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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
Presidential Event on Innovation, Competitiveness This Morning
President Obama is
From Schneier on Security
Protecting Private Information on Smart Phones
AppFence is a technology -- with a working prototype -- that protects personal information on smart phones. It does this by either substituting innocuous information...
From Wild WebMink
? Control Considered Harmful
When society was arranged as a series of intermediaries serving disconnected clients, distinguishing clients from non-clients was a key element of business. But...
From The Noisy Channel
It Just Works
Given that I work for the world’s largest professional network, I take work very personally. I’m also deeply involved in LinkedIn’s hiring process, which gives...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Foursquare Partners with Amex
An Instructive development. Have been awaiting a good commercial example of the use of a location gaming social system like Foursquare. Will watch this development...
From Wild WebMink
? Talks In Brazil Next Week
While the journey is a long one, I always enjoy visiting Brazil. Some of my best friends live there, and the whole place infused with a positive energy that’s unique...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Precise Language (again)
I am in the midst of a three-times-normal-speed theory of computing class for graduate students who need to know this material for the qualifying exam, so I have...
From Putting People First
Achieving long-term sustainability at a Belgian expo centre
A road(map) to sustainability: How an Expo centre can become low-impact The Event project, funded by Flanders In Shape, a Flemish design promotion agency, created...
From Schneier on Security
NSA Style Manual
National Security Agency (NSA) SIGINT Reporter's Style and Usage Manual, 2010.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Announces
In a Dear Colleague Letter issued earlier this month, the NSF’s Directorate for Geosciences and Office of Cyberinfrastructure call for “an open, adaptable, and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lindstrom and Graphic US Cigarette Packaging
In the news this week word that the US is changing its Cigarette packaging to remove the text health warning and replacing them with graphic scare images. I was...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics Magazine
Analytics Magazine, always interesting content in the process of improving business. Techniques, case studies, software, trends. The deep value proposition for...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Probabilities are unnecessary mathematical artifacts
There has been much philosophical debate about randomness. While people often offer the nature of consciousness as a fundamental unresolved question, we should...
From Computational Complexity
Creating an Email System at Cornell
Email celebrates its fortieth anniversary so let me tell the story of my job for three summers, and part-time during the academic year, while an undergrad at Cornell...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Billion Users
Google got a billion unique users in May, eWeek reports. Our computer connectedness continues to grow.
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Search for Jim Gray
A fascinating technical overview of the unsuccessful search for lost at sea computer scientist Jim Gray in 2007. I remember following the effort. There was no...
From Schneier on Security
Insider Attack Against M&A Information in Document Titles
Protecting against insiders is hard. Kluger and two accomplices -- a Wall Street trader and a mortgage broker -- allegedly stole and traded on material nonpublic...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tablet Use Surging
Adage: 12% of US users have a tablet like the iPad. Expected to double by next year. More useful statistics.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
More About
A couple weeks ago, I briefly noted in this space the June 9-10 US Ignite and GigU Workshops held at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH. The highlight...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM