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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 Eponymous Pickle
Electronic Laboratory Notebook Management
Rescentris just brought to my attention. We worked on Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN) systems that could be signed and witnessed some time ago. Most recently...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Aimia Loyalty Analytics
I have been following the Aimia group for a while now. More news. " ... Self Serve, a proprietary program through Sobeys' partnership with analytics firm Aimia...
From Schneier on Security
Forever-Day Bugs
That's a nice turn of phrase: Forever day is a play on "zero day," a phrase used to classify vulnerabilities that come under attack before the responsible manufacturer...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Plagiarism v. Learning
The SIGCSE mailing list has been having a very active discussion of plagiarism in computer science classes of late. These discussions seem to recur with disappointing...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition Finals Later This Month
Later this month, the best and brightest cyber defense students from 10 universities throughout the country will descend on San Antonio, TX, for the 8th annual...
From Schneier on Security
Outliers in Intelligence Analysis
From the CIA journal Studies in Intelligence: "Capturing the Potential of Outlier Ideas in the Intelligence Community." In war you will generally find that the...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Recipes for Making Improvements in K-12 CS
Yesterday I had the pleasure of meeting with Bill Mitchell, Director of the BCS Academy of Computing in the United Kingdom (UK). It was interesting to chat with...
From Wild WebMink
Virtual Choir 3
Eric Whitacre launched Virtual Choir 3, the composite performance of his choral work “Water Night”, to promote his new album of the same name (of which more later)...
From Putting People First
UX is the heart of any company. How do you make it top priority?
Wolff Olins
From Putting People First
People-powered health
People Powered Health is a programme from NESTA, the UK innovation charity, to support the design and delivery of innovative services for people that are living...
From Wild WebMink
The Lesson of the Pantheon Roof
Reblogged from The Global Mink: Pantheon Roof, a photo by webmink on Flickr. Probably the most amazing artefact of the ancient world I have seen, the Pantheon in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shopper Marketing
New book: Shopper Marketing: How to Increase Purchase Decisions at the Point of Sale, by Markus Stahlberg. On my list to read. Contains a chapterHerb Sorensen...
From CERIAS Blog
Keynote: Howard Schmidt (Keynote Summary)
Howard Schmidt, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Cyber Security, Office of the U.S. President Morning Keynote Address, April 4, 2012....
From CERIAS Blog
Security Fireside Chat (Summary)
Summary by Christine Task. The fireside chat was an open discussion among several important persons with very interesting positions in the security world. The...
From Schneier on Security
Hawley Channels His Inner Schneier
Kip Hawley wrote an essay for the Wall Street Journal on airport security. In it, he says so many sensible things that people have been forwarding it to me with...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visualizing Risk
A study in visualizing risk, from Forbes. Very complex dashboards of data are shown. This gets back to using the human visual system as a trend and outlier recognition...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Razor Innovation
In the HBR Blog. How consumer innovation for Gillette is moving to the far east. Matches some other speculation I have heard about how other innovation work...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of April 16
April 18 Markup: The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will review a bill to update the Federal Information Security Management Act. 10 a.m., 2154...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Multi-Agency Earth System Models (EaSM) Proposals Due
The National Science Foundation (NSF), through its cross-cutting Science, Engineering, and Education for Sustainability (SEES) initiative
From The Eponymous Pickle