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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
Friday Squid Blogging: LOLSquid
It's supposed to be a classic, but I've never seen it before.
From Schneier on Security
Remote Printing to an E-Mail Address
This is cool technology from HP: Each printer with the ePrint capability will be assigned its own e-mail address. If someone wants to print a document from an...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The fallacy of absolute numbers
I often come across the following type of arguments in research papers: You could save 3 bits of storage for every value in your database. Surely that’s irrelevant...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visual Concept Search Solved?
From a paper by Cees Snoek and Arnold Smeulders of the University of Amsterdam, suggests that the machine understanding of images is within reach. Minimal abstract...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Critical Thinking
Friday is not the day to talk about thinking. I think a lot of people in general and students in particular are looking to stop thinking right about now. But critical...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nestle Supermarket Barge
Had heard of this before but only briefly... a novel idea which uses a barge on tributaries of the Amazon river in Brazil to engage truly emerging markets. Much...
From The Eponymous Pickle
FMI Revamps Website
FMI provides excellent technical information, over the years have been to a number of their conferences: FMI (Food Marketing Institute) has updated its website,...
From Schneier on Security
The Continuing Incompetence of Terrorists
The Atlantic on stupid terrorists: Nowhere is the gap between sinister stereotype and ridiculous reality more apparent than in Afghanistan, where it's fair toPortrait...
From Wild WebMink
? BCS Members: Vote Now
If you’re a BCS Member or Fellow you’ve received a voting pack in the mail that needs your attention. Please vote this weekend so that there’s no risk of missing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visual Experience Management
From Saffron. Intriguing linkage of associative memory and visualization. Will examine it more closely."
From My Biased Coin
Fly-By Conferences (ISIT edition)
I'm writing this from ISIT (Int'l Symposium on Inf. Theory) in Austin. In fact, I'm sitting in on the session on for "Coding for Memories", a topic I did someweb...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Watson: The Next Ken Jennings?
Ken Jennings, the man known for his record-breaking streak of 74 consecutive
From Schneier on Security
Hot Dog Security
A nice dose of risk reality: Last week, the American Academy of Pediatrics issued a statement calling for large-type warning labels on the foods that kids most...
From Computational Complexity
Alternative Careers for Logicians
(Will post on Complexity next week. I am waiting until the invited talks have their slides online so that I can point to them.) Lets say you just got a PhDacademic...
From The Eponymous Pickle