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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
Cloaking Lenses
Ordinary lenses produce cloaking. Fascinating application that at one level is very easy to understand. Everyday applications?
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Fishing Moves North in California
Warmer waters are moving squid fishing up the California coast. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Learning or Cloning
Cognitive requires learning. At very least an intelligent system needs to be updated as its context changes. There are many kinds of learning. Passive, active,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Evolution of Computer Languages
In the CACM: A view of common computing languages. Interesting, but most likely for those that have used several. Non technical in that it deals with a view...
From Schneier on Security
Medical Records Theft and Fraud
There's a Reuters article on new types of fraud using stolen medical records. I don't know how much of this is real and how much is hype, but I'm certain that criminals...
From The Eponymous Pickle
An Online Right to be Forgotten
In the New Yorker, a non technical, very readable article about the 'right to be forgotten' on the Internet, which is being exercised now in Europe. Examples...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Seeking Assumption Free Data Science
Steve Miller on 'Freak Data Science', where freak means roughly assumption-free, understandable and useful. Always like that approach, and he has much to say on...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Teacher Collaboration
What do two college professors, two high school teachers and a pre-service teacher have in common? CSTA membership! I spent several enjoyable weeks this summer...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
James F. Kurose to head Computer & Information Science & Engineering Directorate
Dr. James F. Kurose, Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts (UMass), was named the next Assistant...
From The Eponymous Pickle
An Online Right to be Forgotten
In the New Yorker, a non technical, very readable article about the 'right to be forgotten' on the Internet, which is being exercised now in Europe. Examples...
From The Eponymous Pickle
UXMag and Psychology
Of interest, on psych and design, in user experience:" ... UX Magazine is a central, one-stop resource for everything related to user experience. We provide a steady...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tracking Data Use Online
From MIT, with possible use to understand data use and valuation. " ... Researchers in the Decentralized Information Group (DIG) at MIT’s Computer Science and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Computer Learning Neighborhoods from Images
An example of the ability to make a classification of an image by subtle attributes. Images are a form of unstructured data increasingly being found in large databases...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Secure, Trustworthy, Assured and Resilient Semiconductors and Systems (STARSS) Partnership
The National Science Foundation (NSF) and Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) announced nine research awards to 10 universities totaling nearly $4 million...
From Schneier on Security
Security Trade-offs of Cloud Backup
This is a good essay on the security trade-offs with cloud backup: iCloud backups have not eliminated this problem, but they have made it far less common. This...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cyber Security Lab Game
A laboratory for teaching online security concepts in the form of a simulation game. We created similar simulation games for teaching and option evaluation for...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
C++ and Java Together in CS2: Will it Be Great or a Disaster?
I've been trying something a little bit different for our CS2 class this semester. The course typically covers object-oriented programming in Java along with topics...
From Schneier on Security
Nasty Vulnerability found in Bash
It's a big and nasty one. Invariably we're going to see articles pointing at this and at Heartbleed and claim a trend in vulnerabilities in open-source software...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Company Gets Rid of Email
In FastCompany. I saw this direction proposed some time ago. At that time it was suggested that a wiki like structure would be set up, and any communication would...
From The Eponymous Pickle