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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 CERIAS Blog
Desperate Convenience: Login with Facebook, Google and LinkedIn
Is your management thinking about allowing people to login to your precious systems by using their Facebook, Google or LinkedIn accounts? What are the risks?...
From CERIAS Blog
Login with Facebook, Google and LinkedIn
Is your management considering logins using Facebook, Google or LinkedIn accounts? What are the risks? One consideration is password policies. I experimented...
From Putting People First
Design in the service of austerity
The UK government’s deficit reduction plan may fall short of its targets, prompting speculation that austerity measures will have to continue into the next parliament...
From Schneier on Security
China Now Blocking Encryption
The "Great Firewall of China" is now able to detect and block encryption: A number of companies providing "virtual private network" (VPN) services to users in...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How To Become A CS Education Thought Leader
I don’t think many people set out to be thought leaders. I sure didn’t but yet I have been called that from time to time. I think that is more flattering than true...
From Wild WebMink
Neelie Kroes Endorses Open Source
This video message from EU vice president Neelie Kroes includes a fantastic explanation of the benefits of open source for public administrations.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Getting Ready for SIGCSE 2013
Somewhere I read that I should buy a plane ticket three months before a trip in order to get the best price. If that's right, then I'm almost two weeks overdue...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile Ads Fail
In AdAge: Why Mobile Ads Still Fail. Interesting look into the industry and related statistics. Is it because we just don't want them on our phone?
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Research Article About Me: Creating Compelling Computer Games
There's a nice story about my research on the Carleton website. I'm particularly happy to see it because it hasn't been easy to figure out my exact thesis project...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Precise Innovation Terminology
Having better terminology for innovation, like it is for many things, makes lots of sense. I find myself often getting into debates about analytics based on this...
From CERIAS Blog
Looking for fail2ban++
If you're looking for a worthwhile project, here's something that could benefit most security practitioners. The application "fail2ban" has been extremely useful...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Branch And Bound—Why Does It Work?
One of the mysteries of computational theory source—our congratulations George Nemhauser is one of the world experts on all things having to do with large-scale...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Oak Ridge Visualization
A short piece on the use of visualization methods at Oak Ridge Labs. Using multiple projectors and images for analytics. Working on a project now that includes...
From Schneier on Security
Information-Age Law Enforcement Techniques
This is an interesting blog post: Buried inside a recent United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime report titled Use of Internet for Terrorist Purposes one canHere's...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Looking Back On CSEdWeek 2012
Last week was Computer Science Education week aka CSEdWeek. This was by far the biggest most active CSEdWeek yet. There are over 3,400 pledges to do something...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Five Senses for the Smart Phone
Looking forward to this development. Cognitive computing: IBM wants to give the smartphone 5 senses. " ... IBM believes technology's future lies in cognitive...
From My Biased Coin
Put This On My List...
Put this on my list of papers I wish I had written: Manipulating Google Scholar Citations and Google Scholar Metrics: simple, easy and tempting. I think the title...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
DARPA Providing Radio Frequency Data Backbone to Match Fiber Optic Capacity
DARPA is envisioning a 100-Gigabit per second Radio Frequency communications link between airborne and ground assets. Currently, fiber optic cables provide the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Science Data Frontiers
Another interesting piece by Steve Miller on the use of social science data. We are at the edge of doing some very interesting data derived from our new devices...
From The Eponymous Pickle