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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 Apophenia
meandering thoughts on the NSA scandal
As an activist, a geek, and a privacy scholar, I’ve been watching the NSA scandal unfold with a mixture of curiosity, outrage, and skepticism. I don’t feel as though...
From The Eponymous Pickle
CIOs Promoting Gamification
An overplayed piece. Using game strategy can be useful for internal and externally facing capabilities. Consider it a deeper, more psychological part of the user...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart E-Commerce
Wal-Mart CEO predicts that their E-Commerce sales will be $10 Billion this year. Continued online surge from traditional retailing.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Combining Bio Sensor Tools
It makes sense to think of using multiple bio sensors and combining their capabilities, which is what these firms have done, worth a look. " ... Facial expression...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Comic
A squid comic about the importance of precise language in security warnings. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Comments on Data
In Google Blog: Commenting on how they deal with government information requests.
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Consumer Advocates and Industry Endorse Cellphone Unlocking Bill at House Judiciary Committee Hearing
A legislative proposal to allow consumers to unlock their cellphones garnered support from consumer advocates, wireless industry executives, and a coalition of...
From Schneier on Security
Audio Interview with Me
In this podcast interview, I talk about security, power, and the various things I have been thinking about recently.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Costco vs Amazon in Grocery
In BusinessWeek: " ... Amazon is expanding in the grocery business, which could create a headache for CEO Jeff Bezos' onetime mentor, Costco Wholesale CEO Jim...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Cameron Wilson -> Code.org
Cameron Wilson, long-time Director of Public Policy for ACM, has been given a special assignment for 12 months to work at Code.org as Chief Operating Officer and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Think Like a Consumer
In AdAge: Think less like an executive, more like a consumer. Agree, an executive is not your typical consumer. In the many innovation center tours I gave for...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Unboxing GoldieBlox
Way back when, I missed out on the Roominate Kickstarter campaign, and I regretted it afterwards. So when GoldieBlox was proposed, I jumped on it. Plus, $30 to...
From Schneier on Security
A Really Good Article on How Easy it Is to Crack Passwords
Ars Technica gave three experts a 16,000-entry encrypted password file, and asked them to break them. The winner got 90% of them, the loser 62% -- in a few hours...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Speaking Hello World – TouchDevelop
Regular readers know that I have been learning TouchDevelop in my spare time. I really hope to find some concentrated time over the summer to really dig in buthttp...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Psst—It’s The Definition
Definitions are extremely important src Shafi Goldwasser and Silvio Micali won the 2012 ACM Turing Award last March for their seminal work in cryptography. We are...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Multiple Prisms with Similar Purposes
The Prism system has been much in the news today, apparently a multiple dimension-ed data gathering and predictive analytics system, recently exposed as a government...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Senate Briefing on Accessible Information and Communication Technologies
Former U.S. Congressman Tony Coelho, who was the primary author and sponsor of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990, moderated a Senate briefing yesterday...
From Computational Complexity
Complexity Typecast
Lance: Welcome to another exciting typecast coming from sunny Stanford University. I'm with Bill at the 28th Conference on Computational Complexity. Hi Bill, IBill...
From The Eponymous Pickle
CG Execs Share Marketing Insights
From CGT: Mention of a number of interesting items including the use of Big Data. The meeting was named: " "Datatopia: From Big Data to Meaningful Customer...
From The Eponymous Pickle