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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
Social Media and Business Intelligence
Short, common sense, but useful piece on the topic. You can only get what you measure.
From Schneier on Security
New Windows Attack
It's still only in the lab, but nothing detects it right now: The attack is a clever "bait-and-switch" style move. Harmless code is passed to the security software...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shopper App Goes Frugal
I have been keenly interested in ways to augment the shopping experience of consumers using smartphones and other devices. This blog has covered many such approaches...
From Computational Complexity
Goodbye PostScript
I was uploading a new PDF file up to my publications page and noticed that the paper also had a PostScript link but I didn't have an updated postscript file. So...
From My Biased Coin
The Value of Experiments
Several days ago Lance wrote about "Is Complexity Math or Science?", and in that context wrote "We don't do experiments...", which has caused me to overreact.I'm...
From Schneier on Security
Fifth Annual Movie-Plot Threat Contest Semi-Finalists
On April 1, I announced the Fifth Annual Movie Plot Threat Contest: Your task, ye Weavers of Tales, is to create a fable of fairytale suitable for instilling the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visa to Add Contactless Payment to IPhone?
The whole article shows how companies can back away from a press release. But why? In Storefrontbacktalk: ' ...Which is stronger: the curse of contactless payment...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lost as Hypertext Storytelling
I was involved in the early use of hypertext as a means of storing and retrieving knowledge. A number of hypertext systems existed before the Web. We constructed...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Failure to Upgrade
There was a funny movie out a few years ago called Failure To Launch. It tells the story of a man in his mid thirties who still lives at home. He doesn
From My Biased Coin
Another Book on Networks
Another book on networks, namely Networks: An Introduction, by Mark Newman, will be available in about a week or so. Mark is known to many in the networking community...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter's Green Scorecard
Procter & Gamble has established a green scorecard for advertising agencies.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Demise of the Land Line
Good piece in GigOM about the demise of the landline. Includes some useful statistics about how more people are using mobile as their only phone. We are getting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
About Your Web Site
Paul Gillin has a nice post on Seven Questions to Ask About Your Web Site.Good overview for people setting up their first site, but also a useful checklist if you...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Media a Fad?
If you have not seen this yet, worth a look. Video regarding Socialnomics. Via Duncan Berry.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile Business Intelligence
In BeyeNetwork: A podcast on the power of mobile business intelligence.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
The 2010 CSTA Elections
For the first time, CSTA used on-line voting for determining its representatives to the Board of Directors. I'd first like to start by congratulating the winners...
From Computational Complexity
Knowledge is Power!
In my last post I gave and asked for examples of people who didn't know things that they really ought to know. A commenter named Josh said posted the following:...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-05-13
KEI statement on possible WTO disputes against the EU seizures of goods in transit Very important issue here: Should goods in transit from A to B be subject to...
From Schneier on Security
Worst-Case Thinking
At a security conference recently, the moderator asked the panel of distinguished cybersecurity leaders what their nightmare scenario was. The answers were the...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson