range from a sense of guiltThis...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CS Principles–An Update
The About the Program page for the CS Principles, A New First Course in Computing website has some updated documents since the last time I visited it. Of particular...
From My Biased Coin
Daily Show
Anyone else watching Jon Stewart making fun of Harvard w/regard to the "cheating scandal".[I need the exact wording for the punch line -- "Open Internet? Is this...
From Schneier on Security
Really Clever TLS Attack
This is an extremely clever man-in-the-middle timing attack against AES that exploits the interaction between how the protocol implements AES in CBC mode for encryption...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The big-O notation is a teaching tool
One of my clients once got upset. Indeed, the running time of our image processing algorithm grew by a factor of four when he doubled the resolution of an image...
From Schneier on Security