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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 Schneier on Security
HOWLERMONKEY: NSA Exploit of the Day
Today's item from the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) group implant catalog: HOWLERMONKEY (TS//SI//REL) HOWLERMONKEY is a custom Short to Medium rangehere...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Global Warming?
It snowed in Atlanta, and we are closed, for the foreseeable future—where is global warming? Atlanta is frozen. Here is what we looked like the other night. Today...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Meaning of Quality Assurance
This CW article led me to the meaning of QA ... " ... Long undervalued, quality assurance is in the limelight -- and QA pros in demand -- following the disaster...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Motivation via a Connected Cosumer
Quite obvious, people are always looking at the motivation of recommendations. Can we now get at the motivation more clearly? (In Supermarket News, requires registration...
From Schneier on Security
Side-Channel Attacks on Frog Calls
The male túngara frog Physalaemus pustulosus uses calls to attract females. But croaking also causes ripples in the water, which are eavesdropped on -- both by...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Media in the Enterprise
Charlene Li speaks on the topic, relating to a recent study: " .... Overall, we found that investment in headcount and infrastructure have steadily grown, as companies...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
To be smarter, try being crazier?
Many of us want to be original in our work. For researchers, it is a job requirement. For software programmers, it makes little sense to redo what others did. Many...
From Schneier on Security
Catalog of Snowden Revelations
This looks to be very good. Add that to these three indexes of NSA source material, and these two summaries. This excellent parody website has a good collection...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More on DeepMind and Google
In Recode: Google continues to add AI gems to its capabilities. Search is a part of learning, and thus enhanced by AI. We search by pattern visually, as well...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
CSTA 2014 Administration Impact Award Nominations Open
The Computer Science Teachers' Association, in partnership with Code.org, has established an award to recognize an administrator who has made an outstanding contribution...
From Computational Complexity
Snow Days
An unexpected snowstorm hits the city in the middle of a workday. The roads get hopelessly clogged and I'm lucky to get home--many others just abandoned theirguarantees...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Market Research in a Big Data World
In Knowledge@Wharton. An extensive and interesting pieceFinding a Place for Market Research in a Big Data, Tech-enabled WorldThanks to social media and other technology...
From Schneier on Security
GINSU: NSA Exploit of the Day
Today's item from the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) group implant catalog: GINSU (TS//SI//REL) GINSU provides software application persistence for the...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Presidential Commission Issues Recommendations on Improving Voting Experience
On January 22, the Presidential Commission on Election Administration issued the report requested of it by President Obama. Formed after reports of long lines...
From Schneier on Security
Trying to Value Online Privacy
Interesting paper: "The value of Online Privacy," by Scott Savage and Donald M. Waldman. Abstract: We estimate the value of online privacy with a differentiated...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Progress On The Jacobian Conjecture
More on the crypto approach to the Jacobian Conjecture Arno van Essen is one of the world experts on the Jacobian conjecture (JC)—we have discussed his work before...
From CERIAS Blog
Another Loss in the Community
I received news today that Yves Deswarte passed away on January 27th.Dr. Deswarte was a notable member of the computing community, with a career of 30+ years as...
From CERIAS Blog
Another Loss in the Community
I received news today that Yves Deswarte passed away on January 27th.Dr. Deswarte was a notable member of the computing community, with a career of 30+ years as...
From CERIAS Blog
Another Loss in the Community
I received news today that Yves Deswarte passed away on January 27th.Dr. Deswarte was a notable member of the computing community, with a career of 30+ years as...
From The Eponymous Pickle