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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
Bias of Convenient Study Choices
Always thought there was something wrong with using US college students for determining universal psychological facts about populations, except when determining...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Computational Complexity and Games
From MIT, an interesting piece about representing the real world, always a good thing to think about. I never thought that game theory could accurately represent...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Just What is Computer Science?
Just what is computer science? Is it a science course? Is it a math course? Is it a business course? These questions pop up more frequently now that states...
From Wild WebMink
? Inconvenient Truth
Do music artists fare better in a world with illegal file-sharing? Answer: Yes. So why do the labels want to kill it off? Because they don't. Translation...
From Wild WebMink
A Software Freedom Scorecard
I spoke this morning at the South Tyrol Free Software Conference in Bolzano, Italy. My subject was the idea of a "software freedom scorecard", a list of indicators...
From Putting People First
Meet Microsoft
Microsoft Corp. is counting on Ms. Larson-Green, its head of Windows Experience, to deliver an operating system that delights the world’s PC users as much as its...
From Schneier on Security
Blowfish in Fiction
The algorithm is mentioned in Von Neumann's War, by John Ringo and Travis Taylor. P. 495: The guy was using a fairly simple buffer overflow attack but withEvery...
From Schneier on Security
Video Interview with Me
Here's an interview with me, conducted at the Information Security Decisions conference in Chicago in October.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Got a Stain? There's an IPhone App for That
I see that the Tide Stain Brain is now available as an IPhone App. This work has a long history at P&G and I had several involvements in the knowledge being delivered...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Phone as Chemical Sensor
And an application proposed by NASA that converts an IPhone into a chemical sensor. Looks like a very rough mashup, but I much like the direction. Could something...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
More database compression means more speed? Right?
Current practical database compression techniques stress speed over compression: Vectorwise is using Super-scalar RAM-CPU cache compression which includes a carefully...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Google Knows About You
This is worthwhile for just general caution if you are into Google applications. ' ... Google may know more about you than your mother does. Got a problem with...
From Computational Complexity
Jobs
As many university's still feel the effect of the financial crises, many have limited or no positions to hire new tenure-track faculty so I expect the academicUniversity...
From Wild WebMink
? Starting November With Some Free Music
I just posted this week's free music downloads list over on my personal blog.
From My Biased Coin
Surveys
This post is about surveys. It's motivated by one of my tasks last night, as I has to spend some time going over the final proofs for the survey Hash-Based Techniques...
From Schneier on Security
Beyond Security Theater
[I was asked to write this essay for the New Internationalist (n. 427, November 2009, pp. 10–13). It's nothing I haven't said before, but I'm pleased with howessay...
From The Noisy Channel
Week 1 at Google: Information Overload!
As you might imagine, it’s quite a switch to go from criticizing Google from the outside to being on the inside. Jeff Jarvis, who was gracious enough not to make...
From Putting People First