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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
Attacking High-Frequency Trading Networks
Turns out you can make money by manipulating the network latency. cPacket has developed a proof of concept showing that these side-channel attacks can be usedthis...
From Putting People First
Distance Lab closed down
The BBC reports that the Distance Lab closed down. Distance Lab was a Scottish creative research initiative for digital media technology and design innovation,...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
A Joint Call for Research on Why Computer Science Education is Important for K-12
As much as we believe and try to make the case that studying computer science is good for all students, there is a profound lack of research to actually support...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sell to Their Shopping Lists
Good piece from Herb Sorensen's Views site. Read the whole thing.Sell to Their "Shopping Lists" (Tell'em Which to Buy!)December 20, 2010 - by Herb Sorensen, Ph...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Taking Advantage of Emotion with Augmented Reality
I've been thinking about how augmented reality can take advantage of emotion to help people complete their tasks more efficiently. These musings were originally...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wharton Consumer Analytics Initiative
This is good news, I was impressed by what I saw the Interactive Media Initiative doing. Very empirically data based. They ask for the data! Certainly the previous...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Demarchy and probabilistic algorithms
Demarchy are political systems built using randomness. Demarchy has been used to designate political leaders in Ancient Greece and in France (during the French...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Improved Google Goggles
The mouthful of a smartphone App called Google Goggles has been improved. It now recognizes print ads. More here. " ... With the new version of Google Goggles,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kroger Tests New Fujitsu Checkout
Kroger is testing a new Fujitsu Advantage self checkout system that is said to improve interaction with consumers and decrease checkout times. We extensively tested...
From Putting People First
Design research and innovation: an interview with Don Norman
Jeroen Van Geel of Johnny Holland interviewed Donald Norman about innovation, design research, and emotional design. Earlier this year you wrote that design research...
From Schneier on Security
"Homeland Security Hasn't Made Us Safer"
This will be nothing new to readers of this blog, but it's nice to read other people saying it too.
From Wild WebMink
Public Information
OpenAM Book and eBook – Packt Publishing The first book about OpenAM is due for publication any day now. I hope they send me a review copy! Java/DevJam/2011/Fosdem...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
GiveCamp Across America
GiveCamp Across America
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Interfaces
From CES, in Technology Review: On the Future of Interfaces. " ... The mouse and keyboard have been how nearly everyone has interacted with computers since Apple...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Zest at Procter
Procter & Gamble has sold the soap brand Zest, which has an interesting ad history, nicely written about in AdAge.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
New Year, New You?
Yep, it's that time of year. The time where we start to reflect on all the good from last year and all the things we want to accomplish in the new year. Typically...
From Computational Complexity
LICS and TAMC call for papers
Two Call For Papers Announcements: LICS 2011 (Logic in Computer Science) has posted its call-for-papers here. (It was probably posted a while back- the submission...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of January 10
January 13 Meeting: The Technical Guidelines Development Committee of the Elections Assistance Commission will meet (continues January 14) 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m....
From Schneier on Security