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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 U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM Encourages Deficit Reduction Committee to Remember the Value of Computing
The Joint Committee on Deficit Reduction is the formal name of the “Supercommittee” that is supposed to recommend at least $1.2 trillion in deficit reduction over...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Innovation Lab
Having worked at an enterprise innovation lab for years, I found this short piece about the Google X labs interesting, Admittedly we went no where nearly asan...
From Schneier on Security
More SSL Woes
From Mikko Hypponen: "We found a malware sample. Which was signed. With a valid certificate. Belonging to the Government of Malaysia."
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Reminder: CCC Council Nominations Due Tomorrow
A reminder that the Computing Community Consortium (CCC)
From My Biased Coin
Public Salary Information
While visiting Wisconsin last week (enjoying very pleasant company and conversation), various issues came up.For one, I was reminded (or recalled) that as a public...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Are Relational Databases good for anything anymore?
NOTE: thanks to Daniel for letting me use his blog. All comments, questions and criticisms are appreciated, but in this case Daniel is not the guilty party! Antonio...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Many Issues Have No Borders
At the recent CSTA board meeting, a recent paper on the status of computing in several countries (including the USA) was pointed out to me. The paper has Simon...
From The Noisy Channel
CIKM 2011 Industry Event: Stephen Robertson on Why Recall Matters
On October 27th, I had the pleasure to chair the CIKM 2011 Industry Event with former Endeca colleague Tony Russell-Rose. It is my pleasure to report that the program...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Where does debt, credit and currencies come from?
We often believe that primitive cultures lacked currencies and so they engaged in barter. Barter is awfully inconvenient and simply cannot sustain a non-trivial...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of November 14
November 15 Hearing: The Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security of the House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on cybersecurity. 10 a.m.,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cloud Robotics
In the CACM: Had not previously heard about cloud robotics. " ... Their eventual goal, they say, is to enable robots to perform data-intensive functions
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kyield: Management of Knowledge Offer
Mark Montgomery wrote:Greetings,We are planning the development of our patented enterprise platform beginning in early 2012 and so we are seeking well-matched organizations...
From Computational Complexity
Penn State
Take the state of Pennsylvania and draw the two diagonals. Where they cross is the small town of State College, home of the Pennsylvania State University. I first...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Super Hydophobic Coatings
This is related to an R&D project I was involved in: superhydrophobic coatings. Quite a few interesting applications in industry and with consumer products.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Genetics Helping Analytics
I am examining Business Genetics. " ... BusinessGenetics provides your business with a set of tools and resources that enable you to develop a complete set of...
From Schneier on Security
Remotely Opening Prison Doors
This seems like a bad vulnerability: Researchers have demonstrated a vulnerability in the computer systems used to control facilities at federal prisons that could...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 14 November 2011
I spent a lot of time watching the Twitter feed and reading blog posts about the Microsoft Global Forum last week. And some watching the Grace Hopper Celebration...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Acoustic Ruler
An interesting iOS App that lets you measure distances using acoustical measurements. Claims a range up to 25 meters, with resolution between 1 cm and 1 mm. More...
From The Eponymous Pickle