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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
Techniques in Sentiment Analysis
In CACM: Excellent overview piece on the subject. The abstract itself has interest: " ... Sentiment analysis (or opinion mining) is defined as the task of finding...
From CERIAS Blog
Keynote: Christopher Painter, Coordinator for Cyber Issues, U.S. Department of State (Summary)
Thursday, April 4th, 2013 Summary by Kelley Misata As Christopher Painter, Coordinator for Cyber Issues within the US Department of State, began his keynote address...
From Wild WebMink
On Joining OIN
I signed up Meshed Insights as an OIN licensee, and was amazed when I told people how few people knew it existed. That was the origin of this week’s InfoWorld column...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Paper vs Screens
Sciam writes about the differences between reading on screens vs paper, provides some interesting resources, suggesting that " ... When it comes to intensivelyBut...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Software Developers – Apply to Join the White House “Hackathon” on June 1
The White House is accepting applications from software developers and hands-on technology experts to participate in a day of national service at the White House...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation
A connection pointed me to the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation lab. A very broad mix of capability areas. Reminding me of similar work at Procter & Gamble...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Illegal Squid Fishing
While we we're on the subject of squid fishing in Argentina, the country is dealing with foreign boats illegally fishing for squid inside its territorial waters...
From CERIAS Blog
Tech Talk #3: Stephen Elliot (Summary)
Thursday, April 4th, 2013 Associate Professor Stephen Elliott, Industrial Technology, Purdue University Director, Biometric Standards, Performance and Assurance...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bar Code Ticker
A Wired Article reminded me of the nonprofit organization GS1, which I worked with for years. Among many other things they establish bar code standards. The work...
From CERIAS Blog
Featured Commentary: The Honorable Mark Weatherford, DHS Deputy Under Secretary for Cybersecurity
Thursday April 4, 2013 Summary by Marquita A. Moreland During the introduction, Professor Spafford discussed Mark Weatherford's experience prior to becoming Deputy...
From CERIAS Blog
Panel 3: Security Education and Training (Panel Summary)
Thursday, April 4th, 2013 Panel Members: Diana Burley, Associate Professor of Human and Organizational Learning, George Washington University Melissa Dark, Professor...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Writing Apps to Empower Girls and Help the World
There has been a lot of discussion lately about the dearth of computer scientists in the workforce, and the corollary, the need to teach computer science to help...
From CERIAS Blog
Panel 2: NSTIC, Trusted Identities and the Internet (Panel Summary)
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013 Panel Members: Cathy Tilton, VP Standards and Technology, Daon Solutions Elisa Bertino, Professor, Computer Science and CERIAS Fellow...
From Computational Complexity
You should apply for STOC and/or CCC travel money (students)
Once again there is some money from ACM and from NSF for students to goto STOC, and I am the one to send the applications to. The link for info on how to apply...
From CERIAS Blog
Panel 1: Security Analytics, Analysis, and Measurement (Panel Summary)
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013 Panel Members: Alok Chaturvedi, Professor, Management, Purdue University Samuel Liles, Associate Professor, Computer and Information...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Informatics Education Report in Europe – they get it!
A joint report of Informatics Europe and the ACM Europe Working Group on Informatics Education was recently released. The report highlights what is currently being...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data Applications Survey
Interesting survey of applications. " ... While most companies intend to invest in big data technologies, a lack of human resources and know-how keeps them from...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
When is Augmented Reality the Right Choice?
Last fall, we published a paper about augmented reality, cognitive theories, and learning. I previously wrote about the design advantages of AR; these give insight...
From Schneier on Security
Remotely Hijacking an Aircraft
There is a lot of buzz on the the Internet about a talk at the Hack-in-the Box conference by Hugo Teso, who claims he can hack in to remotely control an airplane's...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson