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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 Female Perspective of Computer Science
'Go Code Girl' Processing Workshop Registration is Open!
I'm pumped that registration is open for a workshop I'll be leading April 20 at the University of Ottawa. It's called Go Code Girl and it's going to be a programming...
From Schneier on Security
The Dangers of Surveillance
Interesting article, "The Dangers of Surveillance," by Neil M. Richards, Harvard Law Review, 2013. From the abstract: ....We need a better account of the dangers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neuroscience and Innovation
In Forbes: " ... Our brains naturally look for patterns in the world around us, according to Janet Crawford, principal of Cascadance who is working to apply neuroscience...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Is Big Data about Big?
A nice short piece about the reality of the value of data. The most important watchout of all in this space. Should be the most obvious, but is often forgotten...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
President Establishes Voting Commission; Focus Will Include Voting Technology
As Renee mentioned, President Obama issued an Executive Order establishing the Presidential Commission on Election Administration. The Commission was a promise...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Alleged Spontaneity of Viral and Tremor
My former colleague Kevin Ashton writes about the 'Harlem Shake', which I admit I just noticed a few weeks ago. My connectedness is more about the technical than...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Accessible Voting Technology Research Workshop, April 1-2
The U.S. Election Assistance Commission and the National Institute of Standards and Technology will be holding a two-day workshop on April 1-2 to explore current...
From Schneier on Security
New RC4 Attack
This is a really clever attack on the RC4 encryption algorithm as used in TLS. We have found a new attack against TLS that allows an attacker to recover a limited...
From Putting People First
Debate in Milan: The Long View of Interaction Design
The people behind the upcoming Interaction14 conference invite you to attend a panel discussion in Milan on the “Long View of Interaction Design”. On Monday 8 April...
From Putting People First
The next Big UI Idea: gadgets that adapt to your skill
As gadgets get more complicated, UI’s must be able to teach their users over time. Philip Battin shows how flow can be used to improve the user experience in interactive...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Happy 100th Birthday, Paul Erdős
Fixing our own Erdős discrepancy By permission of Fan Chung Graham, artist. Paul Erdős—Erdős Pál in Hungarian—would have been 100 this past Tuesday. He was a force...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
The National Science Foundation Launches Two Supercomputers
This week, the National Science Foundation launched two new supercomputers. Here’s what Farnam Jahanian, head of NSF’s Directorate for Computer and Information...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Outsourcing Delivery
Not a new idea. Delivery is expensive, yet there are many people who would welcome the ability t deliver items in their spare time for a small patment. Here,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Aimia Helping Kellogg for Loyalty Data
Aimia, mentioned here previously working with Kellogg. Interesting in particular because it is a work with a CPG manufacturer rather than a retailer: " ......
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile Employees Driving Cloud
Makes sense. Which also increases the need to make sure that the connections are secure and reliable.
From Computational Complexity
Counting Descriptions- a ``new'' complexity class
Let nσ(w) is the number of σ's in w. We often ask our students about languages like { w | na(w) = 2nb(w) } (CFL but not REG). Lets formally define languages that...
From Schneier on Security
Unwitting Drug Smugglers
This is a story about a physicist who got taken in by an imaginary Internet girlfriend and ended up being arrested in Argentina for drug smuggling. Readers of...
From Putting People First
Is Open Government working?
In an insightful blog post, Reboot principal Panthea Lee asks if open government initiatives make citizens more informed and engaged, and make governments more...
From Putting People First
What can ethnography bring to the study of deliberative democracy?
Open government initiatives offer new, often technologically enabled avenues for civic participation. But which populations have the access and motivation to use...
From The Eponymous Pickle