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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
Breaking Up the NSA
The NSA has become too big and too powerful. What was supposed to be a single agency with a dual mission -- protecting the security of U.S. communications and eavesdropping...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Which Comes First–Loops or Arrays?
One of the classing problems in teaching a first course in computer programming is what order to teach various concepts. So many things are interdependent on each...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Generating Serious Games Scenarios with Crowdsourcing
In MIT Technology Review: As summary of a technical paper, which is pointed to. This is the kind of application we used to call 'serious games', but now is more...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Intelligence Quadrant
Nice overview of the current state of business intelligence and descriptive analytics. Includes an overview with the Gartner Quadrant. Also a complete supporting...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
What Isaac Asimov Said About Computer Science Education in 2014
After attending the World's Fair in 1964, Isaac Asimov wrote about the world 50 years in the future, 2014. Fun to read, but I was especially interested in whatAll...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Packaging Drives Purchases
From Kraft: Fairly obvious, packaging should act a signboard that will stop customers in their tracks. A few years ago we looked at approaches like electro luminescence...
From Schneier on Security
CYCLONE Hx9: NSA Exploit of the Day
Today's item from the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) group implant catalog: CYCLONE Hx9 (S//SI//FVEY) EGSM (900MGz) macro-class Network-In-a-Box (NIB)...
From Wild WebMink
Hope in Federations
Originally posted on Meshed Insights & Knowledge:Facebook’s acquisition of WhatsApp gains them almost half a billion users worth of telephone data. We can fully...
From The Eponymous Pickle
John Curran
I see that John Curran, who we worked with extensively in our innovation centers and with retail innovations using advanced display technologies, has unexpectedly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IDEO and Fun in Innovation
From Innovation Excellence via Linkedin: A look at IDEO, asking why the fun has not spread. Worked with IDEO a number of times, including our work at the Innovation...
From Schneier on Security
New Results in Software Obfuscation
Amit Sahai and others have some new results in software obfuscation. The papers are here. An over-the top Wired.com story on the research is here. And Matthew...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 24 February 2014
I’m on vacation! February break in New Hampshire this week. I’m trying to take a break from the computer and the Internet as well – except for catching up on grading...
From Putting People First
Will your clothing spy on you?
In his lecture “The Ethicist’s and the Lawyer’s New Clothes: The Law and Ethics of Smart Clothes,” I. Glenn Cohen, Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School, warns...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Seeking Nominations for New Council Members
The CCC is charged with catalyzing and empowering the U.S. computing research community to articulate and advance major research directions for the field. To do...
From Computational Complexity
When is a paper public? When is anything public?
A while back I had a paper in an intermediary stage. The version posted to my Ramsey Theory Course Website was not final. Is the paper public? I didn't think about...
From The Eponymous Pickle
My Updated One Page Bio
I have updated my one page bio, it continues after the paragraphs below. Feel free to contact me about consulting, strategic and tactical. Franz A. DillFranz Dill...
From The Eponymous Pickle
End of Willow Garage
A robotics research center we followed for some time has apparently ended operation, with employees going on to a number of startups. More detail in Bloomberg....
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Growth of Online Grocery
In the newly discovered Retail Remedy Blog. Where they write: " ... We offer support and advice to all types of retailers from £bn+ multi nationals to high growth...
From The Eponymous Pickle