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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 The Noisy Channel
RecSys 2012: Beyond Five Stars
I spent the past week in Dublin attending the 6th ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2012). This young conference has become the premier...
From Schneier on Security
Man-in-the-Middle Bank Fraud Attack
This sort of attack will become more common as banks require two-factor authentication: Tatanga checks the user account details including the number of accounts...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Agencies Announcing First Round of NRI Awards
The first round of awards for next-generation robotics R&D through the National Robotics Initiative (NRI) are being announced today, according to White House Office...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Protest Monitoring
I mentioned Recorded Future's monitoring analysis of the embassy attacks. Now they have followed with a thirty minute video that examines the approach. A good...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Transparent Mobile Computing
From CIO: The ability to have Apps run on multiple mobile platforms. From Intel: "... "With transparent computing, software developers no longer must choose...
From Wild WebMink
Software Patent Solution Under Our Noses
I was blown away by a paper by legal scholar Mark Lemley when I read it in full this week. He plausibly claims there’s a very simple and elegant solution to software...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Think Outside The Textbook
I was talking to a teacher, well chatting online via Facebook actually, and I described what he does as “thinking outside the textbook.” Speaking as someone who...
From Putting People First
The age of data sharing (report)
We live in an age of sharing. As consumers and online, we regularly share personal information, and generate new data through our browsing or purchasing history...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Connected Consumer
Correspondent Gib Bassett curates The Connected Consumer. Which contains a number of items about consumer packaged goods that I had missed. Worth checking out...
From The Eponymous Pickle
GS1 and VICS Merger
Via Kevin Judd of Fujitsu.Yesterday, September 10th 2012, GS1 US and the Voluntary Interindustry Commerce Solutions (VICS) Association announced that they haveThe ...
From Schneier on Security
Estimating the Probability of Another 9/11
This statistical research says once per decade: Abstract: Quantities with right-skewed distributions are ubiquitous in complex social systems, including political...
From Computational Complexity
Max Flow
A couple of weeks ago Suresh tweeted the following result of James Orlin Max flows in O(nm) time or better. jorlin.scripts.mit.edu/Max_flows_in_O… — Suresh Venkat...
From Geeking with Greg
Will tablets replace PCs?
I just bet Professor Daniel Lemire $100 that they won't. At least, any time soon. The specific terms of the bet are, "In some quarter of 2015, the unit salesWho...
From Apophenia
“Socially Mediated Publicness”: an open-access issue of JOBEM
I love being a scholar, but one thing that really depresses me about research is that so much of what scholars produce is rendered inaccessible to so many people...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Winning the Show Rooming War
Good post on the growing behavior of shoppers using the retail environment to see and touch products, but then buying them elsewhere or online. Good examplesGino...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future Intelligence with Recorded Future
An excellent case study of the use of Recorded Future for understanding the recent Middle East unrest and embassy attacks. A use of semantic analysis of multiple...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Launching a New Feature: Show Us Your “Research in Motion”!
Every week for the last several years, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) has showcased an interesting computing (or related) research project as a “Highlight...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Look at Educational Technology
An opinionated view. " ... Education is in some respects one of the most stagnant of all major industries. A farmer from 150 years ago would not comprehend a modern...
From Schneier on Security