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Monopoly Sets for WWII POWs: More Information
From Schneier on Security

Monopoly Sets for WWII POWs: More Information

I already blogged about this; there's more information in this new article: Included in the items the German army allowed humanitarian groups to distribute in...

Committee Considers Changes to Cybersecurity Research and Development
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...

Goby Goes Deep
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...

HCIR 2009 Accepted Submissions
From The Noisy Channel

HCIR 2009 Accepted Submissions


IBM Global CIO Study Promotes Analytics
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...

More Machine Vision
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...

Decline of Cursive
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...

Mind Your Own Business (Model)
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...

USACM Looks Back at FY 2009
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...

? As Simple As Possible, And No More
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...

Eliminating Externalities in Financial Security
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...

Transparent Text Symposium: Day 2
From The Noisy Channel

Transparent Text Symposium: Day 2


The Secunia Personal Software Inspector
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...

Qwaq Becomes Teleplace
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

Tomorrow I will be speaking at an informal, but high energy Paris conference, called (somewhat predictably) Paris 2.0. The conference takes a total of four days...

Enhancing user interaction with first person user interface
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...

Interfaces Magazine interviews Donald Norman
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...

Hacking Two-Factor Authentication
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...
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