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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 Computational Complexity
A HW policy- MORAL due date.
This semester I am using the following HW policy. HW is due on Tuesday. However, your dog died! Hence you get an extension to Thursday. That is, for all people...
From Putting People First
Ethnography informs text-free UI for illiterate people
Indrani Medhi, an Associate Researcher at Microsoft Research India where she works in the Technology for Emerging Markets team, designed a text free user interface...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lessons from a Restaurant App
Well stated, I like simple apps with a recognizable and uniform interface. Because mobile often means we don't have the time to learn a new user interface on the...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of March 8
March 10 Hearing: The House Foreign Affairs Committee will hold a hearing on U.S. cyberspace policy and foreign policy (rescheduled from February 10). 10 a.m....
From Schneier on Security
De-Anonymizing Social Network Users
Interesting paper: "A Practical Attack to De-Anonymize Social Network Users." Abstract. Social networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Xing have been...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 8 March 2010
Well last week was another interesting week for me. I finished it off with a short trip to Houston TX for the annual HP Code Wars high school programming competition...
From My Biased Coin
Carousel (NSDI Paper)
The "final version" for our NSDI paper, Carousel: Scalable Logging for Intrusion Prevention Systems, is now up.Here's the main idea. In IPS systems, the logger...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Micro Industries
Micro Industries is a company that does some very innovative work in the area of retail signage. We worked with them in the innovation centers. They now have...
From The Noisy Channel
Google and Transparency
Let me preface this post with a clear disclaimer: I work at Google, but the views I express on this blog are my own personal views. Last week, Google head of webspam...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Do School Libraries Need Books?
A debate in the NYT: I am the patron of a regional library that just relocated to a new modern building. There are fewer shelves of books now. There is an enormous...
From CERIAS Blog
Making the CWE Top 25, 2010 Edition
As last year, I was glad to be able to participate in the making of the CWE Top 25. The 2010 Edition has been more systematically and methodically produced than...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Browse Popular Science
You can now browse online the last 137 years of the magazine Popular Science for free. A good view of previous times. Pretty outrageous predictions at times, I...
From The Noisy Channel
Not All Queries Are Created Equal
A topic with which I developed an obsession in my last few years at Endeca is understanding how to predict query difficulty and performance–performance in the information...
From The Noisy Channel
HCIR 2010: A Pre-Announcement
We’re gearing up to officially announce the HCIR 2010 workshop, but I wanted to give folks here a heads up, as well as to put out a call for a volunteer. The Fourth...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hand Touchscreen
Body acoustics can turn hand into a tochscreen. Work at Carnegie Mellon and Microsoft produces a system called Skinput.
From The Eponymous Pickle
WSJ on the Style of Inforamational Graphics
Good review on this new book. A style guide on how to do mainly quantitative graphics. " .. Dona Wong, who had stints on the graphics teams at both the Wall Street...
From Putting People First
Can understanding human irrationality help solve our energy problems?
Behavioral economics is used to examine how consumers make decisions about everything from their life savings to which brands of jam they select in a supermarket...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Foursquare for Loyalty in CIncinnati
In today's local paper a good article on the use of the social location game Foursquare in the Cincinnati area. Good to see the idea being explored outside big...
From The Eponymous Pickle
March/April Analytics Magazine
New in analytics magazine for March/April Analytics is brought to you by INFORMS (www.informs.org) -- the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences...
From Wild WebMink