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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 Putting People First
Three categories of wearables will become prevalent, says Intel chief
Three different categories of device – for the ears, eyes and wrists, and each with its own set of uses – will soon become prevalent, predicts new Intel chief executive...
From Putting People First
“An Aura of Familiarity”
In 2013, the Technology Horizons Program of the Institute for the Future commissioned six leading science fiction writers — Cory Doctorow, Rudy Rucker, Warren Ellis...
From Putting People First
Can interaction design civilize the experience economy?
The emerging experience economy offers a possibility—yet only a possibility—for rethinking and designing new frameworks for social interaction and new forms of...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Ghostbusting Old Factoring Ideas
Can ‘Shades’ of Carmichael Numbers be busted? MAA source Robert Carmichael was an American mathematician who worked and published in various areas of mathematics...
From Schneier on Security
PRISM Q&A
Mikko Hypponen and I answered questions about PRISM on the TED website.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Multi National Supply Chains in China
In Knowledge@Wharton: (In English and Chinese). " ... Chinese Supply Chains Reach an ‘Inflection Point’ – and Multinationals Recast Strategies ... " Precisely...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cities in a Complex World
From the Santa Fe Institute: I used to be our representative to SFI in the 90s and we got quite a few inspirations from them, and we provided them with problems...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Flexible Workplaces and the New Mobile World
In SMB Resource: This article was brought to my attention recently. It struck home because I have been working with companies that are increasingly specifying...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
FCC Open Commission Meeting on July 19
The FCC will discuss the IP Speech-to-Speech Relay program and a report on the implementation of Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Thoughts On Mobile Phone Development
For the second year the annual CSTA Conference has had a mobile phone development “throwdown.” In this session each participant has 15 minutes to create a mobile...
From Schneier on Security
Snowden's Dead Man's Switch
Edward Snowden has set up a dead man's switch. He's distributed encrypted copies of his document trove to various people, and has set up some sort of automatic...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Predictive Analytics
This piece makes the point that I often do ... that all analytics, all business decisions, are predictive. The word 'predictive' includes the implication that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Technology Autonomy
Had not heard the term before, but it relates to how strongly an IT department can act as a gatekeeper to software, in this new era of 'Bring Your Own' tools. ...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
An Hour of Code–Something for CS Ed Week 2013
At the CSTA Conference earlier this week Hadi Partovi from Code.Org announced some plans for this year’s Computer Science Education Week. Specifically providing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Knowledge @ Wharton for High School
I have always enjoyed the Wharton series of papers and videos. I just noticed that they had a series of posts especially designed for High School Students. ...
From My Biased Coin
MS Faculty Summit Day Two
Day Two of the summit started with a keynote shared between Peter Lee and Jeannette Wing, who now seem to be sharing heading up Microsoft research. (Rick Rashid...
From Schneier on Security
DHS Puts its Head in the Sand
On the subject of the recent Washington Post Snowden document, the DHS sent this e-mail out to at least some of its employees: From: xxxxx Sent: Thursday, July...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Library of Congress Legislative Data Challenge: Markup of U.S. Legislation in Akoma Ntoso
The Library of Congress invites the public to participate in its first Legislative Data Challenge. The winning solution will provide the most effective representation...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computing and Communication Foundations Program Solicitation
The NSF has recently issued a new program solicitation – Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF): Core Programs. According to the solicitation, “The Division...
From Schneier on Security