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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 Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
What Would Be Left, If…?
Apocalypses in math and theory, plus a complexity question src Douglas Adams wrote the watchword for today: Don’t Panic. Still, his novel and series The Hitchhiker’s...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Opportunity Begat Opportunity
Occasionally an opportunity comes along, out of the blue, that really makes you stand up and take notice. It is not something that has been on your radar, nor...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Federal Trade Commission Updates Online Privacy Rules For Pre-Teens
On Wednesday the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced the final updated rules for implementing the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). Passed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Coursera Course: Data Analysis in R
What looks to be a useful free course, emphasizing biostatistics, in Coursera, starting January 22. " ... This course will focus on how to plan, carry out, and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Logistics in 2012 and Beyond
Useful predictive commentary on the upcoming changes in logistics and related context and technologies. Via Fabrizio Brasca is vice president, global logistics...
From Schneier on Security
This Week's Overreactions
Schools go into lockdown over a thermometer, a car backfiring, a bank robbery a few blocks away, a student alone in a gym, a neighbor on the street, and some vague...
From Schneier on Security
Amazon Replacement-Order Scam
Clever: Chris Cardinal discovered someone running such a scam on Amazon using his account: the scammer contacted Amazon pretending to be Chris, supplying his billing...
From Wild WebMink
Could Cloud Terms of Use Kill Your Business?
Business service providers are unlikely to just cut you off on a whim. So why do the terms of use all cloud providers impose leave them with an unquestioned right...
From Wild WebMink
Why Did Bern Switch?
I had the chance to discuss with a key instigator the background to the decision by the Swiss city of Bern to switch to open source. You can read about it in my...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How the Internet is Changing English
On the BBC: " ... Online, English has become a common language for users from around the world. In the process, the language itself is changing. ... " . Changing...
From Putting People First
What’s the future of doctors when the sensors in your electronics diagnose disease?
In a future where biometrics are measured constantly and interpretation is aided by algorithm, what do we want our health professionals to actually do, asks Bradley...
From Putting People First
Should there be a standard user interface for cars?
Writer Jason Torchinsky makes a case for a standard user interface for cars: “I know there’s already a number of official and unofficial standards in place — pedal...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mapping Big Data in the US over Time
RecordedFuture maps the location of big data efforts in the US in the coming years. In their Blog. Also provides access to the data it used in their unique future...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Science as Storytelling
Is data science storytelling? Yes, in the sense that everything that is analytical tells a narrative story. It must fit into some sort of preexisting narrative...
From Computational Complexity
Flash Fill
Sometimes it just takes a simple new feature in a popular piece of software to remind us how computer science just does cool stuff. Excel 2013 has a new feature...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM Offers Comments on Federal Cybersecurity R&D Strategy
The National Science Foundation (NSF) sought comments on the Federal Cybersecurity Research and Development Plan. The plan was released in late 2011, and NSF was...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Boosting Productivity with Social Media
In the HBR Blogs: A video interview with Alexandra Samuel. Some interesting points here. Yes, I believe this can be done, selectively. I do not yet believeVision...
From Putting People First
Seven questions with library anthropologist Nancy Fried Foster
In her work anthropologist Nancy Fried Foster applies anthropological principles to the study of the university’s libraries and their users. By focusing on the...
From Putting People First
Dan Saffer on how we *should* interact with the automobiles of the (near) future
Smart Design’s Dan Saffer discusses on Fast Company on how we should interact with the automobiles of the (near) future: “What will this feel like, riding in our...
From Putting People First