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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 Putting People First
Internet of things blurs the line between bits and atoms
In the past few months, companies ranging from giants such as Google to small start-ups have been touting the possibility of interconnecting people and objects...
From Schneier on Security
Open-Source Software Feels Insecure
At first glance, this seems like a particularly dumb opening line of an article: Open-source software may not sound compatible with the idea of strong cybersecurity...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Online Currency: Bitcoin
Bitcoin, the experiment with encrypted online currency. Dangerous? A Scam? Revolutionary or just a renaming of something old? Will it be made illegal? It ultimately...
From Schneier on Security
Spear Phishing Attacks from China Against Gmail Accounts
Reporters have been calling me pretty much constantly about this story, but I can't figure out why in the world this is news. Attacks from China -- old news; attacks...
From Putting People First
Digital You: a NESTA discussion on telepresence
Digital You was an early morning discussion in London, organised by NESTA, that looked at telepresence and the psychology of electronic communications. NESTA is...
From Putting People First
Is car sharing the future of the automobile industry?
As much as the car chieftains of Detroit try to fight it, America is slowly but surely turning away from the concept of car ownership. Instead, hundreds of thousands...
From Putting People First
Five similarities between collaborative consumption and open-source technology
Tim Hyer, the founder of Rentcycle (an online rental marketplace for those looking to share access rather than retain ownership), was hugely inspired by his previous...
From Computational Complexity
Partioning Students
One last Molly post for the end of the school year. Tomorrow is her birthday and I enter that moment I have been dreading for the past thirteen years: Two teenage...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Archiving Everything
Remembering being surprised in 2010 that the US Library of Congress was archiving Twitter. Lots of details about that effort here. So many data mining opportunities...
From Schneier on Security
Man-in-the-Middle Attack Against the MCAT Exam
In Applied Cryptography, I wrote about the "Chess Grandmaster Problem," a man-in-the-middle attack. Basically, Alice plays chess remotely with two grandmasters...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crowd Sourced Eyetracking
A look at YouEye ... An interesting concept that is likely very cheap. But what will the quality be like? Tracks using your own camera for user interface design...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Touchscreen vs Heavy Lifting OS
A look at touchscreen as an interface versus full operating systems. Praises an early look at Windows 8, but says it cannot match the simplicity of an iPad. But...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ford's Cars to Talk to Each Other
GigaOm report on development of technology by Ford to allow cars to talk to each other and avoid crashes and otherwise cooperate. Cooperative autonomy is interesting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
MindBox
Met today with Jeff Dyck of Mindbox Studios. They have done some very interesting things, including some intriguing work with nonprofits. Emphasis on symbolic...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Take Virtual Chef Training
Be a virtual Top Chef. Take the basic training. An example of entertainment based online games. Not particularly engaging to me, though I am a foodie, but this...
From My Biased Coin
Justin's Poster at FCRC
Justin Thaler, a student I'm advising (or, quite arguably, the other way around), will be at the poster session for STOC, ready to talk about a bunch of his currently...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Seeking Proposals With
The NSF’s CISE and Biological Sciences (BIO) directorates have joined forces to seek interdisciplinary proposals that further the frontiers of both fields. In a...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
So You Want To Teach Your Kids To Program?
In all honestly I tend to avoid Slashdot. Oh I scan it for the news from time to time but I work hard at avoiding the comments and avoid the Q&A forums. Why? The...
From Putting People First