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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 Computing Community Consortium Blog
With the Score
Decimated. Vanquished. Demolished. As you probably know by now, those are but a few of the words being used to describe how “Watson” — the IBM question-answering...
From Wild WebMink
? Freedom In A Box
Moglen on Freedom Box and making a free net Eben’s ideas on a zero-interaction home server (“FreedomBox”) to route internet traffic safely and effectively seem...
From Schneier on Security
NIST Defines New Versions of SHA-512
NIST has just defined two new versions of SHA-512. They're SHA-512/224 and SHA-512/256: 224- and 256-bit truncations of SHA-512 with a new IV. They've done this...
From Putting People First
The business of personal data
The World Economic Forum just came out with a report, “Personal Data: The Emergence of a New Asset Class,” that surely is going to raise some controversy, as it...
From Geeking with Greg
What I have been reading lately
Here are a few of the articles that have caught my attention recently:Googler and AI guru Peter Norvig on what artificial intelligence has been able to do and what...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Improves Social Search Tool
Google has changed its social searches so that when you are logged in with your Google account you will get interleaved results that include hits from your ownMuch...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Disrupting Your Industry
I am in the midst of a consulting project where it looks like it will be very hard to disrupt the industry. Most everything has been done already. All the slack...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Procedural Rhetoric in Games
In the Carleton Game Dev Club meeting last week, a member showed a video from the Escapist series Extra Credit. Called Narrative Mechanics, this episode was all...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Backups
Good defensive computing CW piece on backups, what they are and what they are not and how to make sure you don't lose really important things.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Catalog for Language Resources
More resources that can help you do research with languages: " ... It has just become a whole lot easier to search the world's language archives. The new OLAC Language...
From Putting People First
The business of Inclusive Design
Last year I wrote about the book “Innovating with people
From Schneier on Security
Historical Study of the NSA Scientific Advisory Board
Recently declassified: "Historical Study: The National Security Agency Scientific Advisory Board 1952
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-02-17
Microsoft: Absolutely NO Free Software for Windows Phone and Xbox Apps Despite all the rhetoric from Microsoft's evangelists, they just can't get over their hatred...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
New Software on DreamSpark
Dreamspark is all about free development software for students. This week we added six new or updated products to the mix. This release included: KoduSmallBasic...
From Wild WebMink
? Archives
I’ve not found a way to add a subject index page to my blog that’s automatically generated from the tags or extracts or even a word list, but I have added an archive...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ramping Up Shopper Marketing
Good overview article from Wharton which provides a statement of the direction of what we used to call merchandising: " ... Shopper marketing is gaining popularity...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM Joins Statement of Concern Over Expansion of Intercept Law
Today the Center for Democracy and Technology released a statement it developed to respond to possible changes to the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sands Research Superbowl Ad Ranking
Sands Research has posted their most recent super bowl ad ranking information, based on their unique neuro marketing methods. They have also included eye tracking...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
ACM Washington Update Vol. 15.1 (February 16 2011)
CONTENTS [1] Newsletter Highlights [2] USACM Comments on Proposed Web Accessibility Guidance [3] USACM Responds to Department of Commerce Online Privacy Report...
From Computational Complexity