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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
IPhone as a Security Camera
A $1.99 IPhone App called IP Camera can take a picture every 12 to 15 seconds and then posts the picture to a local network via WiFi. Effectively a security camera...
From Schneier on Security
Malware that Forges Bank Statements
This is brilliant: The sophisticated hack uses a Trojan horse program installed on the victim's machine that alters html coding before it's displayed in the user's...
From Putting People First
Charles Leadbeater and Tim Berners-Lee on the digital revolution
Digital Revolution (working title) is an open source documentary, due for transmission on BBC Two in 2010, that will take stock of 20 years of change brought about...
From The Noisy Channel
HCIR 2009 Proceedings Now Available
The HCIR 2009 proceedings are now available on the workshop web site. We’re planning to
From The Noisy Channel
Jeff Jarvis and Matt Cutts on the New FTC Blog Regulations
As has been anticipated for a while–and discussed during the Ethics of Blogging panel–the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has published explicit guidelines...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Leadership Cohort Ohio Update
I decided to read Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell as it was recommended to me by several people. That in turn let me to read his first book Tipping Point. This may...
From Schneier on Security
UK Defense Security Manual Leaked
Wow. It's over 2,000 pages, so it'll take time to make any sense of. According to Ross Anderson, who's given it a quick look over, "it seems to be the bureaucratic...
From Schneier on Security
Moving Hippos in the Post-9/11 World
It's a security risk: The crate was hoisted onto the flatbed with a 120-ton construction crane. For security reasons, there were no signs on the truck indicating...
From Putting People First
Microsoft demos multi-touch enabled mice concepts
Microsoft is exploring the concept of multi-touch mice, a new research paper reveals. The paper is being presented today as part of the User Interface Software...
From Putting People First
How to visualise energy savings
Kevin Anderson reports in The Guardian on how a new generation of monitors can generate data about your energy use and help you cut your costs and carbon. “These...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Focus Groups Failing for the Movies
Roger Dooley suggests that the recent mention of using brain scans to provide accurate and specific predictions for scary movie content really shows a further failure...
From Computational Complexity
Two Recent Complexity Books omit Mahaney's theorem- ovesight or wisdom?
In a prior post (a while back) I pondered if Mahaney's theorem (SAT \le_m S, S Spare, implies P=NP) should be taught in a basic grad course in complexity. I thought...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cellphones as our Remote Controls
Steve King writes an excellent blog: Small Business Labs on small business and entrepreneurial topics that is useful. Notable is a recent article on the increasing...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
What is more fundamental: Physics or Computer Science?
Computer Science can be taken a natural science: the study of how the universe processes information. If it is a natural science, then does it build on Physics?...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of October 5
October 7 Meeting: The Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board will meet. The focus of the meeting will be on the NIST Information Technology Laboratory...
From My Biased Coin
Job Competitions
Stefan Savage made an insightful comment related to the issue of jobs: I've long felt that its a fallacy that there exists a fine-grained Platonic ideal of "goodness"...
From Wild WebMink
Links for 2009-10-05
The Cybersecurity Myth Cringely on why the US claim to be in the process of hiring 1,000 "cybersecurity experts" is unlikely to impress any real...
From Schneier on Security