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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 My Biased Coin
Harvard Humanities
There's been a mild hubbub toward the end of the week here, due to a report and some articles (Boston Globe, WSJ) that the number of students majoring at the humanities...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Electronic Contact Lenses
In Technology Review: Another non new idea. Brought to the forefront by all the other embed-able ideas like Glass, and even retinal implants. Would take away...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rapid Prototyping for Design
MJ Perry points to a video about the use of 3D printing and rapid prototyping for design by an automobile company. Instructive piece.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Are We Nodes in the Internet of Things?
In GigaOM: Will we all become nodes on the Internet of Things? Our things may be, we are heading quickly in that direction. But please retain your own individuality...
From Wild WebMink
Don’t Stop With The Trolls
My article in InfoWorld this week rounded up the news of the White House initiative to deal with patent trolls and repeated some proposals I’ve made before on other...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Focus the Technology on the Purpose
On the business purpose. Don't just try to stay out ahead of the technologies as they evolve. Almost all technologies are developments of previous ideas. Not...
From Apophenia
meandering thoughts on the NSA scandal
As an activist, a geek, and a privacy scholar, I’ve been watching the NSA scandal unfold with a mixture of curiosity, outrage, and skepticism. I don’t feel as though...
From The Eponymous Pickle
CIOs Promoting Gamification
An overplayed piece. Using game strategy can be useful for internal and externally facing capabilities. Consider it a deeper, more psychological part of the user...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart E-Commerce
Wal-Mart CEO predicts that their E-Commerce sales will be $10 Billion this year. Continued online surge from traditional retailing.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Combining Bio Sensor Tools
It makes sense to think of using multiple bio sensors and combining their capabilities, which is what these firms have done, worth a look. " ... Facial expression...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Comic
A squid comic about the importance of precise language in security warnings. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Comments on Data
In Google Blog: Commenting on how they deal with government information requests.
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Consumer Advocates and Industry Endorse Cellphone Unlocking Bill at House Judiciary Committee Hearing
A legislative proposal to allow consumers to unlock their cellphones garnered support from consumer advocates, wireless industry executives, and a coalition of...
From Schneier on Security
Audio Interview with Me
In this podcast interview, I talk about security, power, and the various things I have been thinking about recently.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Costco vs Amazon in Grocery
In BusinessWeek: " ... Amazon is expanding in the grocery business, which could create a headache for CEO Jeff Bezos' onetime mentor, Costco Wholesale CEO Jim...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Cameron Wilson -> Code.org
Cameron Wilson, long-time Director of Public Policy for ACM, has been given a special assignment for 12 months to work at Code.org as Chief Operating Officer and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Think Like a Consumer
In AdAge: Think less like an executive, more like a consumer. Agree, an executive is not your typical consumer. In the many innovation center tours I gave for...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Unboxing GoldieBlox
Way back when, I missed out on the Roominate Kickstarter campaign, and I regretted it afterwards. So when GoldieBlox was proposed, I jumped on it. Plus, $30 to...
From Schneier on Security
A Really Good Article on How Easy it Is to Crack Passwords
Ars Technica gave three experts a 16,000-entry encrypted password file, and asked them to break them. The winner got 90% of them, the loser 62% -- in a few hours...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson