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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
Procter Focus on Sales and Innovation
In the Cincinnati Enquirer: P&G outlines focus on sales and innovation at the Wall Street Meeting in Cincinnati yesterday. A good outline of company direction...
From Schneier on Security
Hiding PETN from Full-Body Scanners
From the Journal of Transporation Security, "An evaluation of airport x-ray backscatter units based on image characteristics," by Leon Kaufman and Joseph W. Carlson...
From The Noisy Channel
CIKM 2011 Industry Event
CIKM 2011 is nearly a year away, but I wanted to give folks a heads up about the Industry Event there that I am organizing with Tony Russell-Rose. These events...
From Schneier on Security
Did the FBI Plant Backdoors in OpenBSD?
It has been accused of it. I doubt this is true. One, it's a very risky thing to do. And two, there are more than enough exploitable security vulnerabilities...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
PCAST Issues Report on NITRD program
On December 16 the President's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology (PCAST) issued the latest in its Congressionally required assessments of the Networking...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-12-17
Marwell Wildlife: Adopt a Penguin If you're stuck for a gift idea for a Linux fan in the UK (or elsewhere actually), consider giving a Marwell animal sponsorship…...
From Schneier on Security
Fake Amazon Receipt Generators
They can be used to scam Amazon Marketplace merchants: What happens once our scammer is armed with his fake receipt? Well, many sellers on Amazon will ask you...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mechanical Turk Challenged by Spam
We used Amazon's Mechanical Turk to successfuly solve several human intelligence tasks in the enterprise. Unfortunately it is now reported that a large percentage...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retailers and In Store Smart Phones
A very good article in the WSJ about the increasing use of smartphones in stores to compare prices and other information about products via search and barcode scanning...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Science Teacher Education
Mark Guzdial makes a strong case that the Best hope for CS Teacher Education is in-service, not pre-service. Basically there is not enough demand for strong pre...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blogging has Peaked Says Pew Report
In ReadwriteWeb: It importantly varies by demographic, but the Pew Internet Report appears to indicate that the frequency of Blogging appears to have peaked on...
From The Eponymous Pickle
NGram Visualization Tool
New from Google Labs, the ability to plot the usage of words or phrases in Google's huge and growing scanned corpora of text. Easy to use and simple to applyThe...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
The Story of My Comps
I did my oral defence for my comprehensive exam this morning and wanted to share what I learned, since it might help others. The details aren't important, butDolly...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
CS Ed Week a Success!
The 2nd annual Computer Science Education Week (CSEdWeek) wrapped up last week, and thanks to some incredible partner support and engagement from the computingwebsite...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Computer Science Education Week Extends Its Reach
This is a repost from Blog@CACM, the blog connected to Communications of the ACM It was written by Debra Richardson, Chair of the 2010 Computer Science Education...
From Computational Complexity
Low, Superlow, supersuperlow sets, and Paywalls
Recall the following: If A is a set then A' (pronounced 'A jump') is the halting set relative to A. Formally it is: { e | MeA(e) converges } A set A is ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Geo-Fenced Advertising in Test
Intriguing direction that could provide better shopper behavior and location understanding. For example this could be used to understand when a shopper enters...
From The Eponymous Pickle