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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 Daniel Lemire's Blog
Do we need patents?
Whenever I suggest that patents are harmful, people point to the pharmaceutical industry. The pharmaceutical industry is heavily regulated. Marketing a new drug...
From Schneier on Security
Time to Patch Your HP Printers
It's a serious vulnerability. Note that this is the research that was mistakenly reported as allowing hackers to set your printer on fire. Here's a list of all...
From Wild WebMink
MPL v2 As A Force For Unity
Mozilla released a new version of the Mozilla Public License this week. I think it’s a very positive development for open source globally – read why over on ComputerWorldUK...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Kinect for FRC 2012
Tomorrow is the official kickoff for the FIRST Robotics Competition. One of the things that means is that today is a day of workshops at FIRST Place in Manchester...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Planning for Big Data
Good overview. Yes, as the article says, Big data is more than just about analytics. But I believe that everything has an analytical element. In most cases that...
From Computational Complexity
Starting the Year with Turing
This week I was in Boston for the Joint Math Meeting, a combined meeting of the AMS, MAA and a couple of other three-letter math societies with 7000 of my closest...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF to Hold Webinar on Smart Health & Wellbeing Program
As we’ve previously reported
From Schneier on Security
Improving the Security of Four-Digit PINs on Cell Phones
The author of this article notices that it's often easy to guess a cell phone PIN because of smudge marks on the screen. Those smudge marks indicate the four PIN...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Semantic Rules for Determining Social Interests
In ReadwriteWeb. Google acquires IBM technology that determines personal social interests. Even a flow chart is included. I took a look at a similar idea that...
From Wild WebMink
Ask the US President to veto SOPA and PIPA
I know from the statistics that many of the people who read this are in the USA. Apologies to everyone else, but I’d like to ask all my US readers to take a look...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AlixPartners
I was recently introduced to AlixPartners, a group that uses analytical and executive expertise to solves business problems. " ... Our service expertise reaches...
From Schneier on Security
Liars and Outliers News
The Liars and Outliers webpage is live. On it you can find links to order both paper and e-book copies from a variety of online retailers, and signed copies directly...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Computer Scientist Appears on America's Got Talent
Inaccurate stereotypes about what computer scientists look and act like abound. Our students see them in popular media and hear about them from friends and family...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predictive Trade Planning in the Cloud
Press Release:Unilever Selects DemandTec for Predictive Trade Planning in the Cloud Global consumer goods leader drives more effective retail trade plans with...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CS & IT 2012
Back in the end of November I posted the call for proposals for the 12th Annual Computer Science & Information Technology Conference. Did you see it? Have you been...
From Schneier on Security
Newly Released Papers from NSA Journals
The papers are old, but they have just been released under FOIA.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Analytic Metrics
A simple view of Google Analytics metrics. Useful guide, especially for beginners in Web analytic methods.
From The Eponymous Pickle
People Centric Sensing
The rise of people-centric sensing. Another example of how data gathering is increasing. " ... Technological advances in sensing, computation, storage, and communications...
From Wild WebMink