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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 CERIAS Blog
The Secunia Personal Software Inspector
So you have all the patches from Microsoft applied automatically, Firefox updates itself as well as its extensions... But do you still have vulnerable, outdated...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Qwaq Becomes Teleplace
I recently brought up Qwaq, which we looked at for remote visual, avatar-enabled collaboration. They announced today that they have become Teleplace. Good nameTeleplace...
From Computational Complexity
The Netflix Prize and the Sequel
Nearly three years ago I posted on the just announced Netflix prize. First to a 10% increase in the quality of the movie recommendations would receive a million...
From Putting People First
Enhancing user interaction with first person user interface
Luke Wroblewski, an internationally recognized Web thought leader and Senior Director of Product Ideation & Design at Yahoo! Inc., provides a comprehensive overview...
From Putting People First
Interfaces Magazine interviews Donald Norman
The latest issue of Interfaces Magazine, a quarterly magazine published by Interaction, the specialist HCI group of the British Computer Society (BCS), contains...
From Schneier on Security
Hacking Two-Factor Authentication
Back in 2005, I wrote about the failure of two-factor authentication to mitigate banking fraud: Here are two new active attacks we're starting to see: Man-in-the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IFTF on Future Knowledge Ecosystems
I worked with Institute for the Future for years, and blogged for them as well. A new interesting report from them: Future Knowledge Ecosystems: The Next Twenty...
From Schneier on Security
Quantum Computer Factors the Number 15
This is an important development: Shor's algorithm was first demonstrated in a computing system based on nuclear magnetic resonance -- manipulating molecules in...
From My Biased Coin
Not Teaching / Double Teaching
Last semester, for various reasons, I ended up "double-teaching", offering both my undergraduate algorithms class and my graduate network algorithms class. The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Atlas - Modeling Shopper Behavior : Paper
I recently posted about a shopper modeling system from TNS - Sorensen called Atlas, at that link you will find more information about the method and how it is evolving...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Measuring Social ROI
Measuring social network ROI, fairly obvious, but with some useful examples.
From Schneier on Security
Inferring Friendship from Location Data
Interesting: For nine months, Eagle's team recorded data from the phones of 94 students and staff at MIT. By using blue-tooth technology and phone masts, theyabstract...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Talk Like a Pirate Day
Arrr! I hope everyone had a swashbuckling day this past September 19. As you no doubt knew, September 19 is International Talk Like a Pirate Day - an unofficial...
From Computational Complexity
Why You Shouldn't Not Go to FOCS
You can now register on-line for FOCS which includes the 50th celebration. Early registration deadline is October 1. Hotel rate good until October 9th or whilehttp...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Face of Data
Akin to Chernoff faces, but univariate. You can generate a smiley face in Excel that displays a range of emotions. Fun and perhaps useful if you can stand a smiley...
From The Eponymous Pickle