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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 Schneier on Security
Security Seals on Voting Machines
Related to this blog post from Wednesday, here's a paper that looks at security seals on voting machines. Andrew W. Appel, "Security Seals on Voting Machines:...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Be The Robot
One of the issues with computer science is that some people would rather move atoms than pixels. That is to say that virtual objects, even if they involve images...
From Wild WebMink
? Communities and Control
What community? If you’re interested in the Tizen project, take a look at Dave Neary’s well-founded scepticism. The whole project has the sound of a force-fit that...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Reminder: Visioning Proposals Due Oct. 14
A reminder that proposals responsive to the Computing Community Consortium’s (CCC) call for workshop programs that will define visions and agendas for exciting...
From Schneier on Security
FBI-Sponsored Backdoors
From a review of Susan Landau's Surveillance or Security?: To catch up with the new technologies of malfeasance, FBI director Robert Mueller traveled to Silicon...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Priming With Lies
In MindHacks, the post mentions facial coding, which we experimented with: A beautifully recursive study has shown that viewing an episode of the psychology ofLie...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nielsen Relates Buzz to TV Ratings
An interesting result. Yet not overly surprising to me. People who have lots of spare time? " ... Today Nielsen, the venerable measurement service, shed light...
From My Biased Coin
Goodbye to Steve Jobs
My Mac laptop froze today. It was an unusual occurrence; I turned the machine off, and for a minute it wouldn't turn back on again. I was in a panic. Then it...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kodak Disrupted
Less than a decade ago we visited Kodak R&D and were impressed by their work with digital camera capabilities. It looked like they were making the transitionA...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Oracle Big Data Analytics Appliance
Continued competition, here from Oracle, to produce high speed appliances for big data. Shows the increasing need for business intelligence platforms. Note the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cheapest Tablet
I followed the hundred dollar laptop project for years. Now we have the $35 tablet. Designed for the rural poor in India. " ... The computer, called Aakash, or...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Computing Across Disciplines
I'm teaching two courses this term that have me thinking a lot about the ubiquity of computing across disciplines, and about the ever increasing need for young...
From Putting People First
Five myths about social media
Ramesh Srinivasan methodically breaks down five ‘myths’ about social media in this Washington Post article: Here are his myths (which few in the UX community would...
From Computational Complexity
Steve Jobs 1955-2011
It's one of those events. You'll always remember where you were when you heard that Steve Jobs passed away. I was at dinner with several visiting computer scientists...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visual Teams Book
See a report on correspondent David Sibbet's new book: Visual Teams: Graphic Tools for Commitment, Innovation, and High Performance. To be released by October...
From Wild WebMink
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Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma
From Schneier on Security
Status Report: Liars and Outliers
Last weekend, I completely reframed the book. I realized that the book isn't about security. It's about trust. I'm writing about how society induces people to...
From The Eponymous Pickle