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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 Eponymous Pickle
The Times Regrets the Error
I do read and sometimes quote the NYT on Science topics, but I suggest that those that completely trust such media should take care ... see the correction below...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Problems With Self Serve Checkouts
We tested some of the earliest supermarket self-checkouts in the innovation centers. Shoppers like the idea, but were confused by their operation and were afraid...
From Schneier on Security
Obama's Cybersecurity Czar
Rumors are that RSA president Art Coviello declined the job. No surprise: it has no actual authority but a lot of responsibility. Security experts have pointed...
From Wild WebMink
? Digging Below The Superficial Gloss
Patent Protection For Sale "If you think patents protect plucky innovators and their groundbreaking inventions, you haven't been...
From Computational Complexity
A Blog Sabbatical
With the end of the fall quarter I will take a break from the blog for a few months. This is not another End, just a chance to move my creative juices in another...
From Putting People First
Augmented Reality is overhyped and abused
Augmented Reality is overhyped and abused, writes Matthew Szymczyk in Advertising Age, and we’re in danger of killing off a rather useful technology. “As web-based...
From Putting People First
User-centred design for energy efficiency in buildings
The UK’s Technology Strategy Board is calling for individuals to take part in a five-day interactive workshop (
From My Biased Coin
News Items
The people at Microsoft Research New England are excited to announce that Boaz Barak will be joining them. I imagine the situation is similar to their hiring of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Power of Your Listing in ...
What happens when your site disappears from Google. And who do you complain to?
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Fiscal Year 2010 Budget Almost Done; Science Agencies See Modest Gains
Peter Harsha at the Computing Research Association has the specifics at the CRA Government Affairs Blog. In the current conference agreement most of the science...
From Schneier on Security
Reacting to Security Vulnerabilities
Last month, researchers found a security flaw in the SSL protocol, which is used to protect sensitive web data. The protocol is used for online commerce, webmail...
From Computational Complexity
Whats your Game Mr. Bond? Nim?
BILL: Clyde is teaching a graduate course titled Games, Game Theory, and the Theory of Games. He tells me that there are basically eight kinds of games governed...
From Putting People First
Microsoft social media researcher Danah Boyd in the news
Danah Boyd, a social media researcher at Microsoft Research, is quite in the news these days, including a very nice profile in The Guardian: The Guardian – 9 December...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gimmicky Augmented Reality
Useful AdAge piece on gimmicks and hyping augmented reality. The suggestions are useful. Though gimmicks can be useful in positioning the possibility of an emergent...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Folds
A description in New Scientist of a new way of mapping the spherical earth into flat projections. I have seen a number of examples of similar methods. They are...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
When Technicalities Interfere with Learning
I was observing a middle school computer science class the other day working on a 3D graphics project. The teacher was describing how to define colors using the...
From Schneier on Security
TSA Publishes Standard Operating Procedures
BoingBoing is pretty snarky: The TSA has published a "redacted" version of their s00per s33kr1t screening procedure guidelines (Want to know whether to frisk a...
From Wild WebMink