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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 U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Commerce Department and Federal Trade Commission Seek Guidance on Online Privacy
In the first half of December the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Commerce Department's Internet Policy Task Force (IPTF) each issued reports focused on...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Private Car Networks
In MF Perry's blog on the natural emergence of markets: A car network that works from a smartphone: " ... "Request a car by telling Uber where you are. Text us...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ad Injection for Mobile Advertising
Recently in the Metaio Newsletter: " .... San Francisco / Munich, December 9th, 2010 - junaio, currently seen by many experts as the most advanced mobile Augmented...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Imaginary Dieting
Thinking about eating can be filling? Research ongoing in this space: In the NYT: Real Evidence for Diets That Are Just Imaginary
From Wild WebMink
? Strange Communion
I don’t think I’ll be able to get out to hear her performing live tomorrow evening in Winchester at The Tower, but I wanted to mention how much I have enjoyed Thea...
From My Biased Coin
End of Year Update from the Trenches (Area Dean News)
I last posted on Lance's blog about two months ago, so it seems a good time for an update.My class is (hooray!) finished. I've sent out grades to the students,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Word Lens Translation App
I have worked with machine translation in Google and also with high end translation systems. The result is never perfect. They can often but not always give you...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Prosthetic Tentacle
Impressive: Designed for a class project while getting her degree at the Industrial Design Department at the University of Washington, Kaylene Kau has not only...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Food Lion IPhone App
In SupermarketNews: Always innovative Food Lion is promoting its new IPhone App with contests.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bradley Efron Says it Simply
A very good interview with Stanford statistics prof Bradley Efron in Significance Magazine. I was sent a PDF, but I see it is regrettably behind a pay wall. There...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter Focus on Sales and Innovation
In the Cincinnati Enquirer: P&G outlines focus on sales and innovation at the Wall Street Meeting in Cincinnati yesterday. A good outline of company direction...
From Schneier on Security
Hiding PETN from Full-Body Scanners
From the Journal of Transporation Security, "An evaluation of airport x-ray backscatter units based on image characteristics," by Leon Kaufman and Joseph W. Carlson...
From The Noisy Channel
CIKM 2011 Industry Event
CIKM 2011 is nearly a year away, but I wanted to give folks a heads up about the Industry Event there that I am organizing with Tony Russell-Rose. These events...
From Schneier on Security
Did the FBI Plant Backdoors in OpenBSD?
It has been accused of it. I doubt this is true. One, it's a very risky thing to do. And two, there are more than enough exploitable security vulnerabilities...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
PCAST Issues Report on NITRD program
On December 16 the President's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology (PCAST) issued the latest in its Congressionally required assessments of the Networking...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-12-17
Marwell Wildlife: Adopt a Penguin If you're stuck for a gift idea for a Linux fan in the UK (or elsewhere actually), consider giving a Marwell animal sponsorship…...
From Schneier on Security
Fake Amazon Receipt Generators
They can be used to scam Amazon Marketplace merchants: What happens once our scammer is armed with his fake receipt? Well, many sellers on Amazon will ask you...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mechanical Turk Challenged by Spam
We used Amazon's Mechanical Turk to successfuly solve several human intelligence tasks in the enterprise. Unfortunately it is now reported that a large percentage...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retailers and In Store Smart Phones
A very good article in the WSJ about the increasing use of smartphones in stores to compare prices and other information about products via search and barcode scanning...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson