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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
Fighting Terrorism with Cupcakes
MI6 hacked into an online al-Qaeda magazine and replaced bomb-making instructions with a cupcake recipe. It's a more polite hack than subtly altering the recipe...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Precise Language: It's All Relative
The term "precise language" has come up twice in the past few weeks in way that highlight the difference between computer science people and other people. (I wouldn't...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What is next in Windows 8
In what appears to be a fairly radical change, Windows 8 will be looking very different than Windows 7. I am thinking of moving to a new vendor's OS during my next...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple Provides Free Cloud
Announced by Apple today: iCloud will compete with and likely severely hurt vendors that have as part of their services file synchronization. Watch this carefully...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Products Should Communicate Effectively
From the Harvard Blogs: Yes, designed well and communicate to their context transparently. " ... Obviously there are many dimensions of communication, but as...
From Geeking with Greg
Eli Pariser is wrong
In recent interviews and in his new book, "The Filter Bubble", Eli Pariser claims that personalization limits serendipity and discovery.For example, in one interview...
From Geeking with Greg
Continuous profiling at Google
"Google-Wide Profiling: A Continuous Profiling Infrastructure for Data Centers" (PDF) has some fascinating details on how Google does profiling and looks for performance...
From Computational Complexity
A Valiant Weekend
In my role as SIGACT chair, I got to attend the ACM Awards Banquet held at the beginning of FCRC in San Jose. I shared a table with Mitzenmacher who posted on the...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
In Testimony, CISE AD Describes Research Contributions
Farnam Jahanian, the Assistant Director for CISE, testified at a U.S. House of Representatives hearing on May 25th. The hearing, convened jointly by the Subcommittee...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Offers Cheaper City in a Box
Had to smile at this one. IBM has been pushing their Smarter City idea heavily in ads. Cities are in trouble financially today with the rest of government. So...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Why I still program
People expect that, as you grow older, you give up practical jobs such as programming for more noble tasks such as managing a team and acquiring funding. This especially...
From Wild WebMink
? Ending Division
LibreOffice Conference, Paris, 12th-15th October, 2011 The LibreOffice community is organising a conference. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if all the various strands...
From Schneier on Security
Analysis of Redaction Failures
Redaction failures are so common that I stopped blogging about them years ago. This is the first analysis I have seen of technical redaction failures. And here's...
From Putting People First
The future of money in a webbed-up world
Digital cash and online markets have the potential to loosen governments
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links Post
Last week I celebrated eight years at Microsoft. I still miss the students which makes the guest talks I do in schools particularly valuable to me. Interestingly...
From The Noisy Channel
Winning the War for Software Engineering Talent
The war for talent. It’s the latest metaphor for the challenge that tech companies face as excitement is building in Silicon Valley again. Well, not really — McKinsey...
From My Biased Coin
Harvard CS Hires (2011 Edition)
At FCRC, I'm getting asked a lot about hiring. Our hiring season still isn't quite yet finished, but I'm going to go ahead and announce three new faculty who will...
From The Eponymous Pickle
American Library Association Abstracts
Here the abstracts of the poster sessions from the American Library Association's recent meeting. Having dabbled in library science and its reaction to changes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Games in Employee Recruitment
WSJ Piece includes a good example of how the enterprise is using gamification. I have seen similar examples in retail training: " ... While it's not clear ifMarriott...
From The Eponymous Pickle