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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 U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM Comments on National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace
In late June the White House issued a second Draft of the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace. They opened a public comment process only on...
From Computational Complexity
Do you want to review a book
I will be sending my next book review column for SIGACT NEWS off on July 28, 2010. It has LOTS of books on its BOOKS I WANT REVIEWED list. YOU get a chance to look...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intel and the Social Scientists
An interesting post of how Intel is increasingly adopting a social science view. It is intriguing to think of how a company of engineers can move in this direction...
From Putting People First
The web means the end of forgetting
Legal scholars, technologists and cyberthinkers are wrestling with the first great existential crisis of the digital age: the impossibility of erasing your posted...
From Putting People First
The unintended consequences of Facebook
Facebook is about to celebrate its 500-millionth user, but the social media application has had wide consequences, even for those who have never signed on, writes...
From Putting People First
Coercing people into a brave new digital world
Design consultant Martyn Perks thinks that a UK government-backed campaign to get the entire UK adult population online “threatens to make cyber slaves of us all...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-07-21
Phase relationships in the standardization process James Gosling wrote in 1990: "standards are increasingly being viewed as competitive weapons rather than as technological...
From Schneier on Security
EU Counterterrorism Strategy
Interesting journal article evaluating the EU's counterterrorism efforts.
From Apophenia
MySpace and Facebook: How Racist Language Frames Social Media (and Why You Should Care)
(This post was written for Blogher and originally posted there.) Every time I dare to talk about race or class and MySpace & Facebook in the same breath, a public...
From The Noisy Channel
SIGIR 2010: Day 1 Posters
The first day of SIGIR 2010 ended with a monster poster session–over 100 posters to see in 2 hours in a hall without air conditioning! I managed to see a handful...
From The Noisy Channel
SIGIR 2010: Day 1 Technical Sessions
I’ve always felt that parallel conference sessions are designed to optimize for anticipated regret, and SIGIR 2010 is no exception. I decided that I’d try to attend...
From The Noisy Channel
SIGIR 2010: Day 1 Keynote
As promised, here are some highlights of the SIGIR 2010 conference thus far. Also check out the tweet stream with hash tag #sigir2010. I arrived here on Monday,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wegmans Introduces Employee Blog
Always innovative retailer Wegmans has set up a blog contributed by employees. Worth a look.
From Apophenia
Skin Whitening, Tanning, and Vaseline
Growing up as a white girl in Pennsylvania, I was taught that being tan was beautiful. My wealthier classmates would go on vacations to Florida in the winter,...
From Schneier on Security
Economic Considerations of Website Password Policies
Two interesting research papers on website password policies. "Where Do Security Policies Come From?": Abstract: We examine the password policies of 75 different...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Image Search Improves
In GigaOM: Image search in Google has improved their user interface to allow you to see many more images per search. They have a reported ten billion images accessible...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Ideas Project
Sponsored by Nokia, The ideas Project is a selection of video presentation by mostly well-known pundits in the area of communications and information tech. If they...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science