From Schneier on Security
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration
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B. Schneier| February 29, 2024
Belching cars made of skin and bones, nuclear-powered trains in the shape of mountains and arrow-like formations of joined recumbent bicycles are just some of the...Experientia From Putting People First | May 1, 2013 at 09:11 AM
The UK’s Behavioural Insights Team – known as the “nudge unit” – will join with a commercial partner and become the first policy unit to be spun out of Whitehall...Experientia From Putting People First | May 1, 2013 at 08:54 AM
We examined kiosks for retail. It is surprising the number of alterations that have to be made to deliver a secure and easily usable kiosk based on a PC or laptop...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | May 1, 2013 at 04:41 AM
Twenty years ago today (April 30, 2013), physicists at CERN opened the World Wide Web to everyone with a simple web page. The actual page is long gone, but CERN...Ann Drobnis From The Computing Community Consortium Blog | May 1, 2013 at 03:43 AM
Back in the 80s we were waiting, and expecting the emergence of Strong AI. Generalized intelligent machines, that would be as intelligent as a human, and do things...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | May 1, 2013 at 01:27 AM
Kenneth Appel, of Appel-Haken Four Color Theorem Fame, died recently. See here for an obit.
In 1972 I read that the four-color theorem was an open problem.here...GASARCH From Computational Complexity | May 1, 2013 at 01:20 AM
CERN published the first Web site twenty years ago. Seems like a much longer time ago. CWorld reports on the event. Consider how much it has changed how we work...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | April 30, 2013 at 11:44 PM
According to the Harvard Business Review and reported in the New York Times data science is "the sexiest job in the 21st century." Experts expect that this hot... From Computer Science Teachers Association | April 30, 2013 at 11:39 PM
Reblogged from Meshed Insights & Knowledge: Earlier today Sonatype released the results of their annual survey. The survey looks at the extent to which developers...Simon Phipps From Wild WebMink | April 30, 2013 at 06:52 PM
I've already written about the guy who got a new trial because a virus ate his court records. Here's someone who will have to redo his thesis research because...schneier From Schneier on Security | April 30, 2013 at 06:29 PM
This sounds much like what we tried to do when building simulation systems with agent models. But it seems different when I read the abstract. Once you have found...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | April 30, 2013 at 04:48 PM
Digital books are software. The more interactive the experience, the more complex that software is to develop – and the greater the risk of creating a digital product...Experientia From Putting People First | April 30, 2013 at 04:47 PM
Article published in the April 2013 issue of the International Journal of Design By Dan Lockton, David J. Harrison, Rebecca Cain, Neville A. Stanton, & Paul Jennings...Experientia From Putting People First | April 30, 2013 at 04:30 PM
A repository of free course ware on the topic, now in Beta. Supported by IBM and others. As they say, at your place and pace. Many courses now available. Other...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | April 30, 2013 at 03:49 PM
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
It is hard to resist a new technology toy. I’ve been hearing about the Raspberry Pi computer for some time now. A couple of weeks ago I talked to a teacher friend ...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | April 30, 2013 at 02:10 PM
Recently, I happened to start looking at some of the stories featured on the new Lean In website and came across Marissa Mayer's. For all the interest and controversy...Gail Carmichael From The Female Perspective of Computer Science | April 30, 2013 at 02:09 PM
Turns out there's a lot of vulnerable systems out there:
Many of the two terabytes (2,000 gigabytes) worth of replies Moore received from 310 million IPs indicated...schneier From Schneier on Security | April 30, 2013 at 11:11 AM
Mark Busse calls on the design industry to set a higher standard (and as a company which has always paid its interns, we endorse this call): ” Employers, especially...Experientia From Putting People First | April 30, 2013 at 08:29 AM
I was just informed of this online broadcast, done twice today, 4/30. I plan to attend and tweet.Follow with hashtags #bigdatamgmt and #ibmsmb .... " ... Today...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | April 30, 2013 at 04:28 AM
A good NYT article which explains this concept which I had heard of, but not understood. How a number of companies are beginning to use it: " ... “Every so often...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | April 30, 2013 at 01:56 AM