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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 Wild WebMink
? BCS Members: Vote Now
If you’re a BCS Member or Fellow you’ve received a voting pack in the mail that needs your attention. Please vote this weekend so that there’s no risk of missing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visual Experience Management
From Saffron. Intriguing linkage of associative memory and visualization. Will examine it more closely."
From My Biased Coin
Fly-By Conferences (ISIT edition)
I'm writing this from ISIT (Int'l Symposium on Inf. Theory) in Austin. In fact, I'm sitting in on the session on for "Coding for Memories", a topic I did someweb...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Watson: The Next Ken Jennings?
Ken Jennings, the man known for his record-breaking streak of 74 consecutive
From Schneier on Security
Hot Dog Security
A nice dose of risk reality: Last week, the American Academy of Pediatrics issued a statement calling for large-type warning labels on the foods that kids most...
From Computational Complexity
Alternative Careers for Logicians
(Will post on Complexity next week. I am waiting until the invited talks have their slides online so that I can point to them.) Lets say you just got a PhDacademic...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Indoor use of Augmented Reality
From a Junaio press release, a good example:"Indoor Usage of junaio
From The Eponymous Pickle
DePaul Program in Predictive Analytics
First of its kind program in the US. Useful to see this kind of thing happening, and I hope it is linked strongly to MBA programs there and elsewhere
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-06-17
UK keeps three times as many patents secret as the US Not only is the patent system broken (it has forgotten to protect the public good in return for granting a...
From Schneier on Security
Patrolling the U.S./Canada Border
Doesn't the DHS have anything else to do? As someone who believes that our nation has a right to enforce its borders, I should have been gratified when the Immigrations...
From Apophenia
Four Essays Addressing Risky Behaviors and Online Safety
At Harvard’s Berkman Center, John Palfrey, Urs Gasser, and I have been co-directing the Youth and Media Policy Working Group Initiative to investigate the role...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Scholar Blog
Google Scholar, which we found useful in the enterprise a few times, has added a blog which details recent changes. Including the ability to set alerts for new...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
PCAST Seeks Advice on Critical Infrastructures for Technology Innovation
The President's Innovation and Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) is seeking public input on infrastructures that are critical to innovation in information technology...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
A Show About Computer Programming
One of the things that comes up in conversation when ever getting more students, especially women, interested in computer science comes up is that we need a TV...
From Schneier on Security