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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 Schneier on Security
Texas Instruments Signing Keys Broken
Texas Instruments' calculators use RSA digital signatures to authenticate any updates to their operating system. Unfortunately, their signing keys are too short...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Look at Clario Analytics as a Service
As part of a larger BI package exploration I took a look at Clario Analytics SaaS (Software as a service). You start by uploading your data via a secure FTP client...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Personal Mobility
Honda has a Segway-like, unicycle form personal mobility device called the U-3X in the works that is more remarkable looking than the Segway. No specific dates...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
FCC Will Tackle Net Neutrality
Earlier this week Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski announced his intention to establish an expanded definition of net neutrality to...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The most important Theoretical Computer Science problem is inconsequential
Some consider the P = NP problem to be the most important Theoretical Computer Science problem. It asks whether all problems whose solution can be verified quickly...
From Schneier on Security
The Onion on Security
"Authorities Called in to Examine Suspicious-Looking Ham."
From Computational Complexity
My two cents on P vs NP
There have been several posts on blogs about P vs NP and two expository articles. Is there anything else to add. I'm not sure, but here are my 2 cents. QUESTION...
From Putting People First
Networked objects session at Lift Asia 2009 conference
Nicolas Nova reports on the
From Putting People First
Augmented reality gets off to a wobbly start
The New Scientist reviews the current state of Augmented Reality and is a bit concerned: “While some who back the technology think its time has now come, after...
From Putting People First
Information overload
Too many emails, texts and tweets can lead to rising anxiety, lower intelligence
From Putting People First
O2 launches
O2 is launching a new mobile phone network which it has dubbed as the first
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brand Retail as Theater
This reminds me of the work of Brenda Laurel, game developer and systems theorist, who wrote about computers and theater. The theater of the brand: Building entertainment...
From Schneier on Security
Sears Spies on its Customers
It's not just hackers who steal financial and medical information: Between April 2007 and January 2008, visitors to the Kmart and Sears web sites were invitedSony...
From My Biased Coin
Extending the Sketching of Sketches Result
I'm putting online a paper with Zhenming Liu and Kai-Min Chung (both graduate students at Harvard) that extends one of the results from Declaring Independence via...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Computer Crime Legislation
Volokh posts on recently passed computer crime legislation. He quotes the entire act so that you can read it yourself. True it is legally cryptic, but you can get...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stephen Wolfram Talk
Stepehen Wolfram talks and does a Q&A on WolframAlpha and related topics they are working on. I need to get back to WolframAlpha to see how it is progressing. As...
From The Eponymous Pickle