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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
HEADWATER: NSA Exploit of the Day
Today's implant from the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) group implant catalog: HEADWATER (TS//SI//REL) HEADWATER is a Persistent Backdoor (PDB) software...
From Computational Complexity
A short History of Crypto
I taught a 3-week summer course to High School Students called Computer Science: A Hands Off Approach which did some theory. One thing I did was the following...
From My Biased Coin
Andreessen Tweets
My brother pointed me to this article on a great exchange of tweets about the origins of Netscape. The two highlights, for me at least. First, Andreessen expressed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
MIT Comp Sci Prof Explains Quantum Computing
A relatively non technical article in the WSJ on the state of Quantum computing, An interview about what it is, what it might be good for, and where it may be going...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Convincing People that Smartphone Shopping is Safe
Recent events have made this more difficult, but the solutions and behavior needed are still there. What is the particular nature of the Smartphone that makesConvincing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Growing Scope of the Internet of Things
Gartner says it will grow 30 time to 26 billion by 2020. My guess that it will grow even larger, as more devices, some that we were not expecting, come online...
From Schneier on Security
Debunking the "NSA Mass Surveillance Could Have Stopped 9/11" Myth
It's something that we're hearing a lot, both from NSA Director General Keith Alexander and others: the NSA's mass surveillance programs could have stopped 9/11...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teachers and Role Models in CS Education
There was an interesting bit of chatting going on over Twitter about the importance of teachers as role models over the weekend. A lot of people think that having...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gardeners vs Architects
In Innovation Excellence: A kind of designer vs analytics argument that is interesting. We dealt with this when we added a design function. But like in this...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Teaching Functional Programming With A Chicken That Crosses the Road
I'm currently teaching a third year course on programming paradigms. For functional programming we look at Scheme, and for logic programming, Prolog. I took this...
From Schneier on Security
SOUFFLETROUGH: NSA Exploit of the Day
One of the top secret NSA documents published by Der Spiegel is a 50-page catalog of "implants" from the NSA's Tailored Access Group. Because the individual implants...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
So What Now?
The Hour of Code was a great success and you may have had more interest than ever before in computer science, but what do you do with all that momentum? How do...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Her - The Movie Influences User Interface
Back when I was giving talks at our innovation centers, the most frequently mentioned media was the move 'Minority Report'. Then just out and portraying an advertising...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visualizing Unstructured Data
Good overview of the topic. Examples like 'word clouds' are typical. And semantic nets that we used to represent the interaction between terms. Concept maps...
From The Eponymous Pickle
WiFi in the Internet of Things
In Ara Technica: Fairly obvious that many things will be connected wirelessly. A home or business is an aggregation of things that need to be connected to joint...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of January 13
January 14 Hearing: The Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on the scope of copyright...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Keyboard for Wearable Computing
Just brought to my attention by Lars Asplund: SenseBoard" ... The New Technology that can give you a Virtual keyboard, a mouse, or a gesture sensitive device to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Power of Networks
Crucially its about how to set up, evolve and utilize our networks."The Power of NetworksWhat can a network learn that an individual cannot?By MIT Technology Review...
From Schneier on Security
How the NSA Threatens National Security
Secret NSA eavesdropping is still in the news. Details about once secret programs continue to leak. The Director of National Intelligence has recently declassified...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson