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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
Google CPG Blog
I was reminded that Google has a Consumer Package Goods vertical blog that I had not visited in some time, check it out.
From Schneier on Security
Electronic Car Lock Denial-of-Service Attack
Clever: Inspector Richard Haycock told local newspapers that the possible use of the car lock jammers would help explain a recent spate of thefts from vehicles...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
President Obama Recognizes Science Superstars
Earlier this week President Obama hosted the winners of a number of major STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) competitions. Two of the students who...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Senses and Sales
Roger Dooley writes about the use of more senses to promote sales. Along the way mentioning and quoting Dan Hill's new book: About Face: The Secrets of Emotionally...
From Computational Complexity
Will there be a 50th CCC? Will you be there?
At the 25th CCC Juris Hartmanis gave a great talk to celebrate having a 25th. Will there be a 50th? I asked people at the conference. What did they say? Watch the...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The future is already here
It is not 9am yet. Nevertheless, I got a lot done: I attended the thesis proposal of my student Eduardo via Skype. I was literally in my basement with a fresh cup...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-10-21
Every email and website to be stored "Every email, phone call and website visit is to be recorded and stored after the Coalition Government revived controversial...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Adding Human Intelligence to Software
From CACM: Whats interesting here is the connection to Amazon's Mechanical Turk, which we used to experiment with human intelligence tasks. There are some things...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Girl Scouts Fight Photoshopping
This is interesting, reminding me of the Dove ads of a few years ago. What are the implications of 'healthy media' ? Or is an act like this just censorship?
From The Eponymous Pickle
Primer for Using YouTube
An Adage primer for using YouTube as a marketing tool. I admit I am mostly a consumer of YouTube, and have just noticed some colleagues and companies starting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Identifying People By Their Phones
More about using biometric behavior with devices like phones for identification." ... Tabletop touch screens such as Microsoft's Surface are designed for sharing...
From Schneier on Security
Workshop on the Economics of Information Security
I am the program chair for WEIS 2011, which is to be held next June in Washington, DC. Submissions are due at the end of February. Please forward and repost the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Store Simulation
I just took a renewed look at the general problem of simulating retail store operations. We worked with a UK vendor called Space Syntax on this at one time. ...
From Wild WebMink
License Compliance: Not An Open Source Problem
The New York Times featured the activities of the GPL enforcement community recently. While there’s a part of me that’s pleased there are people doing this, I’m...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Video Traffic to Explode
Stan Dyck sends this along: " ...By 2014 90% of all Internet traffic will be video. Every device will lead with video. Phone. Tv. PC. #cisco ceo chambers at #Nvtc...
From Schneier on Security
Predator Software Pirated?
This isn't good: Intelligent Integration Systems (IISi), a small Boston-based software development firm, alleges that their Geospatial Toolkit and Extended SQL...
From Wild WebMink
? Gaming The System
When a company asks for your copyright “When a company says which of these conditions it will accept, that will show you how far it plans to depart from the principles...
From My Biased Coin
Guest Post over at Computational Complexity Blog
For those still receiving this feed, I have a guest post briefly describing some aspects of life as Area Dean over at the Computational Complexity blog.
From Computational Complexity
A Note from the Trenches (Guest Post from Michael Mitzenmacher)
Former blogger Michael Mitzenmacher talks about being chair and not blogging. In a day for guest posts, over at Geomblog, David Johnson wants to know practical ...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson