From Schneier on Security
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration
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B. Schneier| February 29, 2024
Document Freedom Day is March 30th this year. Why should you join in? See my article on ComputerWorldUK!Simon Phipps From Wild WebMink | February 14, 2011 at 03:45 PM
Several items of interest this Monday morning: President’s FY 2012 Budget Unveiled President Obama will reveal hisErwin Gianchandani From The Computing Community Consortium Blog | February 14, 2011 at 02:56 PM
This week the President released his Fiscal Year 2012 budget request. As a result, there will be several events, many of them today, where federal agencies discuss... From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM | February 14, 2011 at 02:51 PM
On Friday I heard a speaker lament about how losing the manufacturing base in the US: "You can move a foundry easier than you can move an Internet company." An ...Lance From Computational Complexity | February 14, 2011 at 02:40 PM
Happy Valentines Day! Surely there is some appropriate computer project or connection for the day but I can’t think of one off hand. Can you? So for me, here are...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | February 14, 2011 at 10:21 AM
ForgeRock was started in February 2010 and is now one year old. In its first year: ForgeRock did business with 35 customers in 10 countries Global turnover exceeded...Simon Phipps From Wild WebMink | February 14, 2011 at 08:01 AM
In KurzweilAI: a good piece on the artificial intelligence of the upcoming Jeopardy challenge using the IBM Watson computer. Ray Kurzweil on the meaning of computer...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | February 14, 2011 at 05:43 AM
Engadget comments on a NYT article on JC Penney gaming the search process of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) on Google Search. I fail to see how anything wrong...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | February 13, 2011 at 10:01 PM
The theme of the May CSTA Voice is "Computational Thinking." As I thought about what to include in this upcoming issue and reviewed some of the past CT work by... From Computer Science Teachers Association | February 13, 2011 at 08:22 PM
The bizarre bias against Wal-Mart in the NYC area. I understand the arguments, but they are essentially against efficiency. Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | February 13, 2011 at 05:27 PM
Document Freedom Day 2011 Don't for a second underestimate the importance of document formats – the way your files are stored by the program you use – in locking...Simon Phipps From Wild WebMink | February 13, 2011 at 01:10 PM
Gallup has published a favorability rating of countries to people in the US. Both the methods used and the graphics are interesting. Trends of the rating over...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | February 13, 2011 at 01:37 AM
I created a wordcloud using Wordle, using the RSS feed for this blog. Scanning this, it is clear that it is using only a small subset of recent words in the...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | February 13, 2011 at 01:17 AM
A favorite topic of mine, pictures that represent compact, useful and easily scannable visualizations of real data. Here Doug Lautzenheiserdiscusses the Wordle...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | February 13, 2011 at 12:53 AM
Not sure how long this link will work, but a foodie friend sends me the article from the WSJ: The Game-Changing Cookbook: Nathan Myhrvold's 2,400-page 'Modernist...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | February 12, 2011 at 06:57 PM
The CRA website has an interesting white paper on the role of postdocs in computer science.Ran Libeskind-Hadas From The Computing Community Consortium Blog | February 12, 2011 at 05:56 PM
Good piece with statistics in E-Commerce Times. Useful statistics. If you give the shopper the right kind of choices and offers , at the right time and place,...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | February 12, 2011 at 02:55 PM
Double Bug: Oracle Kept OpenJDK In The Dark Great explanation from Mark Wielaard of how the effectiveness of the OpenJDK community in dealing with the Double security...Simon Phipps From Wild WebMink | February 12, 2011 at 01:02 PM