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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
Predicting Product Success
Predicting Product Launch success. We worked on this using a number of simulation based methods. Interesting case study here: " ... Back in May, Kaggle ran...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid T-Shirt
A T-shirt with a drawing of a squid reading. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
From Schneier on Security
IRATEMONK: NSA Exploit of the Day
Today's item from the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) group implant catalog: IRATEMONK (TS//SI//REL) IRATEMONK provides software application persistence...
From Michael Nielsen
Reinventing Explanation
My new essay on the use of digital media to explain scientific ideas is here.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Science Has An Identity Problem
Where does computer science fit? At the university level I’ve seen it in Business departments/Schools of Business. I’ve seen it in various science schools – Schools...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What's Watson for Midsize Companies?
Back on January 9th I attended the IBM announcement of its group for Watson applications. I tweeted the announcement at @FranzD #IBMWatson. Full announcement....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Attributing Attacks on the Internet of Things
A discussion of the implication of security on the Internet of Things. If everything is connected, the path to us or our households brings insecurity yet closer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Connecting Cloud and Business
Connecting the cloud and big data for business. A piece from Pneuron, which I am looking into. I was struck by this statement: " ... Data is more volatile than...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Systems to Prevent Deception Fail
A discussion of systems that are meant to prevent deception and unethical behavior. In Knowledge@Wharton. A topic in any system that is meant to gather human"...
From Schneier on Security
Another Credit-Card-as-Authentication Hack
This is a pretty impressive social engineering story: an attacker compromised someone's GoDaddy domain registration in order to change his e-mail address and steal...
From Putting People First
The Facebook ethnography kerfuffle
At the center of this kerfuffle is an anthropologist, Daniel Miller, his ethnographic research with teenagers in a small town in the UK, and a press report on a...
From Schneier on Security
HOWLERMONKEY: NSA Exploit of the Day
Today's item from the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) group implant catalog: HOWLERMONKEY (TS//SI//REL) HOWLERMONKEY is a custom Short to Medium rangehere...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Global Warming?
It snowed in Atlanta, and we are closed, for the foreseeable future—where is global warming? Atlanta is frozen. Here is what we looked like the other night. Today...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Meaning of Quality Assurance
This CW article led me to the meaning of QA ... " ... Long undervalued, quality assurance is in the limelight -- and QA pros in demand -- following the disaster...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Motivation via a Connected Cosumer
Quite obvious, people are always looking at the motivation of recommendations. Can we now get at the motivation more clearly? (In Supermarket News, requires registration...
From Schneier on Security
Side-Channel Attacks on Frog Calls
The male túngara frog Physalaemus pustulosus uses calls to attract females. But croaking also causes ripples in the water, which are eavesdropped on -- both by...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Media in the Enterprise
Charlene Li speaks on the topic, relating to a recent study: " .... Overall, we found that investment in headcount and infrastructure have steadily grown, as companies...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
To be smarter, try being crazier?
Many of us want to be original in our work. For researchers, it is a job requirement. For software programmers, it makes little sense to redo what others did. Many...
From Schneier on Security
Catalog of Snowden Revelations
This looks to be very good. Add that to these three indexes of NSA source material, and these two summaries. This excellent parody website has a good collection...
From The Eponymous Pickle