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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 Schneier on Security
Replacing Alice and Bob
A proposal to replace cryptography's Alice and Bob with Sita and Rama: Any book on cryptography invariably involves the characters Alice and Bob. It is always...
From Computational Complexity
Things a Complexity Theorist Should Do At Least Once
A few weeks ago, Suresh wrote a post Things a TCSer should have done at least once with the caveat This list is necessarily algorithms-biased. I doubt you'll need...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cisco Location Analytics
In another move, Cisco is acquiring mobility analytics and Wifi network location player Thinksmart Technologies of Dublin. The company tracks the location of people...
From Wild WebMink
MySQL FUD Claim Needs Action, Not Words
A chance encounter at the OFE Summit in Brussels, coupled with a provocative statement by an Oracle VP, lead me to believe it’s time for Oracle to come out of...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Creativity In Computer Science
I was reading a blog post titled Creating creative portfolios by Deepa Muralidhar the other day that really got me thinking of this whole notion of creativity in...
From Putting People First
Aaron Marcus publishes (free) ebook about HCI in Sci-Fi
The Past 100 Years of the Future: Sci-Fi and HCI in Movies and Television by Aaron Marcus 2012 – 197 pages On 24 August 2012, AM+A published its first ebook, The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Value Added Showrooming
Good piece by David Bell of Wharton on Showrooming. " ... With the rise in popularity of smartphones and the proliferation of online retailers, showrooming -...
From Wild WebMink
Apparently the weather is getting cooler…
“Please can you find me a blanket as well?”, Welcome to Autumn. I’d sensed a chill in the air, but my cat confirmed it for me…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rules and Decision Management
The large enterprise can think about how to systematize their business processes and the rules that they use to make decisions. This has often been difficult for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook Commerce Successful for Small Retail
In CIO: The claim made here is that Facebook Commerce is becoming particularly successful for small businesses. " ... Second-quarter profits from Facebook stores...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Mozilla and NSF Announce First Round of Winners for Brainstorming Phase of Ignite Challenge
As we’ve previously blogged, Mozilla and the National Science Foundation (NSF) have teamed up for a challenge, called “Mozilla Ignite“, which focuses on the development...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Professional Development Benefits All
Recently, Rutgers University hosted a CS4HS workshop for K-12 CS educators. With the help of a grant from Google, Rutgers CS Department planned and hosted a two...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What About Small Data?
This is an other post along the lines of We Are Making Things Too Hard more than the more obvious Thinking About Databases. And there may perhaps be a bit of old...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
How Not To Prove Integer Factoring Is In P
A possible barrier to proofs that factoring is in polynomial time Mihalis Yannakakis is a Knuth Prize-winning complexity theorist and database expert. With Christos...
From Schneier on Security
Using Agent-Based Simulations to Evaluate Security Systems
Kay Hamacher and Stefan Katzenbeisser, "Public Security: Simulations Need to Replace Conventional Wisdom," New Security Paradigms Workshop, 2011. Abstract: Is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Mining for Drug Facts
In CACM: On the use of data mining to determine drug information about drugs Work out of Stanford University: " ... When people with high blood pressure start...
From Putting People First
Alok Nandi to chair Interaction14 – February 2014 in Amsterdam
The IxDA Board of Directors just announced that Alok Nandi will be Chair of Interaction14, to be held February, 2014 in Amsterdam in conjunction with Utrecht School...
From Putting People First
Designing for Mobile, Part 1: Information Architecture
Mobile devices come with a whole host of new constraints (and opportunities) for our designs. In this – the first part of her series on mobile design – Elaine McVicar...
From Putting People First
The magic of good service
THE customer is king. So some firms have started appointing chief customer officers (CCOs) to serve the king more attentively. These new additions to the (already...
From Putting People First