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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
Court Orders TSA to Answer EPIC
Year ago, EPIC sued the TSA over full body scanners (I was one of the plantiffs), demanding that they follow their own rules and ask for public comment. The court...
From The Eponymous Pickle
No Boss Environments
Wharton examines the no-boss environment. An unachievable utopia? Or the future of a strong social, but also measurable environment?
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Online Education: Is it All it's Cracked Up To Be?
MOOC's —Massive Open Online Courses — are all the rage these days. These are systems that allow hundreds of thousands of learners from around the world to take...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Behavior vs Technology
In Fastcompany: A useful thought, which we used with regard to setting and testing contexts that changed behavior. " ... Behavior is the unknowable variable in...
From Schneier on Security
Hotel Door Lock Vulnerability
The attack only works sometimes, but it does allow access to millions of hotel rooms worldwide that are secured by Onity brand locks. Basically, you can read the...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Construct 2 - the HTML5 game maker
I’ve been experimenting with Construct 2 from Scirra the last few days. Construct 2 is a program from creating HTML 5 games. What really got my interest was that...
From Apophenia
Participatory Culture: What questions do you have?
Henry Jenkins, Mimi Ito, and I have embarked on an interesting project for Polity. Through a series of dialogues, we’re hoping to produce a book that interrogates...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Pictures and Big Insight
In Google Research: Big Pictures with big messages. How do we deliver big data onto a palette that makes the the message clear? Easier with geographical maps...
From Computational Complexity
MOOCs
I haven't posted in about a month. A combination of traveling, vacation, moving to Atlanta and getting started as chair. I appreciate why Michael Mitzenmacher stopped...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Judea Pearl’s Turing Award Lecture at AAAI-12
Judea Pearl received the 2011 ACM A. M. Turing Award “for fundamental contributions to artificial intelligence through the development of a calculus for probabilistic...
From Schneier on Security
Profile on Eugene Kaspersky
Wired has an interesting and comprehensive profile on Eugene Kaspersky. Especially note Kaspersky Lab's work to uncover US cyberespionage against Iran, Kaspersky's...
From The Noisy Channel
Hiring: Taking It Personally
As a manager, I’ve found that I mostly have two jobs: bringing great people onto the team, and creating the conditions for their success. The second job is the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAS on Big Data
Alison Bolen of the SASCom Blog aggregates a number of good thoughts and posts about the topic of big data.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Advancing Google Wallet
Google Wallet now accepts many card options. We move closer to the electronic wallet. Near universal capability is key. " ... The newest version of Google Wallet...
From Schneier on Security
Lone Shooters and Body Armor
The new thing about the Aurora shooting wasn't the weaponry, but the armor: What distinguished Holmes wasn't his offense. It was his defense. At Columbine, Harris...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Names New Connect & Develop Leader
On P&G's site ... more information here, including links to get your own ideas used by P&G:" ... Connect+Develop, the program that’s brought consumers a seriesAlso...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G's CIO and CEO : Digitizing the Enterprise
In CIO: Relationship between P&G's CEO and CIO in the big enterprise. An interview, the whole thing is instructive to read:" ... McDonald’s understanding of how...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
IBM, IEEE Challenge Students to “Make the World a Better Place”
IBM and IEEE have partnered to launch the Smarter Planet Challenge, seeking ”creative team-based student projects that can help students at any level learn about...
From Putting People First