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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
Scavenging Power
Fascinating Fastcompany article about scavenging power from waste paper and data. Must be some sort of energy conservation involved, though we will always have...
From Schneier on Security
Breaking the Xilinx Virtex-II FPGA Bitstream Encryption
It's a power-analysis attack, which makes it much harder to defend against. And since the attack model is an engineer trying to reverse-engineer the chip, it's...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Meeting Shopper Expectations
In e-commerce Times: '... In-content ad delivery is tightly integrated with the content a consumer is most interested in -- e.g., a post in a forum, an article...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of August 1
Yes, there is more to Washington right now than negotiations and voting on the results. August 2 Briefing: The Strategic Forces Subcommittee of the Senate Armed...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Scientists are communists
Overconfident individuals often win by claiming more resources than they could defend (Johnson and Fowler). If nobody knows who is strongest, whoever thinks he...
From Computational Complexity
Does STOC/FOCS take simple-nice-ideas papers? A one-element case study
WRITTEN AUG 1,2011: It has been said that simple innovative ideas to not get into STOC/FOCS and only hard technical improvements do. This is one of the motivations...
From Schneier on Security
Using Science Fiction to Teach Computer Security
Interesting paper: "Science Fiction Prototyping and Security Education: Cultivating Contextual and Societal Thinking in Computer Security Education and Beyond,"...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 1 August 2011
Last week was incredible at the US Innovative Education Forum. I
From The Noisy Channel
Upcoming Information Retrieval Conferences
I hope everyone who attended the recent SIGIR 2011 in Beijing had an excellent experience. I didn’t manage to make it to that side of the globe myself, but I’m...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neural Prosthetics
Good piece on neural prosthetics, prompted by military injuries, considerable progress is being made.
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Hubble and Enterprise Planning
I have been reading Eric J Chaisson's Book: The Hubble Wars, a detailed view of the launch and operation of the Hubble Space Telescope. My background is in astrophysics...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Maps Changing the Look of Data
in GigaOm. Good example of using Google maps based mashups to visualize data. I have seen a number of good examples of this. Simple representations.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Whats the Value of a Facebook Fan?
How many friends they have. Obvious answer but the piece makes a reasonable justification.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
An Online AI Course
This fall, our colleagues Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig are offering a free, online version of their popular Stanford University course, “Introduction to Artificial...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: 25-foot Giant Squid Caught in Fishing Net
A 25-foot (or maybe 23-foot) giant squid was caught off the coast of Florida. Also, I'm going to try something new. Let's use this weekly squid post to talk...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gartner's Value Chain Transformation Imperatives
A very good piece in the Informs Analytics Magazine. I agree. Have been recently involved in looking analytically at the transformation of major supply chain...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Innovative Education Forum–Judging Day
Wow! Just WOW! I spent yesterday judging teacher projects as part of the US Innovative Educator Forum in Redmond. It was absolutely inspiring. In fact I would go...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson