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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
Bibliovorous
I see that colleague Mark Lacy has a new Blog. Bibliovorous - Book-Eating and Related Vices - over 2000 books read since 1971
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-12-23
Privacy Icons: Alpha Release I like this initiative to create symbols to represent the most relevant aspects of provacy policies, so that people don't need to read...
From Schneier on Security
Interview with the European Union Privacy Chief
Interesting interview with Viviane Reding, the vice president of the EU Justice Commission and head of privacy regulation: The basic values in Europe are that...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
High School Computing Is Boring
Periodically I check the list of searches that lead people to this blog. And there are a lot of different items. I’m always supposed at how many people are searching...
From Wild WebMink
The Typhoid Mary Of Three-Strikes
Over the last year, we saw them spring up all over the world, notably in Australia and in France but also in many other countries. It seemed odd that so many legislatures...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
FCC Draws Line in the Net Neutrality Sand
In what is arguably the end of the beginning of the fights over net neutrality, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted yesterday, 3-2 to establish rules...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAS Survival App
Reviewing information about wilderness camping I came upon the best selling SAS Survival Guide by John Wiseman. It was interesting that they are pushing theassociated...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CSTB Committee Emphasizes Parallel Computing Innovations
Two very interesting reports on the future of computing were issued last week.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bumpy Road to Private Clouds
A very good article in Computer World about the complexity of setting up internal clouds. Most of the conversation about Clouds have been those externally situated...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Computing's Evolution in the Enterprise
In Computerworld - Social computing is among the most disruptive technologies making their way into the enterprise. The ever-growing number of users in social networks...
From Schneier on Security
Interview with TSA Administrator John Pistole
He's more realistic than one normally hears: So if they get through all those defenses, they get to Reagan [National Airport] over here, and they've got an underwear...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
CSEdWeek and Beyond
Last week was an awesome week for Computer Science Education. A total of 1,693 people took the pledge on CSEdWeek.org to share information, participate in activities...
From Putting People First
Automakers grapple with New-Age dilemma: software or hardware?
A somewhat older but no less relevant article by Bill Visnic on how automakers are diverging around the question of how to approach the onboard “infotainment” revolution...
From Putting People First
Om Malik: Google has a user experience problem
Om Malik, founder of GigaOM Network, argues in a much commented post that Google has a user experience problem: “As it looks at its future, Google needs to realize...
From Wild WebMink
? FOSS is not
I keep seeing people contrasting “free/open source software” with “commercial software”. This is a really bad contrast, as in my experience almost all open source...
From Schneier on Security
Adam Shostack on TSA Threat Modeling
Good commentary: I've said before and I'll say again, there are lots of possible approaches to threat modeling, and they all involve tradeoffs. I've commentedthe...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-12-22
OpenDJ 2.4.0 Release Notes I'm delighted to say that the first full release of the OpenDJ LDAP directory server from ForgeRock is now available. 100% Java, 100%...
From Computational Complexity
America's Most Important Algorithm
Yesterday the Census Bureau announced the new apportionment of the 435 representatives to states based on the 2010 census. Illinois lost one representative. Texas...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Thinking Speed over Typing Speed
Last week I ran across a blog post by John D Cook titled How much does typing speed matter? that got into the debate over how fast programmers should be able to...
From The Noisy Channel