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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 U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Committee Considers Changes to Cybersecurity Research and Development
This morning the Research and Science Education Subcommittee of the House Science and Technology Committee met to mark up legislation that would amend the Cyber...
From Computational Complexity
Another Reason to goto FOCS: Theory Day!
(Posted by request of Vijay V. Vazirani. Flame him for any spelling or grammar mistakes, or if you don't like the content.) Another reason to goto FOCS:here...
From The Noisy Channel
Goby Goes Deep
At the first HCIR workshop in 2007, Michael Stonebraker stood up in the middle of an open discussion session and told all assembled that we needed to be thinking...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Global CIO Study Promotes Analytics
Here is the place to download the study. Standardization, Security and analytics are emphasized. Requires a minimal registration.' .. A new global study of more...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Machine Vision
Machine vision has been around for a long time. For example systems in manufacturing lines that easily detect varying quality. Once you take such system in a human...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Decline of Cursive
On the decline of cursive handwriting, in a recent article.I had discussions about this with a K-12 teacher relative, confirming the article. Little time is spent...
From Wild WebMink
Mind Your Own Business (Model)
I'm not sure why, but the "there is no open source business model" discussion has woken up again, with Matthew Aslett and Stephen Walli in particular chipping in...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM Looks Back at FY 2009
The ACM?s Policy Office staff and USACM?s leadership have compiled USACM?s annual report for the past fiscal year - 2009 (which ended June 30). This year?s report...
From Wild WebMink
? As Simple As Possible, And No More
The Obama Plan in 4 Minutes A really good edit for the attention-impaired of the joint session Obama delivered.USA politics health...
From Schneier on Security
Eliminating Externalities in Financial Security
This is a good thing: An Illinois district court has allowed a couple to sue their bank on the novel grounds that it may have failed to sufficiently secure their...
From CERIAS Blog
The Secunia Personal Software Inspector
So you have all the patches from Microsoft applied automatically, Firefox updates itself as well as its extensions... But do you still have vulnerable, outdated...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Qwaq Becomes Teleplace
I recently brought up Qwaq, which we looked at for remote visual, avatar-enabled collaboration. They announced today that they have become Teleplace. Good nameTeleplace...
From Computational Complexity
The Netflix Prize and the Sequel
Nearly three years ago I posted on the just announced Netflix prize. First to a 10% increase in the quality of the movie recommendations would receive a million...
From Putting People First
Enhancing user interaction with first person user interface
Luke Wroblewski, an internationally recognized Web thought leader and Senior Director of Product Ideation & Design at Yahoo! Inc., provides a comprehensive overview...
From Putting People First
Interfaces Magazine interviews Donald Norman
The latest issue of Interfaces Magazine, a quarterly magazine published by Interaction, the specialist HCI group of the British Computer Society (BCS), contains...
From Schneier on Security
Hacking Two-Factor Authentication
Back in 2005, I wrote about the failure of two-factor authentication to mitigate banking fraud: Here are two new active attacks we're starting to see: Man-in-the...
From The Eponymous Pickle