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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 Schneier on Security
A Useful Side-Effect of Misplaced Fear
A study in the British Journal of Criminology makes the point that drink-spiking date-raping is basically an urban legend: Abstract. There is a stark contrast...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Science Behind Neuromarketing Webinar
This Wednesday I am attending a Webinar by Sands Research ' ... presented by Dr. Steve Sands, Chairman and Chief Science Officer, on Wednesday, November 18th...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of November 16
November 17 Hearing: The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on cybersecurity, with an emphasis on fighting terrorism and protecting privacy. 10 a.m...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unilever: Major Innovations Underway
Former P&G exec now Unilever CEO Paul Polman says very big innovations are underway: ' ... Unilever says its products soon will be available using results fromGenesis...
From Computational Complexity
Rules about Blogs becaues Blogs RULE!
There are now laws about blogging and twittering that Lance and I (and all the bloggers) will need to be aware of. Here is a short summary: If a blogger posts...
From Putting People First
Recipes for disaster
Over the last months Experientia collaborator Irene Cassarino has been working intensively on the preparation of Experientia’s Low2No project in Helsinki, Finland...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAP's Corporate Social Network Analyzer
Interestingly enterprise transaction software giant SAP has developed a prototype system that analyzes network data to determine business relationships. You can...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile ChaCha at Marsh
A very simple marketing idea where you text a mobile question to ChaCha, get an answer and a promotion to be used at Marsh, and go to a local store to pick it up...
From My Biased Coin
Conference Reviewing Update
A few weeks ago, I talked about the reviewing process for NSDI and LATIN. I suppose now is a reasonable time for an update.LATIN is nearing the end of the reviewing...
From Schneier on Security
Public Reactions to Terrorist Threats
Interesting research: For the last five years we have researched the connection between times of terrorist threats and public opinion. In a series of tightly designed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmenting Your Reality: Junaio
More augmented reality methods for online and mobile.Took a look at the Junaio augmented reality browser on the IPhone today. The basic idea is to let you augment...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What it Takes to Lead Now
By John Baldoni in the Harvard Business Publishing Blog, A majority of managers just don't understand what it means to be a leader ... '
From Schneier on Security
Bruce Schneier Action Figure
A month ago, ThatsMyFace.com approached me about making a Bruce Schneier action figure. It's $100. I'd like to be able to say something like "half the proceeds...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Quick Thoughts on Pregnancy and Grad School
For some reason or another, a few recent online conversations have got me thinking about pregnancy and grad school. (I suppose visiting a friend with a month-old...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Text Mining Handbook
Long on my stack, just making my way through: The Text Mining Handbook: Advanced Approaches in Analyzing Unstructured Data by Ronen Feldman and James Sanger. A...
From The Noisy Channel
An Ad-Supported Model With Teeth?
Apple recently filed for technology to deliver a rather compelling ad-supported business model. Or perhaps the better word is compulsory. You can read an analysis...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bias of Convenient Study Choices
Always thought there was something wrong with using US college students for determining universal psychological facts about populations, except when determining...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Computational Complexity and Games
From MIT, an interesting piece about representing the real world, always a good thing to think about. I never thought that game theory could accurately represent...
From Computer Science Teachers Association