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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
HCIR 2012: Call for Participation
Human-computer Information Retrieval (HCIR) combines research from the fields of human-computer interaction (HCI) and information retrieval (IR), placing an emphasis...
From Computational Complexity
Theory Jobs 2012
The theoretical computer science job market has mostly settled so time for the annual spring jobs posts. I set up a Google Spreadsheet that everyone can edit so...
From Schneier on Security
Backdoor Found in Chinese-Made Military Silicon Chips
We all knew this was possible, but researchers have found the exploit in the wild: Claims were made by the intelligence agencies around the world, from MI5, NSA...
From Schneier on Security
Interview with a Safecracker
The legal kind. It's interesting: Q: How realistic are movies that show people breaking into vaults? A: Not very! In the movies it takes five minutes of razzle...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 29 May 2012
Links are a day late because of the Memorial Day holiday. A day of remembrance. I spent a little time with my father, a combat veteran of World War II which was...
From Putting People First
The right to be forgotten
Dr Paul Bernal, a lecturer in information technology, intellectual property and media law at the University of East Anglia (UK), provides clarification on what...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Lauren Ipsum: Bringing Computer Science to Everyone
Have you ever heard of Userland? It's where you buy things with truly fair coins, deal in algorithms, and try to outwit logicians to gain access to the town ofLauren...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Petabytes and PetaFlops
In ComputerWorld: Word of new examples really big data, and at the same time using really fast computers to examine that data at the NCSA. New challenges are emerging...
From Putting People First
Experientia concept video for a sustainable trade fair centre
The Event project for Kortrijk Xpo, Belgium, developed concepts for how to make trade fairs and temporary events more sustainable. Experientia
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predictive Analytics and Medicaid Fraud
A good example of using predictive analytics with medical data. Here with billing data: " ... "The beauty of this system is that it recognizes patterns of billing...
From Schneier on Security
My Last Post About Ethnic Profiling at Airports
Remember my rebuttal of Sam Harris's essay advocating the profiling of Muslims at airports? That wasn't the end of it. Harris and I conducted a back-and-forth...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Turn any Wall into a Touchscreen
Gestural Surfaces. A look at the Ubi Interactive use of Microsoft Kinect for touchscreen construction. Are we ready for the broader applications of gestures in...
From Wild WebMink
Contrasts in Amsterdam
Reblogged from The Global Mink: Nesting, a photo by webmink on Flickr. I spent a half-day walking around the centre of Amsterdam following a speaking engagement...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Finance from Wolfram
And a finance platform from Wolfram Research. Perhaps an unlikely connection but the possibilities are good. I like the process-workflow connection; " .....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simplicity Isn't Simple
Isn't it? An interview with Apple design chief. " ... "Designing and developing anything of consequence is incredibly challenging," says Ive. "Our goal is to...
From My Biased Coin
CS 124 -- Some Student Comments
Overall, I feel I've had a very successful year, but I do have to admit: my undergraduate class, CS 124, could have been better this spring. I wasn't prepared...
From Wild WebMink
Open Source Market Matures
My article for InfoWorld this week considers the annual Open Source Survey, unveiled at OSBC in San Francisco, and observes that the market is trending towards...
From The Eponymous Pickle