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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
Identifying People By Their Phones
More about using biometric behavior with devices like phones for identification." ... Tabletop touch screens such as Microsoft's Surface are designed for sharing...
From Schneier on Security
Workshop on the Economics of Information Security
I am the program chair for WEIS 2011, which is to be held next June in Washington, DC. Submissions are due at the end of February. Please forward and repost the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Store Simulation
I just took a renewed look at the general problem of simulating retail store operations. We worked with a UK vendor called Space Syntax on this at one time. ...
From Wild WebMink
License Compliance: Not An Open Source Problem
The New York Times featured the activities of the GPL enforcement community recently. While there’s a part of me that’s pleased there are people doing this, I’m...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Video Traffic to Explode
Stan Dyck sends this along: " ...By 2014 90% of all Internet traffic will be video. Every device will lead with video. Phone. Tv. PC. #cisco ceo chambers at #Nvtc...
From Schneier on Security
Predator Software Pirated?
This isn't good: Intelligent Integration Systems (IISi), a small Boston-based software development firm, alleges that their Geospatial Toolkit and Extended SQL...
From Wild WebMink
? Gaming The System
When a company asks for your copyright “When a company says which of these conditions it will accept, that will show you how far it plans to depart from the principles...
From My Biased Coin
Guest Post over at Computational Complexity Blog
For those still receiving this feed, I have a guest post briefly describing some aspects of life as Area Dean over at the Computational Complexity blog.
From Computational Complexity
A Note from the Trenches (Guest Post from Michael Mitzenmacher)
Former blogger Michael Mitzenmacher talks about being chair and not blogging. In a day for guest posts, over at Geomblog, David Johnson wants to know practical ...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Finding a Place For Computer Science Education
While I spend a lot of time, some of it laying awake at night, thinking about the state of pre-collegiate computer science education it seems like many more people...
From The Eponymous Pickle
World Statistics Day
The Wolfram Blog posts on World Statistics Day. We use statistically analyzed data every day, but do not often think about the origin of the data, the analysis...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neuromarketing Labels
The BrandShow podcast gives a short and simple overview of the use of neuromarketing for non conscious analysis of a brand. Using Campbell Soup as an example.
From Apophenia
Combating Sexual Exploitation Online
Today, I testified in front of Martha Coakley and other members of the Massachusetts Attorney General Office as part of their Hearing on Sexual Solicitation Online...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stock Exchange for Apps
It is true that it has become harder to find useful Apps. Too many, too obscure, or broad. There are the usual blogs and sites that describe new Apps, but I have...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tibco Silver Spotfire
I am just now getting to look at Tibco Silver Spotfire business intelligence and visualization package. It is now available as a one year free trial. A clever...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Scratch Resistant Polymers
This note from Ideaconnection reminds me of some research work I did in this area long ago. As we carry around more things that need to be handled often and...
From Schneier on Security
Hiding in Plain Sight
Ha! When he's out and about near his Denver home, former Broncos quarterback John Elway has come up with a novel way to travel incognito
From The Eponymous Pickle
Willpower not a Limited Resource
In Lifehacker a short piece on a recent Stanford study. That " ... the endurance you get from willpower is at least in part determined by your beliefs ... ". Obvious...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-10-19
Sender ID Finds Followers Ahead of Approval If anyone has forgotten why RAND and RAND-Z terms are a defect awaiting exploitation to undermine software freedoms,...
From Computational Complexity