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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
Proud Simons
Help get the new institute rolling (src) Dick Karp is now the director of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing. Today Ken and I are going to do something...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Mimicking Squid Camouflage
Interesting: Cephalopods - squid, cuttlefish and octopuses - change colour by using tiny muscles in their skins to stretch out small sacs of black colouration....
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Mini-Course 2012: What Made Them Want to Try Computer Science?
Each year, I like to share some of the results from the surveys I give out at the beginning and end of my mini-course (see also info from 2010 and 2011.). They...
From Schneier on Security
Obama's Role in Stuxnet and Iranian Cyberattacks
Really interesting article.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crowd Sourcing Missing People
Had a meeting with a company, Videolocators, which is crowdsourcing the finding of missing children. A clever approach that combines text, video and the use of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Goodies Sampling Subscription Program
In Adage: A clever idea for online engagement from Wal-Mart. " ... Walmart.com's march to catch Amazon in e-commerce and integrate online and offline offerings...
From Wild WebMink
GPL Cops
The folks at the Software Freedom Conservancy were good enough to spend time with me discussing their work on GPL enforcement and sent me this week’s news in advance...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Agent-Based Modeling
Gib Bassett sends along this interesting link about agent based simulation. We actively worked in this space for years. Agent-Based Modeling and Large-Scale Simulation...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Windows 8 Release Preview Released
Yesterday Microsoft announced that Windows 8 Release Preview is now available for download in 14 languages. This is the final pre-release, and includes Windows...
From Schneier on Security
The Vulnerabilities Market and the Future of Security
Recently, there have been several articles about the new market in zero-day exploits: new and unpatched computer vulnerabilities. It's not just software companies...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Early Details About DARPA
A number of news outlets have begun covering Plan X, a new five-year, $110 million cyberwarfare research program that the
From Putting People First
Ethnographic research in a world of big data
Reacting to the Wired Magazine article that suggests that
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cisco Provides Mobile Forecast
Some interesting stats from Cisco on the increasing use of mobile and how it is driving internet traffic. A tidal wave is rising. " ... The
From The Eponymous Pickle
Excellence in Retailing Prize
The second annual Hub Prize competition, honoring excellence in the retail experience, is now underway and will run through July 31. Honored entries will be featured...
From Schneier on Security
Tax Return Identity Theft
I wrote about this sort of thing in 2006 in the UK, but it's even bigger business here: The criminals, some of them former drug dealers, outwit the Internal Revenue...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How do they know they are interested?
Or more importantly how do students know that they are NOT interested in computer science? As I mentioned recently I had a conversation with Mike Zamansky from...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Data alignment for speed: myth or reality?
Compilers align data structures so that if you read an object using 4 bytes, its memory address is divisible by 4. There are two reasons for data alignment: Some...
From Putting People First
Facebook threatens to
Andrew Keen, a British-American entrepreneur and the author of “The Cult of the Amateur” and “Digital Vertigo”, tells CNN why he believes that Facebook is stealing...
From Putting People First
My life as me
Ethnographic research by the Ericsson User Experience Lab, in collaboration with Trendethnography, aimed to discover unconscious behaviour related to health and...
From The Eponymous Pickle