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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
Senator Lieberman and Colleagues Introduce Another Cybersecurity Bill
Cybersecurity legislation is sort of popular in this Congress. Several bills have been introduced, but there are enough cybersecurity bills working through the...
From My Biased Coin
STOC/FOCS Opinion : Guest Post by Boaz Barak
Boaz Barak asked to give a guest post on the recent STOC/FOCS issue and the question of accepting more papers. So I hand the floor over to Boaz:Do we really need...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Augmented Reality on Bloomberg Innovators, and Current Gaps
The weekly links post over at Games Alfresco - a blog about the latest and greatest industry and research advances in augmented reality - had a link to a documentary...
From Schneier on Security
Mainstream Cost-Benefit Security Analysis
This essay in The New York Times is refreshingly cogent: You've seen it over and over. At a certain intersection in a certain town, there'll be an unfortunate...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Whats Next for Publishing? Conference Report
Special report from Knowledge@Wharton: Turn the Page: What's Next for Publishing?. Excellent."Emerging technologies and strategies to reach new audiences are changing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Choice: Semantic Structure or Systemic Crises
Mark Montgomery of Kyields's blog post on the Gulf spill and the need for polymath perspective/philosophy for overcoming challenges.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Laptops of the Future
Computerworld looks at some of the early prototypes of laptops from a number of vendors. Most of what we see are multiple screens that can be used independently...
From Apophenia
How COPPA Fails Parents, Educators, Youth
Ever wonder why youth have to be over 13 to create an account on Facebook or Gmail or Skype? It has nothing to do with safety. In 1998, the U.S. Congress enacted...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM Comments on Internet Privacy Bill Discussion Draft
Representatives Rick Boucher (D-Virginia) and Cliff Stearns (R-Florida), who are the chair and ranking member of the House Subcommittee on Communications, Technology...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Voice Driven Web
From the CACM:" ... IBM Exploring voice-driven methods for the third-world webIBM Research India has launched the Spoken Web, a network designed to use phones,...
From Schneier on Security
Ninth Workshop on Economics and Information Security
Earlier this week, the Ninth Workshop on Economics and Information Security (WEIS 2010) was held at Harvard. As always, it was a great workshop with some veryliveblogged...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI and Stock Picking
In Technology Review: Text analytics method that picks stocks better than the pros. Which pro? Any pros? I have seen such methodologies of various stripes. My questions...
From Computational Complexity
Sims Complexity
I called home last night and my daughter Molly had an exciting story to tell. She was at her friend Danielle's house (the same Molly and Danielle from the video...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog