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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 The Eponymous Pickle
Cloud Enhanced Innovation
IBM on how the cloud can drive new, innovative business models. A largely non technical post with some useful thoughts.
From Schneier on Security
Trust Requires Transparency
Adam Shostack explains to Verisign that trust requires transparency. This is a lesson Path should have learned.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF
The deadline for preliminary proposals to the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) next Expeditions in Computing
From Michael Nielsen
How you can help the Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA) become law
As many of you no doubt know, the Federal
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Science e-Book from AnalyticsBridge
A first draft of a data science e-Book available for free from the AnalyticBridge social network for analytics professionals. . From business analytics professionals...
From My Biased Coin
A Systems Complaint
I think of myself as a person who works both in systems and theory. And I've found that's often a challenging position. I've been vocal before that I think theory...
From The Eponymous Pickle
iPads in the Bedroom
A recent survey shows that most tablets are used at home rather than on the road. And in the bedroom, where this post says tablets have become a fixture. (68%...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Is Twitter Serious?
David Carr on the implied seriousness of Tweets. He makes some interesting points about the difficulty of considering a communications channel very informal, but...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SuperBetter Labs
Some game designers have put together a system that lets you join an all star team. SuperBetter is an online, social game designed to help you build up personal...
From Wild WebMink
? Eric Whitacre
Back in December I mentioned that Eric Whitacre’s wonderful choral album “Light and Gold” [Amazon UK | Amazon US] had been nominated for a Grammy award. Well …...
From Schneier on Security
Liars and Outliers Update
Liars and Outliers is available. Amazon and Barnes & Noble have ben shipping the book since the beginning of the month. Both the Kindle and the Nook versionsordered...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Redefine the employee
With changes in how people communicate, in both social and technical terms, we need to think of new ways to vaul e people. More thoughts in Chief Learning Officer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Towards Better Shopper Marketing Strategies
In Mediapost: Takes a look at a Booz & Company Study: " ... The big challenge, concluded Booz, is for manufacturers to
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
The President
Later this morning, President Obama will unveil his budget request for FY 2013. A number of budget briefings by Federal funding agencies are scheduled throughout...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of February 13
February 16 Hearing: The Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee will hold a hearing on the Cybersecurity and Internet Freedom Act of 2012. 2:30...
From Computational Complexity
Barney the Evil Dinosaur
This is an old story from before I had a blog, but one of my favorite on when technology goes bad. In the late 90's, the undergraduate CS coordinator at the time...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
This Thursday, a Symposium on the Impact of NITRD
Since the dawn of the digital age, fundamental research sponsored by the Federal
From Schneier on Security
What Happens When the Court Demands You Decrypt a Document and You Forget the Key?
Last month, a U.S. court demanded that a defendent surrender the encryption key to a laptop so the police could examine it. Now it seems that she's forgotten the...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 13 February 2012
Home again after a week in Texas! Had a great time in Texas both at the TCEA conference and the steering committee meeting for the CS 2013 project. All in all I...
From The Eponymous Pickle