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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
Attacking PLCs Controlling Prison Doors
Embedded system vulnerabilities in prisons: Some of the same vulnerabilities that the Stuxnet superworm used to sabotage centrifuges at a nuclear plant in Iran...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Congratulations Louis Zulli Jr. and Doug Bergman
There were nine winners in the Partners in Learning 2011 U.S. Innovative Education Forum, four second place winners and five first place winners (one of these was...
From My Biased Coin
Fun Links, via Google+
One fun aspect of being on Google+ is occasionally a link comes along worth further notice.The first, from David Karger, is a link to a report (by Democrats, says...
From Wild WebMink
? Kiva Free Trial
Kiva is a project that allows you to make tiny loans, together with many other people, that accumulate to make a larger loan that will prove huge for an otherwise...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Is Computer Science Antithetical to the Liberal Arts?
Many of us who teach college level computer science have been happy with the latest news about computing and IT related jobs. With the promise of fast growth in...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
The
The NSF’s Science Nation has a great feature today on the “Science of Shopping,” describing how computer scientists Rajeev Sharma and Satish Mummareddy have developed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Scavenging Power
Fascinating Fastcompany article about scavenging power from waste paper and data. Must be some sort of energy conservation involved, though we will always have...
From Schneier on Security
Breaking the Xilinx Virtex-II FPGA Bitstream Encryption
It's a power-analysis attack, which makes it much harder to defend against. And since the attack model is an engineer trying to reverse-engineer the chip, it's...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Meeting Shopper Expectations
In e-commerce Times: '... In-content ad delivery is tightly integrated with the content a consumer is most interested in -- e.g., a post in a forum, an article...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of August 1
Yes, there is more to Washington right now than negotiations and voting on the results. August 2 Briefing: The Strategic Forces Subcommittee of the Senate Armed...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Scientists are communists
Overconfident individuals often win by claiming more resources than they could defend (Johnson and Fowler). If nobody knows who is strongest, whoever thinks he...
From Computational Complexity
Does STOC/FOCS take simple-nice-ideas papers? A one-element case study
WRITTEN AUG 1,2011: It has been said that simple innovative ideas to not get into STOC/FOCS and only hard technical improvements do. This is one of the motivations...
From Schneier on Security
Using Science Fiction to Teach Computer Security
Interesting paper: "Science Fiction Prototyping and Security Education: Cultivating Contextual and Societal Thinking in Computer Security Education and Beyond,"...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 1 August 2011
Last week was incredible at the US Innovative Education Forum. I
From The Noisy Channel
Upcoming Information Retrieval Conferences
I hope everyone who attended the recent SIGIR 2011 in Beijing had an excellent experience. I didn’t manage to make it to that side of the globe myself, but I’m...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neural Prosthetics
Good piece on neural prosthetics, prompted by military injuries, considerable progress is being made.
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Hubble and Enterprise Planning
I have been reading Eric J Chaisson's Book: The Hubble Wars, a detailed view of the launch and operation of the Hubble Space Telescope. My background is in astrophysics...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Maps Changing the Look of Data
in GigaOm. Good example of using Google maps based mashups to visualize data. I have seen a number of good examples of this. Simple representations.
From The Eponymous Pickle