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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 Eponymous Pickle
Thingmagic and 100 Uses of RFID
I talked to Thingmagic about ten years ago, shortly after their creation from work started at MIT, when the enterprise took a close look at the uses of the 'internet...
From Wild WebMink
? Rating OpenJDK Governance
I used to be a member of the Interim Governance Board for the OpenJDK project I helped Sun start to host an open source implementation of the Java platform under...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented Reality at the Big Game
Junaio and USA Today will be including an example of augmented reality at the Superbowl football game this weekend. This should expose this idea to many people...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
A New Direction for CS
This past Tuesday I had the privilege of attending a presentation titled Developing a New National Course in Computer Science presented by Dr. Owen Astrachan of...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Introduction to Educational Games
Last week I did a quick introduction to educational games for our game development club. There is a client who is hoping to give students an opportunity to create...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter & Gamble Innovation in Asia
A very good HBR article on the topic. Bruce Brown, P&G's CTO, talks about the challenges of the future for a global company. A number of interesting specifics...
From Computational Complexity
All the news that fit to tweet
The Daily Shows Slogan used to be When news break we fix it! This raises the question: When does breaking news actually break? (My memory of this may be hazy...
From Wild WebMink
Open Source Procurement and Copyright
Legacy procurement rules that try to demand custom copyright licenses and the assignment of new copyright to your company could be costing you dearly. They could...
From Wild WebMink
? New Things
News in (Very) Brief – Open Enterprise Despite all his instincts as a journalist telling him otherwise, Glyn is experimenting with link posts – take a look and...
From Schneier on Security
ATM Skimmer on Bank Door Lock
This is a clever development in ATM skimming technology. It's a skimmer that attaches to the ATM-room door lock, not the ATM itself. Combined with a hidden camera...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
To Hack or Not to Hack
The other day I solved a problem in a slightly out of the box way. That is to say that it worked but its not the sort of solution you will see recommended by anyone...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Policy Highlights from Communications of the ACM - November 2010 (Vol. 53, No. 11)
Below is a list of items with policy relevance from the November issue of Communications of the ACM. As always, much of the material in CACM is premium content,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Replacements for the Newspaper
If you put text and pictures on a pad device is this a replacement for a newspaper? The roll out of The Daily is an attempt at making this work. GigaOM discusses...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Who is in Charge of Analytics?
I have started to see corporate explorations of this topic. In a number of experiments we started to build executive information systems (EIS) to try to change...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CRA Launches Effort to Understand Opinions About Recent PostDoc Surge
The Computing Research Association — the umbrella organization of the CCC — today launched an effort to engage the computing research community in a conversation...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM Responds to Department of Commerce Online Privacy Report
Last month the Internet Policy Task Force (a Commerce Department group drawing on expertise from the Patent and Trademark Office, the International Trade Administration...
From Schneier on Security
Hacking HTTP Status Codes
One website can learn if you're logged into other websites. When you visit my website, I can automatically and silently determine if you're logged into Facebook...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Save the Date - Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference 2011
The Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference (CFP) will take place this year June 14 through the 16th in Washington D.C. ACM is one of the conference sponsors...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Buyology Inc Releases NeuroTypes
I see that the neuromarketing firm Buyology Inc has released their Neurotype approach, applying it to determine the ranking of the most desired brands for men and...
From The Eponymous Pickle