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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
What Anti-Trafficking Advocates Can Learn from Sex Workers: The Dynamics of Choice, Circumstance, and Coercion
For the last year, I’ve been trying to get my head around different aspects of human trafficking and the commercial sexual exploitation of minors. I’ve been meeting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data and Optimal Pricing
From TDWI: Optimal pricing is a classical problem, used in retail in some form since the 1960s. Having more data can make it more accurate and useful.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Product Linkage with a Social Game
A kind of linkage we explored as far back as the introduction of SimCity. Now Johnson & Johnson links products with The Sims. A good example of product - game...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Expert Press
Just brought to my attention. The Business Expert Press. Which publishes short, inexpensive, practical and accessible books on key business topics. In E-book...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Passive Quality Recruiting Networks
This GigaOM piece made me think more broadly about how social networks can be passively recruited. It used to be that it was always better to get more about you...
From Schneier on Security
Sexual Harassment at DefCon (and Other Hacker Cons)
Excellent blog post by Valerie Aurora about sexual harassment at the DefCon hackers conference. Aside from the fact that this is utterly reprehensible behavior...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computer Science Course Now Online at the Khan Academy
Last month at the Computing Research Association’s (CRA) biennial Snowbird Conference, a session titled “Reflections on Teaching Massive Online Open Courses” featured...
From Schneier on Security
Liars and Outliers on Special Discount
Liars and Outliers has been out since late February, and while it's selling great, I'd like it to sell better. So I have a special offer for my regular readers...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Try Kinect at your K-12 School
Capturing students' interest...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Khan Academy Computer Science
The much talked about Kahn Academy now has a Computer Science Curriculum. With code examples: " ... All of the code in the Khan Academy Computer Science platform...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Alan Turing Deserves More Attention From the General Public
Alan Turing was an incredibly important mind from the the twentieth century. Most computer scientists would recognize his name, but I think more of the general...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Digital Games
Lots of statistics from the Google blog about searches and other artifacts and commercial interest indications that have to do with the Olympics. Creative stats...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
The Speed of Communication
Fifty years of acceleration src Kurt Gödel has been keeping a low profile recently. It’s not in his nature to distract from all of the celebrations of Alan Turing...
From Putting People First
Care at a Distance : On the Closeness of Technology
Care at a Distance : On the Closeness of Technology By Jeannette Pols Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam 2012, 204 pages This widely researched study demonstrates...
From Putting People First
Touch in cars is still too complicated
It is not a secret that touch is not as easy as it seems and very difficult to get right, writes Wolfgang Gruener on Conceivable Tech. Cadillac is the first company...
From Schneier on Security
Schneier in the News
Here are links to three news articles about me, and two video interviews with me.
From Computational Complexity
Book Review Column (a bit late)
I try to post my book review column when it comes out but I am behind on that. This is the one that came out a few months ago. The column is here though I have...
From My Biased Coin
Mail Issue
Last week I had an issue where I sent an e-mail to someone (non-work-related), and a while later got the response forwarded to me from my wife, with a note that...
From Schneier on Security
Measuring Cooperation and Defection using Shipwreck Data
In Liars and Outliers, I talk a lot about social norms and when people follow them. This research uses survival data from shipwrecks to measure it. The authors...
From The Eponymous Pickle