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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
How Powerful were the Apollo Computers?
With the anniversary underway, its fun to consider the power of the guidance and systems computers during the Apollo days. Very primitive indeed. My phone is far...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of July 20
July 21 Hearing: The Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security and Citizenship of the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on changes to employment...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Computer Science Certification-Why We Need to Care
First, I would like to encourage all of you to read the CSTA publication: Ensuring Exemplary Teaching in an Essential Discipline: Addressing the Crisis in Computer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neuro Revolution Book
From the Lucid Systems blog, a short look at new book by Zack Lynch and Byron Laursen called The Neuro Revolution. To be released on July 21. Looks to be interesting...
From CERIAS Blog
Beware SQL injections due to missing prepared statement support in libraries
Just because your library allows you to specify an SQL query and the data separately, doesn't mean that it's safe. Imagine this scenario. You read that prepared...
From CERIAS Blog
Beware SQL injections due to fake prepared statement support
So, you read that prepared statements are a good way to avoid SQL injection, because the database is told explicitly and separately what is the code and what is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cloned Dogs
Although a bit off the usual topic here, I find this interesting. Dogs cloned from trained dogs are being used in a drug sniffing test. If successful, this would...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Networks Spill Your Secrets
Interesting piece on the security of social networks. And the full paper, Google authors.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Self Service Wine Kiosks
In Storefronbacktalk: Pennsylvania looks at self service wine kiosks with face recognition and integrated breathalyzer. I like trying new integrated kiosk sensors...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Keeping Track of Your Knowledge
Just took another look at TheBrain, a graphical means of storing and manipulating your knowledge. A form of mind-map. Jerry Michalski introduced me to it. Explored...
From Putting People First
Libraries turn page to thrive in digital age
The Globe and Mail newspaper of Canada looks at the future of libraries: Long the subject of warnings that the Internet would spell their demise, public libraries...
From Putting People First
The crowd is wise (when it
According to the New York Times, evidence suggests that crowdsourcing succeeds when it
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-07-18
Big Brother Amazon Remotely Deletes Purchased Copies of 1984 and Animal Farm From Thousands of Kindles No, this is not from The...
From Putting People First
Technology for more than one language, please
Technological tools are not made for people who speak more than one language, and there are many of us: immigrants, travellers, polyglots, emerging market facilitators...
From Putting People First
Book: Human-Computer Interaction
Human-Computer Interaction: Development Process (Series: Human Factors and Ergonomics) by Andrew Sears and Julie A. Jacko (Editors) CRC Press, March 2, 2009 Hardcover...
From Return 42;
Smalltalk-like Message Passing in JavaScript
Every time I am programming something in Objective-C, I just love the way the languages makes use of Smalltalk-like message passing. Also being able to send messages...
From Putting People First
Creating one
Tyler Cowen (Wikipedia), a professor of economics at George Mason University, has written a thought-provoking piece for Fast Company, that is many ways highly complementary...
From CERIAS Blog
Other cybersecurity legislation in the U.S.
In response to my last post, several people have pointed out to me some other initiatives before Congress. Here are some brief comments on a few of them, basedThomas...
From The Eponymous Pickle