Communications of the ACM
Refine your search:
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 CERIAS Blog
Can Your IPv4 Firewall Be Bypassed by IPv6 Traffic?
Do you have a firewall? Maybe it's not as useful as you think it is. I was surprised to discover that IPv6 was enabled on several hosts with default firewallLynis...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Metadata Management
From TDWI: Cost Justification for Metadata Management. " ... Pinning a dollar value or other metric to metadata
From Putting People First
Cutting edge sharing and bartering in Brooklyn
From farming to art, practices like sharing and bartering are being revived and updated for the Twitter age. The New York Times reports from Brooklyn. “Concepts...
From Schneier on Security
Questioning Terrorism Policy
Worth reading: ...what if we chose to accept the fact that every few years, despite all reasonable precautions, some hundreds or thousands of us may die in the...
From Putting People First
Values in technology design and use: ethnography
A couple of months ago former Nokia ethnographer Tricia Wang gave a talk at the Nokia Research Center in Palo Alto, CA, and she just posted the slideshow and the...
From Putting People First
All together now, to each his own sync
New York Times cultural commentator Anand Giridharadas reflects on the fact that as the very idea of mass culture erodes, many people are synced with themselves...
From Putting People First
Intel: it
The Intel announcements this week, particularly those by CTO Justin Rattner, are quite visionary. But also anthropologist Genevieve Bell’s approach is making waves...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing 2010
I really like this award program so I am happy to promote it on my blog. The following is from the official announcement. I strongly encourage you to share this...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Tech Retail Value.
An interesting early experiment with a restaurant using social technology. Did McDonald's get a 33% increase in foot traffic from Foursquare? ReadWriteWeb looks...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Scribe
This Google writing capability fills in phrases for you. Generally a reasonable idea, but can also be annoying unless you are used to it. -
From Schneier on Security
Master HDCP Key Cracked
The master key for the High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection standard -- that's what encrypts digital television between set-top boxes and digital televisions...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Can Science be wrong? You bet!
A common answer to my post on the reliability of science, was that fraud was marginal and that, ultimately, science is self-correcting. That is true on one condition...
From Schneier on Security
Automatic Document Declassification
DARPA is looking for something that can automatically declassify documents: I'll be honest: I'm not exactly sure what kind of technological solution you can build...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Thoughts on Writing My First CHI Paper
I've been working on a paper for CHI2011, one of the (or the?) top conferences in human computer interaction. I'm aiming really high with this and know full well...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Liespotting
An interesting article on detecting lies in conversations. The article makes the case that there is currently an epidemic of deception. Everyone wants to know...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Billion in Digital Book Sales
Barnes & Noble expects to have a billion dollars in digital book sales by 2013. Another example of the changes from paper to digital format. Get your readers ready...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Pex for Fun
Can you read code in C#, F# or Visual Basic? Do you like programming puzzles we (well the Pex Team, part of the Research in Software Engineering (RiSE) groupMicrosoft...
From Putting People First
Context-aware devices that become our natural extensions
Much coverage on the presentation by Justin Rattner, Intel’s CTO at the Intel Developer Forum, where he discussed a future with so-called context-aware computers...
From Putting People First