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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
Doping in Professional Sports
I updated a 2006 essay of mine on the security issues around sports doping.
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Design of Business
Recently brought to my attention again: Roger Martin's 2009 book: The Design of Business, Why Design Thinking is the next competitive Advantage. It has bee on...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Two Interesting Games With a Message
I found a couple of interesting games after reading Kotaku's recent article The Complicated Truth Behind Games That Want to Change the World. One has more gameplay...
From My Biased Coin
WSDM 2013 Accepted Papers
The list of papers accepted to WSDM 2013 is now up. Looks like the usual fun mix of papers.
From Schneier on Security
Dan Ariely on Dishonesty
Good talk, and I've always liked these animators.
From Putting People First
Book: Meta Products – Building the Internet of Things
Meta Products Meaningful Design For Our Connected World by Wimer Hazenberg and Menno Huisman BIS Publishers, 160 pages 2012 Meta Products discusses the rise of...
From Putting People First
Designing products for value
By encouraging more focused collaboration among multiple functional groups (notably marketing and sales, operations, engineering/R&D, and procurement), these leaders...
From Putting People First
Google and the UX challenge of augmented reality
The new Google FieldTrip app probes the question: What digital information do you want to see overlaid on the physical world? A challenge that Bruce Sterling describes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tesco Invests in Global e-Comerce
Always impressed with Tesco's retail technology savvy, so this is worth following:With 6,234 stores in 13 countries and annual sales of 72 billion pounds ($116...
From Schneier on Security
Detecting Fake Hurricane Photographs
A short tutorial here. Actually, it's good advice even if there weren't a hurricane.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gamification in Business
On Gamification in Business. Have been involved in conceptualizing and delivering several of the these projects. None were a complete success. But the metaphor...
From Schneier on Security
Protecting (and Collecting) the DNA of World Leaders
There's a lot of hype and hyperbole in this story, but here's the interesting bit: According to Ronald Kessler, the author of the 2009 book In the President’s,...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Is reading memory faster than writing on a PC?
For human beings, reading is much faster than writing. The same is often true for computers: adding a record to a database may take an order of magnitude longer...
From Computational Complexity
Fall Jobs Post
Time again for the annual fall jobs post. As always the best places to look for academic CS positions are the job sites at the CRA and the ACM. Also check out the...
From Apophenia
Truth, Lies, and ‘Doxxing’: The Real Moral of the Gawker/Reddit Story (from Wired)
I wrote the following piece for Wired. I’m keeping it here for posterity, but check out the comments over on Wired. Sitting U.S. President Ford was visiting San...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tips vs Bribes
An HBS Working knowledge piece on Tips vs bribes. Which reminds me of early training in this area. always saw the training as very well thought out, but always...
From Wild WebMink
Triangulation And Butter
Why should we care about protecting small items of personal data, such as our date of birth, parents’ names, post code and so on? Why does it matter when we’re...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson