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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
Pinterest as Business Platform
Took a close look at Pinterest about a year ago. Was interested in a largely non-text way of communicating, especially in a strong story format. I was disappointed...
From Schneier on Security
More on the NSA Commandeering the Internet
If there's any confirmation that the U.S. government has commandeered the Internet for worldwide surveillance, it is what happened with Lavabit earlier this month...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Encrypting Cloud Data
Google decides to encrypt cloud data. A very good idea to do this in general. Cloud data is a target.
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
New Report on Computer Science Teacher Certification in the United States
Computer science teacher certification throughout the United States is “deeply flawed” and requires coordinated action by federal and state policymakers, education...
From Schneier on Security
How Many Leakers Came Before Snowden?
Assume it's really true that the NSA has no idea what documents Snowden took, and that they wouldn't even know he'd taken anything if he hadn't gone public. The...
From Schneier on Security
The Federal Trade Commission and Privacy
New paper on the FTC and its actions to protect privacy: Abstract: One of the great ironies about information privacy law is that the primary regulation of privacy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Patent Trolling Against Location Systems
In GigaOM: Lawsuits have been issued against Apple and others. The patent mentions systems that can determine and utilize their location. Should could have...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Sponsors Computational Sustainability Track at AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-13)
The following entry is a special contribution to this blog from Douglas H. Fisher, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Vanderbilt University. This year Doug...
From Putting People First
User-centred mobile app development in Kenya
The success of a mobile app – its high adoption rate and actual use – largely depends on the degree of involvement of the end user during the development stage....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unilever Crowd sourcing Shower Taking
Not too many details, but consumer goods giant is exploring crowdsourcing for future consumer need and product development. Using the online package eYeka. The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brain to Brain Connections
This progress at the U of Washington implies more. Once you can establish a brain to brain connection, you can also connect a brain to Internet to brain connection...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Skype Planning 3D Video
In Fast Company: Not sure this will be generally useful. Would prefer interface and quality improvements to Skype. Though in thinking it through it might be an...
From Putting People First
Seeing the elephant: defragmenting user research
“Forget Big Data — right now, our bigger problem is fragmented data that comes from siloed user research teams.” Just as we favor the research tools that we find...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kinect Launching a Surgical Revolution
Manipulating virtual images in no touch environments: " .... virtual images can be difficult to retrieve and manipulate. A surgeon can't use a mouse or keyboard...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovation Power of the Cloud
In Computing Now: Insightful piece on why cloud computing is linked to innovation. I admit that I started out thinking that the Cloud was simply an obvious tool...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
D Plus O Equals Do
Our 500th post comes with a non-Federal proposal Cropped from HeinOnline source. Barack Obama is the 44th President of the United States, and the 43rd person to...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Funding science: When bureaucrats get out of control
Throughout most of the world, scientists are almost entirely dependent on one source of funding: their government. So every few years (or more often), professors...
From Schneier on Security
Feds Target Polygraph-Beating Company
A company that teaches people how to beat lie detectors is under investigation.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Game Based Learning
Via the ACM: Digital Game-Based Learning. Abstract: Research published by University of Rochester neuroscientists C. Shawn Green and Daphne Bavelier has grabbed...
From Putting People First