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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
Cheating at Casinos with Hidden Cameras
Sleeve cameras aren't new, but they're now smaller than ever and the cheaters are getting more sophisticated: In January, at the newly opened $4-billion Cosmopolitan...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Harvard Innovation Lab
Harvard starts a technology lab. There was an IBM ad some time ago which made fun of having to set aside a place to do innovation. Certainly it can be done...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Cyber Security Data for Experimentation
The NSF’s CISE Directorate has issued a Dear Colleague Letter (DCL), calling to attention the outputs
From Schneier on Security
Movie-Plot Threat: Open Airplane Cockpit Doors During Bathroom Breaks
James Fallows has a nice debunking of a movie-plot threat.
From The Eponymous Pickle
We Are the Web
Are we the web? In GigaOm. " ... Not too long ago, Om Malik blogged
From Schneier on Security
How Microsoft Develops Security Patches
I thought this was an interesting read.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Chiquita Rio Gamification Case Study
Met recently with Nancy Koors at Empower and she pointed me to this video case study of the Chiquita Rio gamification example that they created. Note the movie...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Linux and the financial crisis
On December 2007, the New York Stock Exchange adopted Linux. In late August 2008, we saw one of the worse worldwide stock market crash of the last hundred years...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-08-22
Mark Shuttleworth on patents, tablets and the future of Ubuntu | TechCentral Interesting interview with Mark, who I consider one of the key thinkers of the software...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile Devices in the Enterprise
Transcript: ACM CTO Roundtable on Mobile Devices in the Enterprise: Finding solutions as growth and fragmentation complicate mobile device support ...
From Schneier on Security
Pseudonymity
Long essay on the value of pseudonymity. From the conclusions: Here lies the huge irony in this discussion. Persistent pseudonyms aren't ways to hide who yoube...
From The Noisy Channel
Dream. Fit. Passion.
A few days ago, our CEO Jeff Weiner led a session at LinkedIn on how to “close” candidates — that is, how to persuade candidates to join your team once you have...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 22 August 2011
No out of the area travel for me last week. It was nice to sleep in my own bed every night. This is not to say that I wasn
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Effects on Memory
It has been debated now for some time. It reminds me of the debate when calculators first became common. Will we forget how to perform arithmetic functions if...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Contemporary Bayes
New on a favorite topic: 'The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Airlines Testing Tablets as Flight Bags
Delta and other are looking at tablets as a means to deliver knowledge to pilots. More fragile than paper, need to be charged, probably lighter net than a stack...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machine Learning Development Kits
More biologically inspired Intelligence, recently saw this. Have not looked at it in any detail but the idea of plug in machine learning is something we alsoai...
From Putting People First