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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 The Eponymous Pickle
Supply Network Design
Recently in SpingerLink, book on Supply Network Design, by Hoda Davarzani and Shabnam Rezapour. An initial look shows some useful parts.
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Biggest Squid Ever
It's an oil field: Brazil's state-run Petrobras confirmed Wednesday that oil fields recently discovered offshore contained 8.3 billion barrels of recoverable crude...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Real Price of Gas
In Carpe Diem, an examination of the real price of gasoline. Cheaper today in the US than in 1920. Market driven innovation works.
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
The Surprising Power of the Hive Mind
Have you ever heard of the alternate reality game I Love Bees? It was designed as a game to be played by a very large number of people who would form a collective...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Women in technology conferences and women's rights: The Disconnect
From The Eponymous Pickle
Will Touch Screens Kill the Keyboard?
I thought of just this point while traveling this week. I learned touch typing in High School. My phone lets me do lots of new styles of communicating. I would...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Need Help? I am Available.
Wanted to remind my readers that I am a consultant. I have over thirty years of experience with major companies and the US government. I have saved companies many...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predictors Group on Linkedin
The LinkedIn Groups Predictors group has opened: I am pleased to announce that, as the owner of this group, I have just switched us to an open discussion group....
From The Noisy Channel
No More Quora Invites
Over the past days, I have been inundated with requests for Quora invites. I realize that I brought this upon myself my making my blog the top hit on Google for...
From Schneier on Security
The Social Dynamics of Terror
Good essay: Nineteenth-century anarchists promoted what they called the "propaganda of the deed," that is, the use of violence as a symbolic action to make a larger...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
To IDE or Not To IDE
One of the controversial issues that keeps coming up in computer science education is the role of the IDE
From The Noisy Channel
Enabling Exploratory Search with Dhiti
Last August, I wrote “Exploring Nuggetize“, in which I described an interface that
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
President Signs COMPETES Reauthorization
On Tuesday President Obama signed into law the reauthorization of the America COMPETES Act. The bill continues (among other things) the increasing funding trend...
From The Eponymous Pickle
RFID Security Cube
In RFID Journal: Had thought these kinds of security applications makes sense, here is a recent example:Self-contained RFID Cube Helps Keep Out Foreign Material...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crowdsourcing Site
I was contacted to take a look at a fascinating site that helps you construct crowd sourced solutions.It is called Squad Help. It looks like it uses contests to...
From Schneier on Security
SMS of Death
This will be hard to fix: Using only Short Message Service (SMS) communications
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
So, you want to be a mad scientist?
Exceptional scientists are often a bit crazy: Kurt G
From Computational Complexity
The Enduring Legacy of the Turing Machine
Last Februrary Peter Wegner asked if I would be interested in writing an article for a series in ACM Ubiquity on "What is Computation?" Our expanding collaboration...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-01-06
WikiLeaks prompts internal federal crackdown As I recall this is exactly the auto-immune response Assange was seeking to cause… (tags: wikileaks assange, cia,)...
From The Eponymous Pickle