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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 Female Perspective of Computer Science
Ada Lovelace Day: A Researcher I Admire
Today is Ada Lovelace Day, a day we write about technical women we admire. Last year, I wrote about how much I admired my fellow CU-WISE executives. This year...
From Wild WebMink
? Public Statements
OpenSolaris Board results, Stallman on SaaS, ACTA text leaked and seaweed.
From Schneier on Security
Dead on the No-Fly List
Such "logic": If a person on the no-fly list dies, his name could stay on the list so that the government can catch anyone trying to assume his identity. Butanyone's...
From Computational Complexity
What I'm Doing Over Spring Break, Part I
It's spring break at Northwestern and as I write this Tuesday morning, I'm on a plane from San Francisco to Denver on my way to Columbus, Ohio. My kids have their...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Ada Lovelace Day 2010
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Herb Sorensen Articles
An index of a number of articles by consumer behavior scientist Herb Sorensen. See also my review of his recent book and other technical pieces on shopper behavior...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Mining in Social Networks
In the World Flattener, from Sammy Haroon: ... ' ... Behram Mistree talks about his data mining and analytics experiment using Facebook while he was at MIT ......
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM and CRA Express Concerns Over Cybersecurity Legislation
Lost within all the health care legislation coverage was the release of a new draft of S.773, the Cybersecurity Act of 2010. The new draft was released a week...
From Schneier on Security
New Book: Cryptography Engineering
I have a new book, sort of. Cryptography Engineering is really the second edition of Practical Cryptography. Niels Ferguson and I wrote Practical Cryptography...
From Schneier on Security
Electronic Health Record Security Analysis
In British Columbia: When Auditor-General John Doyle and his staff investigated the security of electronic record-keeping at the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Deep Dark Web
Instructive, most people assume the search engines find everything:" ... Google sees only a fraction of the content that appears on the internet. Stuart Andrews...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Interaction Dynamics and Behavioral Economics
I recently discovered Interaction Dynamics via their Twitter presence. See also their blog: ' ... Interaction Dynamics is a tool to increase online customer conversions...
From Wild WebMink
? Fixes, needed and delivered
The EU ACTA Consultation: European Commission vs. European Parliament In the gentlest possible way considering the reactions of other commentators, Geist points...
From Schneier on Security
Back Door in Battery Charger
Amazing: The United States Computer Emergency Response Team (US-CERT) has warned that the software included in the Energizer DUO USB battery charger contains a...
From Putting People First
Eleven gambits for influencing user behaviour
In his blog, Dan Lockton, a Ph.D. researcher at Brunel University (UK), describes eleven behavioural change patterns “drawn from games or modelled on more playful...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Rethinking Hello World
Is it time to rethink and replace
From The Eponymous Pickle
3M Tracking and Inventory System
In an interesting development: -- 3M Launches Asset and Inventory Tracking System ... The solution includes 13.56 MHz passive RFID tags, handheld and pad readers...
From Putting People First
Connectile dysfunction
Designers can play a pivotal role, writes Mark Baskinger, associate professor in the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University, in empowering elders towards...
From Computational Complexity
Stoc Travel Support/WELCOME BACK LANCE!
(REMINDER AND UPDATE: If you are a a grad student you can apply for travel support for STOC 2010. See here for details. One update on that: since registration and...
From Schneier on Security