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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 Daniel Lemire's Blog
The rise to power of computer scientists
Want to become CEO of a major technology company? Consider the background of the hot CEOs of the hour: Amazon: Jeff Bezos has a degree in electrical engineering...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF CISE Distinguished Lecture: The Future of Computing-Mediated Research and Innovation
UPDATE: Due to the potential storm affecting the DC Metro region, this lecture has been postponed. The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kurzweil Reviews the Movie Her
An AI view. Now beyond Minority Report, and with shades of Siri. Is this where we are headed? It does provide an interesting structure to think about how we...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Robotics and The Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games
In anticipation of the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter games, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has partnered with NBC Learn to feature the “Science and Engineering...
From Schneier on Security
SWAP: NSA Exploit of the Day
Today's item from the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) group implant catalog: SWAP (TS//SI//REL) SWAP provides software application persistence by exploiting...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Interactive Storytelling in Games: Next Steps
Last night I gave a lecture for our undergrad society on some of the more interesting recent developments in interactive storytelling, along with a preview of my...
From Apophenia
“It’s Complicated” is dedicated to Peter Lyman
As people start to get copies of my book, I want to offer more context to the brief dedication at the front of the book. “It’s Complicated” is dedicated to my beloved...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Mozilla Foundation, National Science Foundation and US Ignite announce Partnership for Gigabit Community Fund
The Mozilla Gigabit Community Fund was announced on February 6, 2014 as a partnership between the Mozilla Foundation, the National Science Foundation (NSF) and US...
From The Eponymous Pickle
iBeacon and Shopping Behavior
In Mashable: More looks into location based shopping information. With some obvious comments: " ... Will consumers embrace Apple and iBeacon's nearly frictionless...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hangout for the Enterprise
Although I have now tested Google+ Hangouts a number of times, have never tried to work with it under enterprise constraints. A new service permits greater connectivity...
From Computational Complexity
Favorite Theorems: Connecting in Log Space
We start the favorite theorems with a result that might surprise many is still less than ten years old. Undirected Connectivity in Log-Space by Omer ReingoldPDF...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data as Your Doctor
A very obvious conclusion, it was understood in the AI hype of the late 80's. But we didn't have all the hardware or software in place to make it happen. You...
From Schneier on Security
Dispute Resolution Systems for Security Protocols
Interesting paper by Steven J. Murdoch and Ross Anderson in this year's Financial Cryptography conference: "Security Protocols and Evidence: Where Many Payment."...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facial Encoding by Millward Brown
I was reminded about Millward Brown by this article in Neurorelay. I met with a number of their people at a conference in Poland now a number of years ago. "...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Surveillance Generating Big Data
In Computing Now: More data, now what do we do with it? " ... Big data continues to grow exponentially, and surveillance video has become the largest source...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Are We Going To Learn How To Do That?
The other day I was demonstrating some things to my programming students. We’re at the very beginning of a new semester and students are learning the very basics...
From Geeking with Greg
Quick links
What caught my attention lately: Colorful description of Google's servers in 1999: "A thin layer of cork to protect the motherboards from the cookie trays on which...
From Schneier on Security
SOMBERKNAVE: NSA Exploit of the Day
Today's item from the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) group implant catalog: SOMBERKNAVE (TS//SI//REL) SOMBERKNAVE is Windows XP wireless software implant...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog