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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
Poll: Americans Like the TSA
Gallup has the results: Despite recent negative press, a majority of Americans, 54%, think the U.S. Transportation Security Administration is doing either an excellent...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Social Sciences
In the Edge: I was brought up in the hard sciences, so was always skeptical of how the fuzzy social sciences could be quantified in a meaningful way. But asNicholas...
From Wild WebMink
Dentdale
We spent the last two days in Dentdale (in the Yorkshire Dales National Park) following my talk at OggCamp. Here’s a taste of what it was like:
From Schneier on Security
Is iPhone Security Really this Good?
Simson Garfinkel writes that the iPhone has such good security that the police can't use it for forensics anymore: Technologies the company has adopted protect...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Day of the "Tech" Girl
October 11, 2012 is the first ever International Day of the Girl Child. The United Nations set this date aside to recognize that empowerment of and investment in...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Cheating Or Mastering?
An (un)intended consequence of on-line learning? src Sebastian Thrun is a co-founder of Udacity, one of the several new companies that are involved in on-line learning...
From The Eponymous Pickle
iPhone Rumors from RecordedFuture
Chris Holden, of RecordedFuture, the forward looking search engine that semantically interprets future mentions of information on public and private webs, sends...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
“Health IT for You”
The Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) — which in fall 2009 launched the Strategic...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Highlights: “What Makes Paris Look Like Paris?”
We all identify cities by certain attributes, such as building architecture, street signage, even the lamp posts and parking meters dotting the sidewalks. Now there’s...
From Computational Complexity
Fellow blogger Abie Flaxma named Top Innovator!
(Guest post from William Heisel, Assistant Director for External Relations, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, 2301 5th Avenue...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile Telepresence
A slick looking idea that combines a robotic base with the telepresence idea. How practical is unclear. We examined a warehouse tracking idea that used Segways...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tablets and Service Flexibility
Obvious feature. Having a mobile device with a larger screen that's easy to show and to the workplace, makes selling and service easier to do. It also makes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented Reality Contact Lenses
Taking the idea of augmented vision away from glasses and into the contact lens. In the Financial Post. " ... Innovega is developing a contact lens called the...
From Schneier on Security
Help Cryptanalyze Gauss
Kaspersky is looking for help decrypting the Gauss payload.
From Putting People First
The first Informal Economy Symposium in Barcelona – October 12, 2012
HOW WILL the informal economy impact the global business landscape? The landscape of the Informal Economy is vast – from street vending to P2P networks, from piracy...
From The Noisy Channel
Matt Lease: Recent Adventures in Crowdsourcing and Human Computation
Today we had the pleasure of hosting UT-Austin professor Matt Lease at LinkedIn to give a talk on his “Recent Adventures in Crowdsourcing and Human Computation“...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dancing on the Edge of Truth
David Carr in the NYT: On recent plagiarism events. As 'journalists' we all aggregate, combine, co-create and sit on the work of those that have come before...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 20 August 2012
Back from vacation and trying to catch up with things. I had over 450 unread email messages in spite of doing some triage over the vacation so if I haven’t gotten...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pricing Strategy in a Recession
An Interesting Article on P&G's Pricing Strategy and options in a post recessionary period. " ... The Wall Street Journal has reported that Procter & Gamble...
From Schneier on Security