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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 Computational Complexity
The Digital Random Bit Generator
I started this month asking about the nature of randomness and how we generate it for our computers. Let me end the month talking about Intel's clever new digital...
From Schneier on Security
Another ATM Theft Tactic
This brazen tactic is from Malaysia. Robbers sabotage the machines, and then report the damage to the bank. When the banks send repair technicians to open and...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Pinpointing Anomalies in Complex Financial Data
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links Post 31 October 2011
Busy week last week. You may have read about my two days in Atlantic City (Kinect-ing at the NJSBA Annual Workshop). Real work. Enjoyable work but none the less...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links Post 31 October 2011
Busy week last week. You may have read about my two days in Atlantic City (Kinect-ing at the NJSBA Annual Workshop). Real work. Enjoyable work but none the less...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Breakthrough Innovations in Technology
Fairly well known. A good reminder of some hot areas. In particular the medical records area.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Royal Society Opens Archives
Just announced. " .... The Royal Society has today announced that its world-famous historical journal archive
From The Eponymous Pickle
SIRI vs Clippy
I remember taking a close look at Microsoft's Clippy assistant interface as a replacement for some kinds of software support. It actually did a fairly good job...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Decision Support
It is really all about decision support. Beyond that it is about decision process improvement. " ... We struggle with questions on supporting decisions, yetSome...
From Michael Nielsen
Open Access: A Short Summary
I wrote the following essay for one of my favourite online forums, Hacker News, which over the past few months has seen more and more discussion of the issue of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Strategic Planning Smothers Innovation
In Innovation Excellence: A well put caution, it can hamper innovation, but I think there is still value in using strategic planning as an infrastructure for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simulating the Brain
An interesting suggestion that IBM can now simulate 4.5% of the human brain. It is always dangerous to compare brains and computing machines. Still not a...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Executable English
Interacting with databases via English. Semantic interpretation of social media and execution:" .... It could become a next big thing after Twitter and Facebook...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pushing Your Wikipedia Location Information
A nice, simple idea. Push information based on your current location. A simple layer includes information contained in Wikipedia: New Wikipedia Layer on Geoloqi...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Facebook
Facebook has announced a new installment of its
From The Eponymous Pickle
World Changing Games HQ
I missed this when it first came out: Gameful: An HQ for world changing games. Posited, it appears, by game promoter Jane McGonigal. Ideas to use game dynamics...
From Michael Nielsen
Open science in the Wall Street Journal
I have a piece in the Wall Street Journal arguing that publicly funded science should be open science.
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Video of Kid Eating Squid
It's hard to tell if he likes it. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
From Schneier on Security
Full Extent of the Attack that Compromised RSA in March
Brian Kerbs has done the analysis; it's something like 760 companies that were compromised. Among the more interesting names on the list are Abbott Labs, the Alabama...
From The Eponymous Pickle