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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 Eponymous Pickle
Five Billion Connections
In the BBC: there are now over 5 billion phone connections worldwide. Staggering thought. The globe is a heavily interconnected network.
From Computational Complexity
CRA Snowbird Part I
I just returned home from my first trip to the CRA Snowbird Conference, the biennial meeting of CS chairs and other leaders in the CS community. I really enjoyed...
From The Noisy Channel
SIGIR 2010: Day 2 Keynote
The second day of the SIGIR 2010 conference kicked off with a keynote by TREC pioneer Donna Harman entitled “Is the Cranfield Paradigm Outdated?”. If you are at...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-07-22
ForgeRock Releases OpenAM 9.5 Software Quite a milestone – this is our first independent release, sourced entirely from community members. It's good stuff too –...
From Schneier on Security
More Research on the Effectiveness of Terrorist Profiling
Interesting: The use of profiling by ethnicity or nationality to trigger secondary security screening is a controversial social and political issue. Overlooked...
From Wild WebMink
? First Post!
Today is a significant milestone for the new venture I’m helping, ForgeRock. We’ve announced availability of our first full independent release of OpenAM, the open...
From Putting People First
Questions for Microsoft Research
Indrani Medhi, associate researcher in the Technology For Emerging Markets Group at Microsoft Research India, was recently rated one of the
From The Eponymous Pickle
Packaged Goods Company Develops Game
In Mediapost. I like the approach, will follow to see how it develops. ' ... Reckitt Benckiser has created a branded social-media game called poweRBrands, in which...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
DARPA a year later
Dr. Ken Gabriel, the deputy director of DARPA, delivered a plenary address at CRA
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Over-Educated, Yet Under-Qualified?
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From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM Comments on National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace
In late June the White House issued a second Draft of the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace. They opened a public comment process only on...
From Computational Complexity
Do you want to review a book
I will be sending my next book review column for SIGACT NEWS off on July 28, 2010. It has LOTS of books on its BOOKS I WANT REVIEWED list. YOU get a chance to look...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intel and the Social Scientists
An interesting post of how Intel is increasingly adopting a social science view. It is intriguing to think of how a company of engineers can move in this direction...
From Putting People First
The web means the end of forgetting
Legal scholars, technologists and cyberthinkers are wrestling with the first great existential crisis of the digital age: the impossibility of erasing your posted...
From Putting People First
The unintended consequences of Facebook
Facebook is about to celebrate its 500-millionth user, but the social media application has had wide consequences, even for those who have never signed on, writes...
From Putting People First
Coercing people into a brave new digital world
Design consultant Martyn Perks thinks that a UK government-backed campaign to get the entire UK adult population online “threatens to make cyber slaves of us all...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-07-21
Phase relationships in the standardization process James Gosling wrote in 1990: "standards are increasingly being viewed as competitive weapons rather than as technological...
From Schneier on Security
EU Counterterrorism Strategy
Interesting journal article evaluating the EU's counterterrorism efforts.
From Apophenia