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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
Security Theater on the Wells Fargo Website
Click on the "Establishing secure connection" link at the top of this page. It's a Wells Fargo page that displays a progress bar with a bunch of security phrases...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Client Composite Background
A document that contains links to a number of blog posts that represent my major work and client relationships. Still in draft, but provides a good starting point...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
2012 ACM Turing Award Recipients Announced
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has announced Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers, Shafi Goldwasser and Silvio Micali, are recipients...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Team Smartphone Use Soars
Useful PEW statistics about Teen smartphone use. Again the expectation that the future will be mobile, local and very personal. We need to be ready for that.
From Putting People First
Design and public services
Design and Public Services is the second publication in the UK Design Commission‘s ‘Restarting Britain’ series. The first set out the strategic importance of design...
From Putting People First
methods@manchester: research methods in the social sciences
methods@manchester is a website created by the University of Manchester to highlight and explain research methods in the social sciences. Many sections come with...
From Putting People First
No to NoUI
‘The best design is invisible’ is the interaction design phrase of the moment. Design and technology will ‘disappear’, become ‘invisible’, and the ‘best interface...
From Putting People First
Will mobile education arrive in the developing world
(As if it hasn’t already). In developing countries, where smartphones and dependable cellular networks are still scarce, it’s been difficult to gauge the real impact...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Body Imaging: Poikos
Stan Dyck sends along a link to Poikos, " ... Poikos means 3D body measurement, on any device, in seconds. Thanks for dropping by. After a successful closed beta...
From Computational Complexity
Turing Award to Shafi and Silvio
The 2012 ACM Turing Award, the highest honor in computer science, will be given to MIT cryptographers Shafi Goldwasser and Silvio Micali. From the press release...
From Apophenia
thank you SXSW
Last night, I was inducted into the SXSW-Interactive Hall of Fame in a whirlwind awards ceremony. I only had a flash of a moment to reflect so I want to take a...
From Schneier on Security
Hacking Best-seller Lists
It turns out that you can buy a position for your book on best-seller lists.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Lecturing or Conversing
I was reading one of those articles about Bill Gates talking about education again. I should stop that. The man is a genius in many areas but education is not one...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Consumers Want More Information
In POPAI: Also a discussion of standards, which ultimately gets you to comparable information. Accessing an extended package, like using a barcode reader, or image...
From Computational Complexity
What if they gave an exam and nobody came?
A professor tells the class that he will use the highest grade to set the curve. The students all conspire to NOT take the exam, so the highest score is 0, so they...
From Schneier on Security
Cisco IP Phone Hack
Nice work: All current Cisco IP phones, including the ones seen on desks in the White House and aboard Air Force One, have a vulnerability that allows hackers...
From My Biased Coin
A Second Life for our Groupon Paper
Groupon has been in the news lately -- something about their CEO leaving, I hear. And Giorgos Zervas has been out giving talks. (He's a great speaker. You should...
From My Biased Coin
The Press
Harvard's name, obviously, still sells newspapers. The "e-mailgate" scandal of the past few days has been appearing everywhere. I was contacted multiple times...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF CISE Directorate Launches Search Committee for CCF Division Director
The following was submitted by Farnam Jahanian, NSF Assistant Director for CISE. Dear Colleagues, CISE is pleased to announce the formation of a search committee...
From The Eponymous Pickle