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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 Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Windows 8 Release Preview Released
Yesterday Microsoft announced that Windows 8 Release Preview is now available for download in 14 languages. This is the final pre-release, and includes Windows...
From Schneier on Security
The Vulnerabilities Market and the Future of Security
Recently, there have been several articles about the new market in zero-day exploits: new and unpatched computer vulnerabilities. It's not just software companies...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Early Details About DARPA
A number of news outlets have begun covering Plan X, a new five-year, $110 million cyberwarfare research program that the
From Putting People First
Ethnographic research in a world of big data
Reacting to the Wired Magazine article that suggests that
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cisco Provides Mobile Forecast
Some interesting stats from Cisco on the increasing use of mobile and how it is driving internet traffic. A tidal wave is rising. " ... The
From The Eponymous Pickle
Excellence in Retailing Prize
The second annual Hub Prize competition, honoring excellence in the retail experience, is now underway and will run through July 31. Honored entries will be featured...
From Schneier on Security
Tax Return Identity Theft
I wrote about this sort of thing in 2006 in the UK, but it's even bigger business here: The criminals, some of them former drug dealers, outwit the Internal Revenue...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How do they know they are interested?
Or more importantly how do students know that they are NOT interested in computer science? As I mentioned recently I had a conversation with Mike Zamansky from...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Data alignment for speed: myth or reality?
Compilers align data structures so that if you read an object using 4 bytes, its memory address is divisible by 4. There are two reasons for data alignment: Some...
From Putting People First
Facebook threatens to
Andrew Keen, a British-American entrepreneur and the author of “The Cult of the Amateur” and “Digital Vertigo”, tells CNN why he believes that Facebook is stealing...
From Putting People First
My life as me
Ethnographic research by the Ericsson User Experience Lab, in collaboration with Trendethnography, aimed to discover unconscious behaviour related to health and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bring Your Own Devices
An acronym I have just learned: BYOD, bring your own devices. The policy of companies allowing employees to use their own devices for internal use. The practice...
From Computational Complexity
17x17: Paper that solved it available!/A contest inspired by it!/NPC result inspired by it!
Three new 17×17 items: The paper (and some sequels) that SOLVED the 17×17 problem and the 17×18 problem are now available here. (I can't seem to link to the page...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Money
An impressive special report in IEEE Spectrum on the Future of Money. With emphasis on the near future direction of electronic payment methods. Are we in the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Finding Your Smile
An idea related to previous work at MIT to determine how people reacted to ideas, products and interaction. We examined this previously to determine how people...
From Schneier on Security
Bar Code Switching
A particularly clever form of retail theft -- especially when salesclerks are working fast and don't know the products -- is to switch bar codes. This particular...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Science Summit Videos
A number of videos from the Data Science Summit via Greenplum that are worth examining. Useful selection from 2011 as well: The few I have looked at so far...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Why we Lie
Why we Lie. by Dan Ariely. Why we do, and how he has experimented with methods to increase and decrease the likelihood of the lie. As usual a thought provoking...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wearable Computing
In the WSJ: More on wearable computing solutions like Google Glasses. A favorite topic based on our own experiments. Inevitable? " ... Some computer scientists...
From Schneier on Security