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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 My Biased Coin
The 2050 Calculator
As regular blog-readers know, I'm a tremendous fan of David MacKay, who has gone from being a leader in the general area of Bayesian inference (author of Information...
From Schneier on Security
Security Vulnerabilities of Smart Electricity Meters
"Who controls the off switch?" by Ross Anderson and Shailendra Fuloria. Abstract: We're about to acquire a significant new cybervulnerability. The world's energy...
From Wild WebMink
? Jailbreaking Decision Is Temporary Relief
While the decision by the US Library of Congress to create exceptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act for jailbreaking iPhones is very welcome, the reaction...
From Apophenia
Facebook privacy settings: Who cares?
Eszter Hargittai and I just published a new article in First Monday entitled: “Facebook privacy settings: Who cares?” Abstract: With over 500 million users, the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wolfram|Alpha Widgets Beta Announced
This is something that is quite interesting I have just received and am starting to explore. Knowledge should be in the form of installable widgets, shouldn'tThe...
From Putting People First
The tension between user-centered design and e-government services
Nalini Kotamraju, assistant professor at the University of Twente in the Netherlands, gave a talk yesterday at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Funding Opportunities for Ed Tech
The Department of Education
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Work Where You Work Best
Summers can be a bit lonely at universities. Without the hustle and bustle of thousands of undergrads to keep things looking and feeling busy, and with many faculty...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Do People Want on Smartphones?
In Progressive Grocer: What information do people want on their smartphones. This is mostly a fairly obvious survey, with a much too small sample, that is still...
From Schneier on Security
DNSSEC Root Key Split Among Seven People
The DNSSEC root key has been divided among seven people: Part of ICANN's security scheme is the Domain Name System Security, a security protocol that ensures Web...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retail Geek
Just discovered through some Twitter messages The Retail Geek Blog. I have acted in that capacity at times. Welcome.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mapping the Brain's Networks
Remarkable overview of work by IBM scientists on mapping the major networks in the brain. With some great visualizations. The most comprehensive work yet in understanding...
From Putting People First
Rem Koolhaas, the Hermitage and the design of innovative experiences
On the way to celebrating its 250th anniversary in 2014, the Hermitage museum in St. Petersburg (formerly the Winter Palace of the Russian czars) hired legendary...
From The Noisy Channel
SIGIR 2010: Day 3 Industry Track Afternoon Sessions
While the SIGIR 2010 Industry Track keynotes had the highest-profile speakers, the rest of the day assembled an impressive line-up: The new frontiers of Web search...
From Putting People First
Cory Doctorow on curated computing
Cory Doctorow, the Canadian blogger, journalist and science-fiction author, argues in The Guardian that curated computing is no substitute for the personal and...
From Putting People First
Time to break the cyber-utopian myth
Who do you read and associate with online? Ethan Zuckerman argues in this Guardian video that cultural and linguistic barriers stand in the way of our using the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Sells Groceries in the UK
In Businessweek: Amazon sells groceries online in the UK. " ... has launched a grocery website in Britain, offering customers products from companies including...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
EdChat Education Discussions on Twitter
Have you ever wondered what good Twitter was for educators? Well #EdChat is one thing that is very useful. And pretty interesting as well. EdChat is an informal...
From Schneier on Security
Pork-Filled Counter-Islamic Bomb Device
Okay, this is just weird: Mark S. Price, a specialist in public security, and his privately held company, Paradise Lost Antiterrorism Network of America (www.plan...
From Computational Complexity