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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 Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computing for Disaster Management Visioning
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC), together with the National Science Foundation (NSF), is co-sponsoring a limited-participation visioning workshop on computing...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Do we need copyright?
The concept of property is a social construction. Animals, such as cats, can own a piece of food, or a territory, but only as long as they are able to personally...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fizzback Customer Feedback Channel
Eurostar experiments with Customer Feedback"When considering their options, Haynes and his team trialled a system from Fizzback, a UK start-up that was acquired...
From Schneier on Security
Can the NSA Break AES?
In an excellent article in Wired, James Bamford talks about the NSA's codebreaking capability. According to another top official also involved with the program...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
The DARPA Challenge That Didn
Earlier this month, we highlighted the
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Analytics Roadmap
From AnalyticsBridge: An interesting paper that addresses the process. Somewhat overplayed in my opinion, but it is worth a look for alternatives to design...
From Schneier on Security
Another Liars and Outliers Excerpt
IT World published an excerpt from Chapter 4.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tide Thefts Rampant
This saw considerable press a few weeks ago. The P&G detergent Tide being used as a 'currency' for criminals. And becoming the object of theft. Not because...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Preventing Support Agent Burnout
Using game dynamics to prevent support agent burnout. A reasonable area of application since it includes tiresome tasks, but is it reasonably scalable?
From Putting People First
Futurescapes
FutureScapes, an open collaboration project by Sony and Forum for the Future, aims to bring together a range of expert thinkers, designers, futurologists, writers...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Agencies Seek White Papers, Announce Cybersecurity Symposium
Earlier this month, the National Coordination Office (NCO) for the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program — the Federal...
From Putting People First
Helsinki Street Eats: a book about everyday food
Helsinki Street Eats: a book about everyday food By Bryan Boyer and Dan Hill, with contributions from Ville Tikka, Nuppu G
From Schneier on Security
Unprinter
A way to securely erase paper: "The key idea was to find a laser energy level that is high enough to ablate - or vaporise - the toner that at the same time isNew...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The Best and Most Innovative Teachers
Being somewhat opinionated about the subject (who am I kidding
From Wild WebMink
7 Google+ Tips
I’ve expanded my earlier posting about Google+ and you’ll find not five but
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unilever Launches Innovation Online Program
From Consumer Goods Technology: " ... Unilever's Open Innovation team launched a new online platform, which offers experts the opportunity to help the company...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Legal Tangles in the Cloud
Additional Cloud risks. The danger of legal actions in the Cloud. A recent example shows the danger.
From Computational Complexity
Heading South
Starting in July, I'll be chair of the School of Computer Science in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech. Annie Ant
From Computer Science Teachers Association