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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 Computational Complexity
Another Algorithmic Market Failure
In 2009, Matt Cushman, Managing Director at Knight Equity Markets, gave a seminar at Northwestern on "High Frequency Trading". Here is the abstract: High frequency...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
2012 Microsoft US Forum Wrap Up
I missed out on most of the US Forum this year but as I said on Monday () I was able to attend the gala that finished out the event with the award ceremony. I wanted...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Flash Drives vs Disk
More reliable and much faster. Expect flash drives to take over from disk drives. But with the advent of the pervasive Cloud will we be storing much less there...
From My Biased Coin
Article about DEC Folk
Interesting Wired article talking about a bunch of people I worked with back when I was at Digital Systems Research Center, and their big effect on Google. It's...
From Schneier on Security
Chinese Gang Sells Fake Professional Certifications
They were able to hack into government websites: The gang’s USP, and the reason it could charge up to 10,000 yuan (£1,000) per certificate, was that it could hack...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Marketing Experiments
Wharton WCAI has an upcoming free webinar on Marketing Experiments: From the Basics to the Cutting Edge. On September 12. I plan to attend. More information...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cloud Privacy Illusions
A recent conversation with a client brought up the issue of privacy in the cloud. How does it differ from information stored in other locations? In E-Commerce...
From Schneier on Security
Yet Another Risk of Storing Everything in the Cloud
A hacker can social-engineer his way into your cloud storageand delete everything you have. It turns out, a billing address and the last four digits of a credit...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
You're invited to a Windows 8 DevCamp in city near you
Location DevCamp...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tesco Virtual Stores in the UK
Richard James writes: In the Guardian: "Tesco has launched the UK's first virtual supermarket at Gatwick airport in the hope bored holidaymakers waiting for their...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Enters Social Gaming
Amazon enters the gaming fray. " ... Amazon says that it has started making social games because it believes it can make social games well. "We know that many...
From Schneier on Security
Peter Swire Testifies on the Inadequacy of Privacy Self-Regulation
Ohio State University Law Professor Peter Swire testifies before Congress on the inadequacy of industry self-regulation to protect privacy.
From Geeking with Greg
The computer scientist CEO
Marissa Mayer as CEO of Yahoo may be a test of a new style of executive leadership, the optimizing CEO. She is not the first computer scientist to lead a major...
From Wild WebMink
On Marital Harmony
In InfoWorld today, I explain why I gave my wife my iPad. She loves it, and I am very happy too as I now use a Google Nexus 7 tablet for everything the iPad used...
From Putting People First
How to reimagine wearable technology
PSFK spoke to Dhani Sutanto, a Digital Art Director who became fed up with swiping his Oyster card through the reader like millions of other Londoners each day....
From Putting People First
Interaction design for data visualizations
Interactive data visualizations are an exciting way to engage and inform large audiences. They enable users to focus on interesting parts and details, to customize...
From Putting People First
Service design at IKEA
Walking through IKEA over the weekend with two young children, writes Shailesh Manga on UXMovement, was a healthy reminder of what contributes to an ideal customer...
From Putting People First
Tablet versus PC: a creative decision
By fighting over whether tablets or PCs are better tools for creating content—as a sort of proxy war over whose vision owns the future of computing devices—we may...
From My Biased Coin
Like a Movie Meteor...
The new semester is hurtling toward me.This semester I get to teach one of my graduate courses, the one I named Algorithms at the End of the Wire sometime over...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog