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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: Squid Record
I don't know which is more exciting: that someone is trying to break the squid record, or that there is a squid record in the first place. An Auckland scientist...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Proving Mobile ROI
A good case study in StorefrontBackTalk on the ROI from mobile marketing efforts by Pizza-Hut.-
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sustainability Impact on Supply Chain Workshop
This looks to be very interesting, if you are in the Cincinnati area consider attending: Sixth Annual Workshop on Hot Topics in Supply Chain Analytics, Practice...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Whole Foods and Social Media
Case study on Whole Foods using social media. ' ... Even if you
From Schneier on Security
Homebrew Cryptography
Nice article about a would-be spy and his homebrew pencil-and-paper cryptography.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The best software developers are great at Mathematics?
One of the upsides of working for a university are the stimulating academic discussions. Yesterday, a philosopher challenged me a question: Beyond the fact that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Progress in Quantum Algorithms
In CACM: Recent Progress in Quantum Algorithms: What quantum algorithms outperform classical computation and how do they do it?. The early parts of this article...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Solving Household Problems
In the Enterprise a key goal was intimately understanding the needs of the consumer. It can be done in part by talking to many of them in contextual environments...
From Schneier on Security
Car-Key Copier
This< is neat: The Impressioner consists of a sensor that goes into the lock and sends information back to a computer via USB about the location of the lock's...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-02-12
New flaws in chip and pin system revealed Watch the video and see this entirely straightforward attack being carried out. There...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Summer Computer Camps 2010
Last week I posted about some professional development opportunities for teachers this summer. I expect to post most in the days to come. But for now the otheriD...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Administration
Earlier this month the Administration released its budget request for the 2011 Fiscal Year, which will start October 1 (whether or not Congress finishes the budget...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
FOSS Workshop, Day 2
The attendees at the CCC-supported workshop on Free/Open Source Software met today at UC Irvine’s Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences to work in break...
From Schneier on Security
Man-in-the-Middle Attack Against Chip and PIN
Nice attack against the EMV -- Eurocard Mastercard Visa -- the "chip and PIN" credit card payment system. The attack allows a criminal to use a stolen card without...
From Computational Complexity
FOCS 2010 CALL FOR PAPES is out!
(Univ of MD at College Park had Monday, Tuesday, Wed, Thursday all off. I've spend most of that time shoveling snow, so I am tired. Hence I am glad to have a SHORT...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Learning Photography with Augmented Reality
This is the first in a three-part series of design proposals for augmented reality learning applications. These are from a paper I wrote in my computers and cognition...
From My Biased Coin
FOCS 2010 Call for Papers is Up
Luca Trevisan sent me the link for the call for FOCS 2010. Key points: The deadline is April 7. And, in a move that I approve of, there's no page limit on submissions...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Junk Chart Book
The author of the always interesting Junk Chart Blog, Kaiser Fung, now has a book out. Described in the blog and now available: Numbers Rule Your World: The hidden...
From The Eponymous Pickle