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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
Library of Congress to Archive Tweets
The US Library of Congress has announced that it will archive all public tweets. See more in it's blog. To be mine-able, for ever and ever, all your mundane thoughts...
From Schneier on Security
Matt Blaze Comments on his 15-Year-Old "Afterword"
Fifteen years ago, Matt Blaze wrote an Afterword to my book Applied Cryptography. Here are his current thoughts on that piece of writing.
From Computational Complexity
Tom L DVD and Birthday and You Tube and...
April 9 was Tom Lehrer's 82nd birthday! To celebrate I give you breaking news that a Tom L DVD was released April 13, 2010. It seems to have some videos of him...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmenting City Visits
From the CACM: Augmented Reality Brings Movie Magic to City Visits: " ... Using a combination of personalized location-based services and augmented reality, in...
From Putting People First
Psychologist Kahneman on experience and memory
Using examples from vacations to colonoscopies, Nobel laureate and founder of behavioral economics Daniel Kahneman reveals in a February 2010 lecture at TED how...
From Schneier on Security
Externalities and Identity Theft
Chris Hoofnagle has a new paper: "Internalizing Identity Theft." Basically, he shows that one of the problems is that lenders extend credit even when credit applications...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
K-12 Computing Teachers Workshop
The Computer Science Teachers Association sent out an announcement about an upcoming workshop hosted in Partnership with the Anita Borg Institute for Women and...
From Wild WebMink
? Seven Patent Reforms While We Wait For Nirvana
We'll not eliminate software patents overnight, but some reforms might be possible.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
More re DARPA
John Markoff had an extremely interesting profile of DARPA Director Regina Dugan in today’s NY Times.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Interactive Data Graphics in Media
Elissa Pellizzon Fink of Tableau writes about this good example of showing embedded complex graphics: "We have a new product that is more of an online media product...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
On the design of design
Following a blog post by John D. Cook, I started reading Fred Brooks‘ latest book. Brooks is famous, among other things, for his earlier book, the Mythical Man...
From Schneier on Security
Terrorist Attacks and Comparable Risks, Part 2
John Adams argues that our irrationality about comparative risks depends on the type of risk: With "pure" voluntary risks, the risk itself, with its associated...
From The Eponymous Pickle
McDonalds Social Media Chief
How can it not be serious of McDonald's has just added its first social media chief?-
From My Biased Coin
What's the Co-Author Line?
Continuing the past discussion on authorship issues, I've been considering the questions: at what point has a person involved in the project done so little work...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Epic Systems Trend Compass
I was just sent a promo piece by Epic Systems on their visualization system called Trend Compass. With a brief examination, it creates bubble charts and includes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Office vs Google Docs
Have been an Office user since the beginning and just in the last year have started to use some of Google Docs. Some new features, like easier sharing have made...
From Computational Complexity
Choosing a Graduate School
Besides being tax day, Thursday is the deadline to decide where to attend graduate school. How should you choose? I've blogged on this topic before but a few recent...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Celebration a Success!
Last week Carleton's Women in Science and Engineering hosted the very first Carleton Celebration of Women in Science and Engineering, and it was a great success...
From Schneier on Security
Terrorist Attacks and Comparable Risks, Part 1
Nice analysis by John Mueller and Mark G. Stewart: There is a general agreement about risk, then, in the established regulatory practices of several developed...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson