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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
Swallowing Microchips for ID
Another sensor development. In this case for identification. But also for reading the brain? Overstatement I think. " ... “This pill has a small chip inside...
From Computational Complexity
Why Become a Professor
Someone took me to task because in November I posted that the CRA News had 50 pages of job ads but didn't note that very few of those ads specifically were searching...
From Wild WebMink
Input To UK Government
My input to the UK Government consultation on document formats: I believe it is imperative to have a single document format standard used as the benchmark for corresponding...
From Schneier on Security
Was the iOS SSL Flaw Deliberate?
Last October, I speculated on the best ways to go about designing and implementing a software backdoor. I suggested three characteristics of a good backdoor: low...
From Wild WebMink
Surveillance Impact Not Just Personal
Originally posted on Meshed Insights & Knowledge:In her post on ComputerWorld, Alexandra makes the excellent observation that the impact of surveillance is not...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
It’s OK To Make Mistakes
Me to a student the other day“Several other people made the same mistake. That is why I was able to spot it so quickly.” Invariably that statement gets a look of...
From Wild WebMink
Facebook’s Global Telco Dream
Originally posted on Meshed Insights & Knowledge:Maybe there’s more to the Facebook acquisition of WhatsApp than just the centralised consolidation of users and...![[Book] The Moment of Clarity](/system/assets/0000/1953/030209_Vanderbeeken_Mark_250.small_square.jpg?1476779420&1260281963)
From Putting People First
[Book] The Moment of Clarity
The Moment of Clarity: Using the Human Sciences to Solve Your Toughest Business Problems by Christian Madsbjerg, Mikkel Rasmussen Harvard Business Review Press...
From Putting People First
[Book] The City as Interface
The City as Interface How New Media Are Changing the City By Martijn de Waal nai010 Publishers 2014, 208 pages Digital and mobile media are changing the way urban...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Packaging Innovation
Interesting viewpoint piece on innovation in packaging in CPG. Understanding the context and consumer behavior interacting with packaging is a key function of"...
From Schneier on Security
ENTOURAGE: NSA Exploit of the Day
Today's item from the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) group implant catalog: ENTOURAGE (S//SI//REL) Direction Finding application operating on the HOLLOWPOINT...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
White House Announces New Manufacturing Innovation Institutes
This week, President Barack Obama announced two new public-private Manufacturing Innovation Institutes and launched the first of four new Manufacturing Innovation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New in Business Intelligence
GigaOM writes about new things in BI, a renaissance it implies. At least from the perspective of a VC. Ok, lots there I had not heard of, and the descriptions...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Mainstream Internet of Things
In MIIT Technology Review: Short piece on the mainstreaming of the IOT. I agree, starting in areas were sensors are needed to monitor and look for outliers. The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Grocery Bag as an Indicator
In HBS Working Knowledge: An interesting example. But also an example of lack of actual causality in an indicator as well. Still useful for understanding the multiple...
From Putting People First
What the tech business hasn’t yet grasped about human nature
Genevieve Bell, Intel’s in-house anthropologist, sees constants in our behavior that could mean big bucks for businesses that find a way to capitalize on them....
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CISE CAREER Proposal Writing Workshop
The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering(CISE) will hold a one-day CAREER proposal writing workshop...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fraud Detection Using Big Data
Using Big Data to Prevent Fraud: A fairly obvious application when you start to gather lots of operational data. See Zylab. " ... When it comes to data that...
From Schneier on Security
DDoSing a Cell Phone Network
Interesting research: Abstract: The HLR/AuC is considered to be one of the most important network elements of a 3G network. It can serve up to five million subscribers...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson