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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
"1234" and Birthdays Are the Most Common PINs
Research paper: "A birthday present every eleven wallets? The security of customer-chosen banking PINs," by Joseph Bonneau, Sören Preibusch, and Ross Anderson:...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
ACM/IEEE-CS Computer Science Curricula 2013 - Strawman draft
Over the weekend, the ACM/IEEE-CS Computer Science Curricula 2013 committee (of which I am a member) released the first public from this effort. (The announcement...
From Putting People First
Principles of Social Interaction Design: An Essay
Adrian Chan, social media expert and social interaction theorist at Gravity7, has written a long essay to collect his thoughts on social interaction design. “Imperfect...
From Putting People First
User experience design is dead; Long live user experience
With Apple, Inc. having the largest market capitalization of any company in the world, and an endless stream of CEOs and pundits talking about the importance of...
From Putting People First
Four new articles from UX matters
UX matters posted yesterday four new articles: The world of services user experience By Baruch Sachs In a services organization, you are not only the UX expert,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Fix For E-Mail: Fluent
I agree that EMail is becoming increasingly hard to deal with. Too much, too messy, and hard to deal with as an efficient means to store knowledge. These former...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Supply Chain Analytics is Important
A survey of CIO's indicates that " ... Analytics/business intelligence was the top-ranked technology for 2012 as CIOs are combining analytics with other technologies...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tailoring Analytical Insights at the Point of Decision
DemandTec is now an IBM Company, but I am continuing to make my way through their solution briefs for retail. This week I took a look at one that I had not reviewed...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Does CS "Rock" for your students?
One of the more interesting pieces of non-solicited email that I received this morning offered to help me teach like a rock star. I have to admit, the promotional...
From Wild WebMink
LibreOffice Matures
Now finally and firmly established as an independent entity, The Document Foundation and LibreOffice are a refreshing story of community triumphing over adversity...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SpaceCurve and Complex Location Data
In GigaOM: Metadata linked to location.SpaceCurve, a Seattle-based startup pushing a database designed for location data, has raised $2.7 million on the promise...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Secure Wireless Retail Networks
Particularly useful for point-of-sale applications. Press release. " ... New West Technologies partners with Enterasys Networks and Honeywell to offer secure...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
What happens when you get more Ph.D.s?
Following the fall of the USSR, hundreds of world class mathematicians emigrated to the USA. Intuitively, this should have made American mathematics stronger. Did...
From Apophenia
Are Librarians Encouraging Public Libraries to Abide by COPPA?
The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) was created to prevent corporations from collecting data about children without parental permission. This law...
From Computational Complexity
Aggie for a Day
About 25 years ago I visited a college friend, David Jackson, then a grad student at Texas A&M. He was a Ph.D. student in Food Science doing his doctorate research...
From Schneier on Security
Covert Communications Channel in Tarsiers
Marissa A. Ramsier, Andrew J. Cunningham, Gillian L. Moritz, James J. Finneran, Cathy V. Williams, Perry S. Ong, Sharon L. Gursky-Doyen, and Nathaniel J. Dominy...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 20 February 2012
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Commercial Drones
I read an article recently about a commercial drone being shot down. Then this NYT article about how commercial drones are now allowed in general. Heard ofA...
From The Eponymous Pickle