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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 U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Cybersecurity Framework Now At Discussion Draft Stage
While cybersecurity legislation slowly inches forward in Congress, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is moving faster in implementing its...
From Computational Complexity
Did YOU think the NSA could factor fast?
Before the recent revelations about the NSA (see Lances Post and Scott's post )I would tell my class, when teaching P and NP, We have very good reasons to think...
From The Eponymous Pickle
VisiRule: Sharable Know How
I am repeating part of a post from last year below, based on my reexamination of expert systems style applications:" ... expert systems to understand and improve...
From Schneier on Security
Surreptitiously Tampering with Computer Chips
This is really interesting research: "Stealthy Dopant-Level Hardware Trojans." Basically, you can tamper with a logic gate to be either stuck-on or stuck-off by...
From Schneier on Security
Tom Tomorrow from 1994
This was published during the battle about the Clipper Chip, and is remarkably prescient.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tiny Robotic Recon Drones in Industry
The grist of many a science fiction story, tiny flying robotics that can capture information. Studied these for information capture tasks in remote plant and warehouse...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple Indoor GPS System
A general description, and praise for their indoor location system plan. I was heavily involved in these kinds of approaches for retail use and tested several"...
From The Eponymous Pickle
When Core Values are Strategic
Received via the P&G Alumni Network, to be read, their description below.When Core Values Are Strategic: How the Basic Values of Procter & Gamble Transformed Leadership...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
To solve hard problems, you need to use bricolage
People who think that they can design efficient solutions in the abstract, effectively believe in Oracles. That is, they somehow believe that from their desk, and...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of September 16
September 18 Markup: The Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection and Security Technologies Subcommittee of the House Homeland Security Committee will review two...
From Putting People First
Experientia and Intel present at EPIC 2013 in London
EPIC 2013, the conference on “ethnographic praxis in industry”, kicked off in London today, with experts from around the world gathering for the three-day conference...
From Schneier on Security
Reforming the NSA
Leaks from the whistleblower Edward Snowden have catapulted the NSA into newspaper headlines and demonstrated that it has become one of the most powerful government...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 16 September 2013
Well I was able to blog more often last week. Paying a bit for it as I had a ton of grading to do over the weekend. When inspiration (or something that feels like...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retailers and Private Label Packaging
In Foodprocessing: " ... As retailers put more emphasis on private-label products, they are relying on packaging that sets their merchandise apart, instead of mimicking...
From Schneier on Security
Take Back the Internet
Government and industry have betrayed the Internet, and us. By subverting the Internet at every level to make it a vast, multi-layered and robust surveillanceWe...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Food Inflation in US
A piece by MJ Perry on Food Inflation and Prices in the US. Inflation in food has been down considerably since the 70s. Further instructive statistics about food...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Women in Computing–An Image To Think About
Picture from the Facebook page of www.ilovesmartwomen.com
From The Eponymous Pickle
Army Visualization
The US army / SAIC is using Tableau for Data visualization. This appears to be a descriptive visualization, as opposed to an analytic example " ... "We have...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Project10X: Semantic Research
Brought to my attention. Semantic analysis work is always of interest. " .... Mills Davis is founder and managing director of Project10X — a research consultancy...
From Schneier on Security