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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 Computer Science Teachers Association
Students Need Both Knowledge and Facts
As the new school year starts, an old complaint resurfaces. A recent opinion piece has said once again that US higher education is failing US employers. Students...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Character Amnesia in Chinese
Lots of thoughts out about how technology is altering aspects of literacy. This article from Language Log, about how text messaging is influencing Chinese characters...
From Schneier on Security
Me at the EastWest Institute
Back in May, I attended the EastWest Institute's First Worldwide Cybersecurity Summit in Dallas. I only had eight minutes to speak, and tried to turn the dialog...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Seaswarm Spill Robotics
Report about an MIT project called Seaswarm. Autonomous robotics to address oil spills. Includes an interesting video. I do always wonder about the contextual complexity...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computing Research in Astronomy
Every 10 years, U.S. astronomers come together to generate what has become a highly influential report recommending which astronomy and astrophysics projects should...
From Schneier on Security
Is the Whole Country an Airport Security Zone?
Full-body scanners in roving vans: American Science & Engineering, a company based in Billerica, Massachusetts, has sold U.S. and foreign government agencies more...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Learn from Old Spice
This received considerable publicity. Is it for everyone? Likely not, but it does indicate what can work: What Marketers Can Learn From the Old Spice 'Your Man'...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-08-27
The long, sordid tale of Sun RPC, abbreviated somewhat, to protect the guily and the irresponsible. One of the long-running projects I had at Sun was to get the...
From Computational Complexity
Theory Journals
I got the following request from a reader. I have a question about TCS journals. As I am trying to follow your advice on being more diligent about journalizing...
From The Noisy Channel
HCIR 2010: Bigger and Better than Ever!
Last Sunday was HCIR 2010, the Fourth Annual Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval, held at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, collocated...
From Apophenia
Regulating the Use of Social Media Data
If you were to walk into my office, I’d have a pretty descent sense of your gender, your age, your race, and other identity markers. My knowledge wouldn’t be perfect...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Millenials
Paul Gillin deftly discusses Millenials Coming soon to a cubical near you. I see the same behavior in my millenial children.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Weak Link between Popularity and Influence
HP Researchers find only weak link between popularity and influence. " ... It is worth emphasizing that HP's studies are designed to the highest scientific standards...
From Computational Complexity
Cryptography if P = NP
Bill is at Barriers II in Princeton and promises a full report upon his return. Ask many computer scientists what happens if P = NP and you'll get the response...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-08-26
Jabber Support at WordPress.com This is outstanding; I can now have WordPress ping me when someone comments on my blog (as well as subscribing to other blogs to...
From Schneier on Security
Detecting Deception in Conference Calls
Research paper: Detecting Deceptive Discussions in Conference Calls, by David F. Larcker and Anastasia A. Zakolyukina. Abstract: We estimate classification models...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Making Calls from GMail
You can now make free calls to within the US and Canada from GMail. And make international calls at a low rate. If you have a Google Voice phone number you can...
From Computational Complexity
***SORELLE*** PHD!!/Workshop on Boolean Threshold Functions/NSF program
Three annoucements (the last two I was asked to post) ANNOUCEMENT 1: Congrads to fellow blogger ***SORELLE*** who got her PhD recently. I was on her committee...
From Wild WebMink