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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 Computational Complexity
Happy Constitution Day
September 17th officially is known in the United States as "Constitution Day and Citizenship Day" but is celebrated today because the 17th this year falls on aConstitution...
From Schneier on Security
Domain-in-the-Middle Attacks
It's an easy attack. Register a domain that's like your target except for a typo. So it would be countrpane.com instead of counterpane.com, or mailcounterpane...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Your Chance to Learn Windows Phone Development for Free
Microsoft is offering a number of FREE Phone Camps around the US. These are fun and interesting workshops
From Michael Nielsen
Berlin, New York, Boston
I’ll be speaking about open science at events in Berlin, New York and Boston over the next week. Here’s my current schedule of public and semi-public events: Berlin...
From The Eponymous Pickle
TagWhat Launched
Tagwhat has been launched. Tagwhat Publishing at Places is here. We're excited to announce Tagwhat location-based publishing! Beginning today, you can easily...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Manufacturing
When I saw this term I did not understand what it was about. Check out this post for more about the details, players in the space and what it is meant to do. Kenandy...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Deconstruct the iPad with the Task Force on American Innovation
Those in the Washington, D.C. area next Wednesday, September 21, may want to attend a Congressional briefing hosted by the Task Force on American Innovation (ACM...
From Schneier on Security
Sharing Security Information and the Prisoner's Dilemma
New paper: Dengpan Liu, Yonghua Ji, and Vijay Mookerjee (2011), "Knowledge Sharing and Investment Decisions in Information Security," Decision Support Systems,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
WellPoint Meet Watson
More on the use of Artificial Intelligence techniques for medical diagnosis. I happen to be visiting the offices of WellPoint this afternoon. Note the mention...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Marketing Automation
In E-Commerce Times: " ... There is a lot of hype around marketing automation, and it's for good reason. An effective marketing automation strategy and implementation...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Seeking Proposals at the Interface of Computing, Economics
The National Science Foundation’s Directorates for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) and Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE)
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-09-15
UK business and government dangerously out of tune with cyber threats, says Chatham House – 9/15/2011 – Computer Weekly Interesting how the government is keen to...
From My Biased Coin
This Week, I Am Part of an Internet Meme
My frequent co-authors John Byers, Giorgos Zervas, and I posted an extended version of a current submission to the arxiv (as people do), which showed up last Friday...
From Schneier on Security
A Status Report: "Liars and Outliers"
It's been a long hard year, but the book is almost finished. It's certainly the most difficult book I've ever written, mostly because I've had to learn academic...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Imagine Cup 2012
Solving the world
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Efficient Crowdsourcing Models
In the ACM:" ... In recent years, crowdsourcing has gained more adherents as governments, businesses, and others aim to tap into the collective wisdom of crowds...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Master Class on the Science of Human Nature
In The Edge: This looks very good. " ... Princeton psychologist Daniel Kahneman on the marvels and the flaws of intuitive thinking; Harvard mathematical biologist...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crowd Sourcing Open Innovation with Lego
From Innovation Excellence: " ... Yes, you gotta love Lego! Not only is the company doing amazingly well during this
From Computer Science Teachers Association
I'll Have Some AppInventor with My Java, Please!
I jumped on the AppInventor bandwagon at a workshop at SIGCSE 2010 and believed that my students would really enjoy building apps for Android phones as much as...
From Apophenia