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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
New RC4 Attack
This is a really clever attack on the RC4 encryption algorithm as used in TLS. We have found a new attack against TLS that allows an attacker to recover a limited...
From Putting People First
Debate in Milan: The Long View of Interaction Design
The people behind the upcoming Interaction14 conference invite you to attend a panel discussion in Milan on the “Long View of Interaction Design”. On Monday 8 April...
From Putting People First
The next Big UI Idea: gadgets that adapt to your skill
As gadgets get more complicated, UI’s must be able to teach their users over time. Philip Battin shows how flow can be used to improve the user experience in interactive...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Happy 100th Birthday, Paul Erdős
Fixing our own Erdős discrepancy By permission of Fan Chung Graham, artist. Paul Erdős—Erdős Pál in Hungarian—would have been 100 this past Tuesday. He was a force...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
The National Science Foundation Launches Two Supercomputers
This week, the National Science Foundation launched two new supercomputers. Here’s what Farnam Jahanian, head of NSF’s Directorate for Computer and Information...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Outsourcing Delivery
Not a new idea. Delivery is expensive, yet there are many people who would welcome the ability t deliver items in their spare time for a small patment. Here,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Aimia Helping Kellogg for Loyalty Data
Aimia, mentioned here previously working with Kellogg. Interesting in particular because it is a work with a CPG manufacturer rather than a retailer: " ......
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile Employees Driving Cloud
Makes sense. Which also increases the need to make sure that the connections are secure and reliable.
From Computational Complexity
Counting Descriptions- a ``new'' complexity class
Let nσ(w) is the number of σ's in w. We often ask our students about languages like { w | na(w) = 2nb(w) } (CFL but not REG). Lets formally define languages that...
From Schneier on Security
Unwitting Drug Smugglers
This is a story about a physicist who got taken in by an imaginary Internet girlfriend and ended up being arrested in Argentina for drug smuggling. Readers of...
From Putting People First
Is Open Government working?
In an insightful blog post, Reboot principal Panthea Lee asks if open government initiatives make citizens more informed and engaged, and make governments more...
From Putting People First
What can ethnography bring to the study of deliberative democracy?
Open government initiatives offer new, often technologically enabled avenues for civic participation. But which populations have the access and motivation to use...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tyranny of Things
In GigaOM: This reminds me of how our devices and software have started to control us. Smartphonesvibrating and a sales forecast changing what we do next. Algorithms...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Silicon Valley Running out of Innovation
Says Alan Kay, who we met a number of times at Xerox PARC in the day. We used his Smalltalk and Logo languages for AI projects. We respected his thoughts about...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Thinking Through the Forecast
I just caught this article in the Insiders Group blog and thought I would comment about our demand forecasting experiences and how they can be applied to the midsize...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Science Magazine on Computer Science careers
In two articles in Science – the flagship publication of the American Association for the Advancement of Science – CCC Chair Ed Lazowska is interviewed on career...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Optimizing On-Shelf Availability
Another example, in Progressive Grocer, of how Wal-Mart is active in analytical methods. " ... A new service from Plano, Texas-based sales and marketing services...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data Disaster, Get the Data Right.
Stephen Few on the problems with too much analytics before you get the data right. Getting the data right. And visualizing it to make sure you understand it ....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Super Bowl Neuromarketing Study
Neurorelay summarizes the yearly Sands Research Super Bowl advertisement study. Well done overview of method and results. A few years ago I had a chance to statistically...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson