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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
All-or-Nothing Access Control for Mobile Phones
This paper looks at access control for mobile phones. Basically, it's all or nothing: either you have a password that protects everything, or you have no password...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Stanford Student's PhD Memoir Worth Reading
Philip Guo's Ph.D. Memoirs have spread like wildfire, and for good reason. His well written short book offers a fascinating look into life as a grad student at...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Eye Tracking in the Aisle
In the WSJ: Continued advanced usage of eye tracking to understand the shopping consumer. Some very interesting detail is included in this article. "...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
CSTA's Annual Conference Raises Questions
This blog entry was originally posted by Doug Peterson at his blog http://dougpete.wordpress.com/2012/07/10/old-and-new-dogs-new-tricks/ and is used with his permission...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM Makes Recommendations On Continuity Of E-Government
One of the consequences of the recent East Coast storm was that several cloud computing services were knocked off line for several hours. As government services...
From Putting People First
Field notes from global tech ethnographer Tricia Wang
A sociologist, ethnographer, and corporate consultant who studies global technology use among migrants, low-income people, youth, and others on society
From Schneier on Security
Dropped USB Sticks in Parking Lot as Actual Attack Vector
For years, it's been a clever trick to drop USB sticks in parking lots of unsuspecting businesses, and track how many people plug them into computers. I have long...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unilever Partners with Facebook for Safe Water
In Consumer Goods Technology: Safe water approaches seem to be coming popular for large consumer goods companies. Admirable effort, and the Facebook connection...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More on Disappearing Checkout Lines
From Kioskmarketplace: This reminds me of the considerable work we did in our retail lab well before the emergence of the smartphone. Kiosks were the rage, and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ideaconnection Blog
Check out the IdeaConnection blog. They are writing about Amway and Open Innovation. " ... Since 2005, global consumer goods company Amway has launched 17 high...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kraft and Fly Garage in Latin America
In Adage: Kraft doing innovation via Fly Garage for Latin America, with some similar goals to other innovation centers that I have worked with. " ... Making the...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Giants Known For Small Things
How small results can be extremely important By permission of Paul Helm, artist—source Johannes Brahms is one of the “Three B’s” of music, along with Johann Sebastian...
From Schneier on Security
Petition the U.S. Government to Force the TSA to Follow the Law
This is important: In July 2011, a federal appeals court ruled that the Transportation Security Administration had to conduct a notice-and-comment rulemaking on...
From Wild WebMink
Even The ITU Is Worried
A press release at the end of last week disclosed the ITU is worried about the epidemic of patent litigation and the abuse of RAND terms on patents by industry...
From The Eponymous Pickle
DARPA Seeks Radical Data Analysis
I had long ago involvement with DARPA, and now am involved with a major proposal to them, they are building up their large scale data involvement. An example: ...
From Schneier on Security
Cryptanalyze the Agrippa Code
William Gibson's Grippa Code is available for cryptanalysis. Break the code, win a prize.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics Magazine: Crowdsourcing, Forecasting, Time series
The July-August Issue of Analytics Mag is out. Lots of useful coverage:Margit Zwemer from Kaggle.com, in this issue's cover story, introduces us to research as...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Facts about global warming that you should keep for yourself
I don’t get invited to parties very often. That is, in part, because I cultivate aggressively critical thinking. My wife will testify that I am doubter, an annoying...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog