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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
Unilever: Blends of New and Old Advertising
From Knowledge@Wharton: Will the Future of Advertising Be a Blend of Old and New Media?. Unilever's "Dirt is Good," is considered by experts to be a perfect example...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Data Breach and P2P Bills Pass House Committee
The House Energy and Commerce Committee marked up two bills this morning addressing concerns over the use of consumers' personal information and the potential exposure...
From Schneier on Security
Immediacy Affects Risk Assessments
New experiment demonstrates what we already knew: That's because people tend to view their immediate emotions, such as their perceptions of threats or risks, as...
From Computational Complexity
The Journal Manifesto
Some people say that for-profit journals do not currently serve our community well. Some even think they cannot do so. Others think they are doing a fine job as...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-09-30
BHRA: Atlantic Avenue Tunnel This looks like a pleasantly different excursion - I'll have to watch for tours for next time I am...
From Schneier on Security
The Doghouse: Crypteto
Crypteto has a 49,152-bit symmetric key: The most important issue of any encryption product is the 'bit key strength'. To date the strongest known algorithm has...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Communications Tool to Roll
The long awaited Google Wave tool is about to roll to early users. ' ... designed to consolidate features from e-mail, instant messaging, blogging, wikis, multimedia...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Counting Shoppers Thermally
From Storefrontbacktalk. Video based tracking systems continue to evolve: ' ... Many retail stores rely on customer-counting systems triggered by body heat despite...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Antivirus
Microsoft is now offering a basic free antivirus capability for its operating systems. This could start some tussles with other offerings.-
From Putting People First
Herkko Hietanen: The social future of television
Herkko Hietanen of the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology tells his audience at the Berkman Center that
From Schneier on Security
The Problem of Vague Laws
The average American commits three felonies a day: the title of a new book by Harvey Silverglate. More specifically, the problem is the intersection of vague laws...
From Computational Complexity
The IT Rules
My family has discovered a British Series, the IT Crowd, about two techies in a corporate IT department. An American version never got past the pilot phase. ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Mining Software
A new blog which describes data mining software. I see that it covers SPSS Clementine, which has since been renamed PASW Modeler. SPSS has since been bought by...
From Wild WebMink
? Understanding Motivation
The Three Camps of Open Source "It's human nature to think in simple dichotomies: Free Software - GNU - GPL vs. Open Source - BSD...
From Schneier on Security
Predicting Characteristics of People by the Company they Keep
Turns out "gaydar" can be automated: Using data from the social network Facebook, they made a striking discovery: just by looking at a person's online friends,...
From My Biased Coin
Blog Posts of the Day
A blog post worth reading is Mihai Patrascu's post on, essentially, coming in second, if only for the chance to play armchair psychologist and try to deconstruct...
From The Eponymous Pickle