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Tabnapping: A New Phishing Attack
From Schneier on Security

Tabnapping: A New Phishing Attack

Aza Raskin describes a new phishing attack: taking over a background tab on a browser to trick people into entering in their login credentials. Clever....

You Can Rename My Family for.....
From My Biased Coin

You Can Rename My Family for.....

An interesting article in today's Crimson about the background to the announcement that Harvard's School of Public Health will be re-named the Harvard T. H. Chan...

WikiLeaks Spy Files
From Schneier on Security

WikiLeaks Spy Files

WikiLeaks has organized the trove of documents about corporations aiding government surveillance around the world. It's worth wandering around through all this...

Call for Proposals: Creating Visions for Computing Research
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Call for Proposals: Creating Visions for Computing Research

The mission of Computing Research Association’s (CRA) Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to catalyze the computing research community and enable the pursuit...

On a Robot as Your Boss
From The Eponymous Pickle

On a Robot as Your Boss

Nice article in K@W:  The scenario of how robots could be used in close collaboration and real autonomy have been researched.  Closing the loop on measures that...

Soft Starfish Robots
From The Eponymous Pickle

Soft Starfish Robots

More practical that models that use stiff bodies?  Unclear, but an interesting play ... " ... The bots undulate and walk using compressed air that is forced in...

Whole Foods Accepts Apple Pay
From The Eponymous Pickle

Whole Foods Accepts Apple Pay

Continuing to follow efficient and secure digital wallet ideas.  Here a new development with major players. " ... Whole Foods Market Inc. will be among the first...

Referendums and sovereignty
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Referendums and sovereignty

In a few weeks, the Scots will get to vote to determine whether Scotland becomes its own country. As a middle aged Quebecker, I spent much of my youth hearing about...

Classic AI Resources Online
From The Eponymous Pickle

Classic AI Resources Online

I see that Georgia Tech is offering a new course on AI and Cognitive systems.  And one of the books of readings is available free online.  This is the same book...

Disruptive Innovation and Market Leaders
From The Eponymous Pickle

Disruptive Innovation and Market Leaders

In Knowledge@Wharton:  How does disruptive innovation effect market leaders?  Not unexpected results, will be interesting to see some numbers." ... a study soon...

Advanced Analytics in Insurance
From The Eponymous Pickle

Advanced Analytics in Insurance

Article from  McKinsey:  " ... Advanced analytics can transform how insurers do business, but realizing its potential requires complex, large-scale organizational...

Safeplug Security Analysis
From Schneier on Security

Safeplug Security Analysis

Good security analysis of Safeplug, which is basically Tor in a box. Short answer: not yet....

Fun With Code Monkeys
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Fun With Code Monkeys

In industry demos I have worked on over the years the people who enter code as part of a demo, usually with someone else explaining what they are doing, are referred...

Wi-Fi Jammer
From Schneier on Security

Wi-Fi Jammer

A device called Cyborg Unplugged can be configured to prevent any Wi-Fi connection: Oliver notes on the product's website that its so-called "All Out Mode" -- which...

Machine Learning Future
From The Eponymous Pickle

Machine Learning Future

Interview with machine learning expert David Blei.  " ... I think that one of the next breakthroughs in modern machine learning and statistics will involve observational...

Moving Portraits
From The Eponymous Pickle

Moving Portraits

In CACM:  Augmentation to storytelling?   A Vimeo demonstration.We present an approach for generating face animations from large image collections of the same person...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

A Challenge From Dyson

A reversal question Freeman Dyson celebrated his birthday last December. He is world famous for his work in both physics and mathematics. Dyson has proved, in work...

Can I Look That Up?
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Can I Look That Up?

The other day a student wanted to add something to a program using functionality we had not covered in class. His question to me was “Can I Google how to do that...

Visual Control of Big Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Visual Control of Big Data

Visual Control of Big Data - MIT    Very interesting new development." ... The Database Group at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory has...

From Computational Complexity

A Statistical oddity ?

 I keep a list of people that are famous-to-me  that are old so that if someone dies I won't be surprised. When Lauren Bacall died  recently I  (1) knew who she...
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