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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
Important IP Case
For those of you not following the Apple-Samsung case going on right now, it's fascinating. Since I do expert witness work, it's interesting to me from that perspective...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wave and Pay via Cheap Chips
Cheap printable chips have always been mentioned as solutions for making RFID ubiquitous. Now a cheap chips example for the 'wave and pay' revolution, that isIn...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
The Computing Innovation Fellows Project
In early 2009, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), with the support of the National Science Foundation (NSF), launched the Computing Innovation Fellows Project...
From Schneier on Security
An Analysis of Apple's FileVault 2
This is an analysis of Apple's disk encryption program, FileVault 2, that first appeared in the Lion operating system. Short summary: they couldn't break it....
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How To Read Code
We don’t teach students how to read code. Actually we don’t event teach them that they should read code for the most part. The closest we get is sample code inprettyprint...
From The Eponymous Pickle
PureFlex Expert System for IT Operations
I worked on several large scale expert systems applications during the AI drive of the 1990s. One of the areas we specifically examined was the configuration of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retail Mobile Payments Networks
In CWorld: Continued progress in retail payment networks. " ... More that a dozen retailers including Best Buy, Walmart, Target and 7-Eleven have joined forces...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
First Person: Maja Matarić, “the Social Roboticist”
University of Southern California computer scientist and neuroscientist Maja Matarić is the subject of an interview appearing in today’s Nature. On the eve of the...
From Schneier on Security
Lousy Password Security on Tesco Website
Good post, not because it picks on Tesco but because it's filled with good advice on how not to do it wrong.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
CSTA Cyber Security Poster Under Development
In recent months the federal government has expressed increasing concern about our cybersecurity, that is, with our ability to protect the complex computing and...
From Apophenia
What Anti-Trafficking Advocates Can Learn from Sex Workers: The Dynamics of Choice, Circumstance, and Coercion
For the last year, I’ve been trying to get my head around different aspects of human trafficking and the commercial sexual exploitation of minors. I’ve been meeting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data and Optimal Pricing
From TDWI: Optimal pricing is a classical problem, used in retail in some form since the 1960s. Having more data can make it more accurate and useful.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Product Linkage with a Social Game
A kind of linkage we explored as far back as the introduction of SimCity. Now Johnson & Johnson links products with The Sims. A good example of product - game...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Expert Press
Just brought to my attention. The Business Expert Press. Which publishes short, inexpensive, practical and accessible books on key business topics. In E-book...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Passive Quality Recruiting Networks
This GigaOM piece made me think more broadly about how social networks can be passively recruited. It used to be that it was always better to get more about you...
From Schneier on Security
Sexual Harassment at DefCon (and Other Hacker Cons)
Excellent blog post by Valerie Aurora about sexual harassment at the DefCon hackers conference. Aside from the fact that this is utterly reprehensible behavior...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computer Science Course Now Online at the Khan Academy
Last month at the Computing Research Association’s (CRA) biennial Snowbird Conference, a session titled “Reflections on Teaching Massive Online Open Courses” featured...
From Schneier on Security
Liars and Outliers on Special Discount
Liars and Outliers has been out since late February, and while it's selling great, I'd like it to sell better. So I have a special offer for my regular readers...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Try Kinect at your K-12 School
Capturing students' interest...
From The Eponymous Pickle