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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
Security on the Internet of Things
In the Cisco Blog: (Which I have found to be very informative). Remember the hacked refrigerator." ... The SANS Institute just completed a survey on the security...
From Schneier on Security
NIGHTWATCH: NSA Exploit of the Day
Today's item from the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) group implant catalog: NIGHTWATCH (TS//SI//REL TO USA,FVEY) NIGHTWATCH is a portable computer with...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Adds Sources
Google adds sources to search results, via its Knowledge Graph. A suggestion in the piece suggests that a better solution would be a reliability score based on...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Accelerate Disruptive Innovation
Innovating faster. And focusing your innovation to value. Part of that task is to be able to evaluate innovations in context, as quickly and accurately as possible...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Glass for Firefighters
Several years ago I worked on a project meant to focus key data about operations to firefighters. A kind of augmented reality for a highly dynamic task. ...
From Computational Complexity
What will we wrought?
When I went to college in the early 80's, students protested against college endowments invested in companies that had business in apartheid South Africa. My mother...
From Schneier on Security
Consumer Manipulation
Tim Hartford talks about consumer manipulation: Consider, first, confusion by design: Las Vegas casinos are mazes, carefully crafted to draw players to the slot...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Role of Branding in the Product Life Cycle
Examining the curious role of brand in the product life cycle By James Richardson, Ph.D. on January 22nd, 2014 A new report debunks the notion that brand defines...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Current Trends in Visualization
In Computing Now: A snapshot of current trends in visualization. " ... For this issue of Computing Now, we gathered a set of articles that exemplifies current...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Want to win $1,000,000,000 (yes, that’s one billion dollars)?
All you have to do is create the PERFECT March Madness bracket. If you manage to do so, Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway will pay you $1,000,000,000, as reported...
From Schneier on Security
NIGHTSTAND: NSA Exploit of the Day
Today's device from the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) group implant catalog: NIGHTSTAND (TS//SI//REL) An active 802.11 wireless exploitation and injection...
From Schneier on Security
Refrigerator Sending Spam Messages?
Coming barely weeks after my essay on the security risks from embedded systems, the Proofpoint report of a span-sending refrigerator was just too good to be true...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Automobiles and Information Technology
In Knowledge@Wharton: After the home and office, the automobile is the next place to deal with data and decision. It will include many challenges ." ... TheIf...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Webinar on Solicitations
On Monday, January 27, 2014, the Division of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (ACI) in the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate at the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AcuPoll for Tracking Ideas and Decisions
Spoke last week to Jeff Goldstein of AcuPoll. We had used some of their in-conference technologies to understand how people decide. The also do online polling...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Anti-Social Networks
Applications of social networks to arbitrary graphs Tim Roughgarden is a faculty member at Stanford, with interests in modern algorithms—my term. So his research...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Following Through
I rarely read beginning of the year top ten or efficiency hints, but this is deserves a look. I am in the midst of several decision processes that need people...
From The Eponymous Pickle
An Anatomist of Crimes, Decisions
In the Penn Gazette. About an anatomist of crimes. Could we do something similar when we look at decisions? After Action Reviews are one approach we tested, but...
From Schneier on Security
Questioning the Efficacy of NSA's Bulk-Collection Programs
Two reports have recently been published questioning the efficacy of the NSA's bulk-collection programs. The first one is from the left-leaning New American Foundation...
From The Eponymous Pickle