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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 The Eponymous Pickle
DARPA sees Analog
My introduction to digital computing came just as the last courses were taught using analog methods. The convenience of digital devices was so overwhelming that...
From Wild WebMink
Clouds
These were the ones over the Dales – on the way into Wensleydale, in fact – rather than anything to do with computing.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
“Computational Social Science: Making the Links”
There’s a great article in this week’s Nature – out this afternoon — featuring computer scientists like Cornell’s Jon Kleinberg, Harvard’s David Lazar, and Columbia’s...
From The Eponymous Pickle
PayPal and Retail
PayPal, in collaboration with Discover, expands its presence in US retail. Press release. " ... Starting sometime next year, that arrangement will let PayPal...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Online Coding Exercises For Programming Education
Well it is that time of year again – back to school. On the SIGCSE mailing list are a couple of reminders about online exercise tools for a variety of programming...
From Schneier on Security
Five "Neglects" in Risk Management
Good list, summarized here: 1. Probability neglect – people sometimes don’t consider the probability of the occurrence of an outcome, but focus on the consequences...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Suggestion Driven Improvements
Key drivers of successful suggestion driven improvement programs to increase quality. You connect to the right possibilities, then seriously develop them. An...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Faster Product Development
A new look at faster and more successful product development. Generate and test. Ready, fire, aim. In part this depends on how expensive the 'fire' segment is...
From Computational Complexity
Ten Years of the Complexity Blog
On August 22, 2002 I wrote the following immortal words to start this blog This is my complexity web log. I'll be giving random thoughts about computational complexity...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
DARPA to Hold Proposers’ Day Ahead of New Foundational Cyberwarfare Program
On Monday, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced a Sept. 27 Proposers’ Day for its Foundational Cyberwarfare program, a new initiative...
From Schneier on Security
Poll: Americans Like the TSA
Gallup has the results: Despite recent negative press, a majority of Americans, 54%, think the U.S. Transportation Security Administration is doing either an excellent...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Social Sciences
In the Edge: I was brought up in the hard sciences, so was always skeptical of how the fuzzy social sciences could be quantified in a meaningful way. But asNicholas...
From Wild WebMink
Dentdale
We spent the last two days in Dentdale (in the Yorkshire Dales National Park) following my talk at OggCamp. Here’s a taste of what it was like:
From Schneier on Security
Is iPhone Security Really this Good?
Simson Garfinkel writes that the iPhone has such good security that the police can't use it for forensics anymore: Technologies the company has adopted protect...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Day of the "Tech" Girl
October 11, 2012 is the first ever International Day of the Girl Child. The United Nations set this date aside to recognize that empowerment of and investment in...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Cheating Or Mastering?
An (un)intended consequence of on-line learning? src Sebastian Thrun is a co-founder of Udacity, one of the several new companies that are involved in on-line learning...
From The Eponymous Pickle
iPhone Rumors from RecordedFuture
Chris Holden, of RecordedFuture, the forward looking search engine that semantically interprets future mentions of information on public and private webs, sends...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
“Health IT for You”
The Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) — which in fall 2009 launched the Strategic...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Highlights: “What Makes Paris Look Like Paris?”
We all identify cities by certain attributes, such as building architecture, street signage, even the lamp posts and parking meters dotting the sidewalks. Now there’s...
From Computational Complexity