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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 Daniel Lemire's Blog
Why do students pay for the research professors do?
Universities require their professors to publish research papers. Yet publishing your research has little to do with most of the teaching that goes on in universities...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: William Gilly, Squid Researcher
Good article. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
From Wild WebMink
PBX Project
I’ve written a bit about my holiday project to try the Raspberry Pi as a PBX over on InfoWorld today.
From Schneier on Security
I Seem to Be a Verb
From "The Insider's TSA Dictionary": Bruce Schneiered: (V, ints) When a passenger uses logic in order to confound and perplex an officer into submission. Ex: "A...
From Schneier on Security
Becoming a Police Informant in Exchange for a Lighter Sentence
Fascinating article. Snitching has become so commonplace that in the past five years at least 48,895 federal convicts -- one of every eight -- had their prison...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Who Uses Neuromarketing?
During the early days of our cognitive science work we often asked this question. Who among Fortune 500 companies have used techniques to measure and understand...
From The Eponymous Pickle
End of the Public Phone Network
In IEEE Spectrum: Will this system end by 2018? The 134 year old public phone network is dying. What are the implications of changes to the network and how...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predicting A Supply Chain Network of Fast Data
I don't normally like yearly predictions. But I found these to be thought provoking. They all deal with the long proposed suggestion that increasingly transparent...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Decepticons
Research at Ga Tech is using 'deception' methods used in nature to enhance behavioral models. Have always been interested in biological models. They have often...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The Future Belongs To The Creators
A lot of people are thinking about the future this time of year. I’ve got a few ideas myself. This is the year I’ve done a lot with apps on phones and tablets....
From Schneier on Security
Breaking Hard-Disk Encryption
The newly announced ElcomSoft Forensic Disk Decryptor can decrypt BitLocker, PGP, and TrueCrypt. And it's only $300. How does it work? Elcomsoft Forensic Disk...
From Computational Complexity
2012 Complexity Year in Review
As we turn our thoughts from Turing to Erdős, a look back at the complexity year that was. Written with help from co-blogger Bill Gasarch. The complexity result...
From Schneier on Security
Public Shaming as a Security Measure
In Liars and Outliers, I talk a lot about the more social forms of security. One of them is reputational. This post is about that squishy sociological security...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Changing Perceptions of Big Data
From Inside Analysis. Here I disagree in one sense and agree in another. . It is true that it has never entirely been about the size of the data. What we have...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On News Aggregation: Added Value Facts
In CACM: News aggregation is a common thing in the internet. Many sites and blogs find news in their specialty areas, and the results are redistributed to different...
From The Eponymous Pickle
$99 Tablet
Akin to the $99 laptop, the $99 tablet, which I wrote about in the enterprise some long time ago with the hope of getting some support to drive it world-wide. Is...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Reinventing American Manufacturing – The Role of Innovation
An excellent article by MIT’s Bill Bonvillian, just out in the MIT Press journal Innovations. Bill’s prescription: The U.S. must develop an integrated strategy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reorganizing the Web to Get Stuff Done
A big part of this is reorganizing search, a big component of our use of the Web. This article talks about that from the search engine Bing's perspective. Isee...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
The Importance of Mentoring
My school celebrated CS Ed Week with a visit from alumni who are working in CS-related careers. One alumnus spoke to my students over skype about his career in...
From The Eponymous Pickle