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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
Project C-43: A Final Piece of Public-Key Cryptography History
This finally explains what John Ellis was talking about in "The Possibility of Non-Secret Encryption" when he dropped a tantalizing hint about wartime work at Bell...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Takes IT Work from India
Via my UK consultant, in the India Times. P&G aims to cut down outsourced IT work in India. A surprise which is making Indian vendors nervous.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Strategy's Tough Choices
Came late to my inbox. In the HBR's blog in late May. Former and current P&G's CEO AG Lafley on Strategy's Tough Choices. A video.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computing Community Consortium Announces New Council Members and Executive Committee
The Computing Research Association (CRA), in consultation with the National Science Foundation (NSF), has appointed five new members to the Computing Community...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fracturing of Corporate IT
In CIO Insight: Different and becoming more so. Not going away, as some say, standards and security still need to exist. But the nature of enterprise IT is changing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Visualization Startup
First I had heard of this. A simple to use solution by former Facebook employees. Probably for everyday visual data solutions. See Polychart.
From Schneier on Security
Blowback from the NSA Surveillance
There's one piece of blowback that isn't being discussed -- aside from the fact that Snowden killed the chances of a liberal arts major getting a job at the DoD...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 17 June 2013
First Monday of “summer vacation” and my grading is done and have been submitted. You know what that means! Yep, working on my lesson plans for August. Two brand...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Networked Things
A good overview of the current state of the network of things. Which points back to our own experiments with networked refrigerators, in that nexus of the modern...
From CERIAS Blog
Opticks and a Treatise on the PRISM Surveillance Program (Guest Blog)
By Mark Rasch† and Sophia Hannah‡ Last post, we wrote about the NSA‟s secret program to obtain and then analyze the telephone metadata relating to foreign espionage...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Failure of Design Thinking
In Innovation Excellence: Interesting thoughts on the failure of design thinking. A little muddled, but I do think there must be a stronger combination of business...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Uncomfortable CEO
Former colleague José Ignacio Sordo Galarza has a new site: The Uncomfortable CEO. I will follow with more about his new book mentioned: " ... Exceptional CEOs...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Happy Father’s Day
And the mother who gave it to us Sonora Dodd is widely credited with the creation of Father’s Day. The first one was organized by her in Spokane, Washington in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deep Learning with Neural Nets
In CACM: Deep learning finally comes of age. Still a bit skeptical about what deep really means here. I need it it be useful. We used neural nets extensively...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Glass to Create Huge Data?
Via Gib Bassett: Will Glass make Big Data into Huge Data? Yes, definitely if it becomes popular, and something like it will, we will be collecting increasing amounts...
From CERIAS Blog
Schrodinger’s Catnip: A Review of the NSA Phone Surveillance Program (Guest Blog)
By Mark Rasch† and Sophia Hannah‡ The NSA programs to retrieve and analyze telephone metadata and internet communications and files (the former we will call the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Monetizing Mobile
In the midst if a mobile application. But the value will be in efficiency, connectivity and supporting decisions from anywhere. Not advertising dollars from consumers...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
The Mathematics Of Dieting
Yes there are math issues in this activity William Banting may have created the first very popular diet. In 1863 he published the Letter on Corpulence, Addressed...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
AP CS Principles Course Moves One Step Closer
This morning the College Board announced that the National Science Foundation has committed $5.2 million in funding to support the continued development of theBroadening...
From Schneier on Security