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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 Noisy Channel
No More Quora Invites
Over the past days, I have been inundated with requests for Quora invites. I realize that I brought this upon myself my making my blog the top hit on Google for...
From Schneier on Security
The Social Dynamics of Terror
Good essay: Nineteenth-century anarchists promoted what they called the "propaganda of the deed," that is, the use of violence as a symbolic action to make a larger...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
To IDE or Not To IDE
One of the controversial issues that keeps coming up in computer science education is the role of the IDE
From The Noisy Channel
Enabling Exploratory Search with Dhiti
Last August, I wrote “Exploring Nuggetize“, in which I described an interface that
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
President Signs COMPETES Reauthorization
On Tuesday President Obama signed into law the reauthorization of the America COMPETES Act. The bill continues (among other things) the increasing funding trend...
From The Eponymous Pickle
RFID Security Cube
In RFID Journal: Had thought these kinds of security applications makes sense, here is a recent example:Self-contained RFID Cube Helps Keep Out Foreign Material...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crowdsourcing Site
I was contacted to take a look at a fascinating site that helps you construct crowd sourced solutions.It is called Squad Help. It looks like it uses contests to...
From Schneier on Security
SMS of Death
This will be hard to fix: Using only Short Message Service (SMS) communications
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
So, you want to be a mad scientist?
Exceptional scientists are often a bit crazy: Kurt G
From Computational Complexity
The Enduring Legacy of the Turing Machine
Last Februrary Peter Wegner asked if I would be interested in writing an article for a series in ACM Ubiquity on "What is Computation?" Our expanding collaboration...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-01-06
WikiLeaks prompts internal federal crackdown As I recall this is exactly the auto-immune response Assange was seeking to cause… (tags: wikileaks assange, cia,)...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Lightroom
Need to manage your photos? A look at Digital Lightroom, among other applications for advanced image management.
From Schneier on Security
Sony PS3 Security Broken
Sony used an ECDSA signature scheme to protect the PS3. Trouble is, they didn't pay sufficient attention to their random number generator.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Measure 21st Century Teaching and Learning at Your School Today!
I just saw an announcement of an interesting new program from Microsoft
From The Noisy Channel
Two Changes
I just wanted to let regular readers know that I’ve made two changes to this blog. The first is that I’ve eliminated the use of categories on posts. I found that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kraft Foods and Business Intelligence
An article in Consumer Goods Technology on Kraft Food's use of Business Intelligence. " ... Kraft Foods discusses its voyage toward information access and analysis...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Reflections
At the end of the year, it is customary to reflect upon what has been accomplished during the year. Since it is near that time I thought it might be a good time...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-01-05
LibreOffice Is the Default Office Suite for Ubuntu 11.04 – Softpedia Good to see the folks at Canonical supporting LibreOffice. (tags: Ubuntu DocumentFoundation...
From Schneier on Security
Eavesdropping on GSM Calls
It's easy and cheap: Speaking at the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) Congress in Berlin on Tuesday, a pair of researchers demonstrated a start-to-finish means of eavesdropping...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson