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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 Schneier on Security
Isolating Terrorist Cells as a Security Countermeasure
It's better to try to isolate parts of a terrorist network than to attempt to destroy it as a whole, at least according to this model: Vos Fellman explains how...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of September 27
September 28 The Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee of the Department of Homeland Security will meet. 8:30 a.m., Carl Hayden Room, Government Printing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Extensible Ad Formulas
In AdAge: A formula for ads by Procter & Gamble's Men's grooming. Is it extensible to other categories? " ... Cracking Viral Code: Look at Your Ads. Now Look...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visual Dictionaries
A friend and I recently discussed how we had both grown up scanning pages in the encyclopedia and dictionary. What I found interesting about that were not only...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-09-27
Meet the Defenders of Open-Source Software I can't decide whether I am pleased there are people doing this or concerned that their actions become the focus of public...
From Schneier on Security
New Attack Against ASP.NET
It's serious: The problem lies in the way that ASP.NET, Microsoft's popular Web framework, implements the AES encryption algorithm to protect the integrity ofdemo...
From Computational Complexity
The Theory Social Network
Derrick Stolee tweeted that the videos from the 2010 Complexity Conference are now on-line. If you want to attend a conference live, don't forget early hotel and...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 27 September 2010
Last week I wrote a post about the Imagine Cup. (Imagine Cup–Solving the Worlds Problems Through Software) A couple of things I should have mentioned about it though...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Green Boxes
An interesting idea via IFTF: Take unused warehouse space in a city and use it to implement aquaponics ... a combination of soil-less growing of plants, and using...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Enforcing Fun at Work
I always loved having fun at work. Yet in my years at the enterprise there were a couple of times where there was an attempt at attempting to enforce or systematize...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Berners-Lee and the Mobile Web
In Read Write Web: Comments by the Web Inventor Berners-Lee on concerns with important issues regarding the mobile Web. Some points I had not thought of. Inevitable...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Not Finishing the Book
An interesting Volokh piece about the ethics of reviewing or criticizing books (or anything) without finishing the whole thing. Guilty at times of exactly that.
From The Noisy Channel
An Open Letter to the USPTO
Following the Supreme Court’s decision in Bilski v. Kappos, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) plans to release new guidance as to which patent...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Who I Want to Meet at Grace Hopper
A great way to gear up for the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing is to decide what your goals are for when you get there. This year, for the first...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Managing Data as an Asset
Thinking about managing data as an asset. It is surprising how often we do not think about this. Could be a key aspect of managing knowledge.
From Putting People First
Essential interaction design essays and articles
Dan Saffer of Kicker Studio has started a list of essays and articles that he feels are important touchstones and reference points for interaction designers. The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Card Scanning
In the NYT, an overview of a number of business card scanning applications. I still hand business cards manually, it would be good to digitize these and add them...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A House that Knows Family Mood
Another example of sensing and automating common home processes such washing your hair. Or integrating sensory processes into the home itself. In the early 2000s...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: "Truck Carrying Squid Crashes In Broccoli Field"
You can't make up a headline like that.
From The Eponymous Pickle