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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
Book Review: Cyber War Will Not Take Place
Thomas Rid, Cyber War Will Not Take Place, Oxford University Press, 2013. Cyber war is possibly the most dangerous buzzword of the Internet era. The fear-inducing...
From Schneier on Security
Cognitive Biases About Violence as a Negotiating Tactic
Interesting paper: Max Abrahms, "The Credibility Paradox: Violence as a Double-Edged Sword in International Politics," International Studies Quarterly, 2013: ...
From Putting People First
Sustainable living and behavioral change
Below a selection of pieces from The Guardian’s sustainable living hub: The power of behavioural design: looking beyond nudging Christoph Burmester – 10 September...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data Explored and Vindicated
Review of: Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think by Viktor Mayer-Schonberger, and Kenneth Cukier. Strongly recommended, for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Windows 8.1 Installed by an Expert
My long time colleague Walter Riker waxes technical about his installation of Windows 8.1 He is also an expert on Office 365 (He teaches it for companies). and...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A Request That We Passed On
Peto de la Simons Instituto Alistair Sinclair is a “British computer scientist and computational theorist”—to quote our friends at Wikipedia. I know him more as...
From The Eponymous Pickle
University of Arkansas RFID Center
From the RFID Journal: A now dated piece, but reminded me of work we did with RFID technology and the University of Arkansas back in 2003. And another excellent...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Competition for Google Glass
In Ars Technica: Which reports that there are now eleven companies selling Glass-like computing headgear. Samsung has also joined in. Interesting array of competition...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Wearables
In the Cisco Blog: More on wearable computing. Is Glass only an entry point? And how personalized will computing technology get? We have smartphones so close...
From My Biased Coin
Mitzenmacher Drinking Game?
I've been visiting the Simons Institute for one of their workshops the last few days. I got my advisor Alistair Sinclair to give me a tour. I have to say, that's...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
New Awards Made by Multiple Agencies for the National Robotics Initiative
In 2011, President Obama announced the National Robotics Initiative (NRI) as part of the broader effort of the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership Initiative in...
From Computational Complexity
Science and Humanities
David Hollinger, a historian, wrote a recent Chronicle Review article The Wedge Driving Academe's Two Families Apart: Can STEM and the human sciences get along?...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sifting Data Visually for Connections
Another example of the use of using visualization to determine non obvious connections: " ... Hypergraph, which is now part of Recommind’s Axcelerate On-Demand...
From Schneier on Security
DARPA Contest for Fully-Automated Network Defense
DARPA is looking for a fully-automated network defense system: What if computers had a "check engine" light that could indicate new, novel security problems? What...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Global Value Chains
In Knowledge @ Wharton: A turning point in the maturation of global value chains. A good overview. I note that Morris Cohen is quoted, who we did work with in...
From Putting People First
‘An Overview of Service Design for the Private and Public Sectors’ report
Service design is an approach to innovating both private and public sector services that places the user at the heart of the development process. Service design...
From Putting People First
Is UX design the next big thing?
UX design explained for advertisers: “Here is where the world of communication and the world of computing starts to merge in intent. Systems are to be used. Products...
From Putting People First
Four myths about UX and how to bust them
Brian Pagán describes four common UX myths and how to “bust” them: UX is too soft; it’s not based on anything Anyone can do UX UX is too expensive UX is just interaction...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Would a TV Show Fix the CS Recruitment Program?
A recent article in the New York Times called “I am Woman, Watch me Hack” brought up an idea I hear expressed pretty regularly. The idea is that the right TV show...
From The Eponymous Pickle