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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
Massive MIMO Cryptosystem
New paper: "Physical-Layer Cryptography Through Massive MIMO." Abstract: We propose the new technique of physical-layer cryptography based on using a massive MIMO...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
AP Computer Science or AP Art History
The news came across my social media links that last year more students took the Advanced Placement Art History exam than took the AP Computer Science exam. Given...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Divorcing Your Job
Steve King in his Small Business Labs, points me to this blog by Ayelet Baron about your relationship with your employment. Nicely done view of jobs and our dealing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bring Your Own Devices
In the APQC Blog: Getting prepared for BYOD. A good overview. Gartner predicts that half of organizations will move to a mandatory bring your own device (BYOD)...
From Schneier on Security
Insecurities in the Linux /dev/random
New paper: "Security Analysis of Pseudo-Random Number Generators with Input: /dev/random is not Robust, by Yevgeniy Dodis, David Pointcheval, Sylvain Ruhault, Damien...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Glue: Stick Out From the Crowd
Stick out from the Crowd: " ... Glue is a unique tool that enables you to present yourself in a complete, compelling, and informative way. .. " Reexamining this...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Decision Support Intuition
In the Decision Support Blog: A new App that aims to make your intuition better. Skeptical of that, but the thought to take decision making beyond the rationally...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data not a Holy Grail
Messy, says an article in Forbes. The dangers to privacy, and the buy-in to magical powers to solve problems. Like any new tool, be cautious about the hype, and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cloud Prediction and Text
In GigaOM Turing prediction engines towards text. The integration of text and numeric analytcs is rare. " ... Machine learning startup BigML now supports...
From Putting People First
New qualitative research report on tablet use in UK schools
Tablets for Schools, a UK campaign organisation that seeks to “prove the categorical case of tablets in schools”, has just published its second qualitative research...
From Computational Complexity
Who controls what is taught- the dept or the students?
There is a debate about the questions: To what extent do we give them what they NEED? what they WANT? These questions permeate many other discussions of education...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
AAAS S&T Policy Fellowships: A Call for “Big Data & Analytics” Experts
The following is a special contribution to the CCC blog by Peter Z. Revesz, 2012-14 AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the U.S. Department of Defense....
From Schneier on Security
Fingerprinting Burner Phones
In one of the documents recently released by the NSA as a result of an EFF lawsuit, there's discussion of a specific capability of a call records database to identify...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 14 October 2013
Last week was Leif Erikson Day. Today in the US we celebrate some Italian guy who came to North America later. So I have no school. I’ll take it. A lot of stuff...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Supermarket Apps Working
I had a conversation with someone a few weeks ago about the difference in engagement quality between loyalty cards and store smartphone apps. We also discussed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Identifying Your Phone in Seconds
In SF Gate: Their accelerometer identifies smartphones in seconds. Novel approach, privacy implications? "... The accelerometer enables, among other things,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ohio DOE Education Advisory Panel
Recently joined the Ohio DOE Education Advisory Panel. Which introduced me to the executive network of MBA Research. A " .... Not-for-profit, research-based support...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cisco and the Internet of Everything
Cisco moves forward again. And a link to their study. " ... Mobile? Wearables? Small change. For several years, Cisco has been thinking bigger, when the Internet...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data: A Revolution that Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think
Book newly on the list of things to read: Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think by Viktor Mayer-Schonberger, and Kenneth Cukier...
From The Eponymous Pickle