Communications of the ACM
Refine your search:
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 CERIAS Blog
Morning Keynote Address: DHS Undersecretary Rand Beers (Symposium Summary)
Wednesday, March 31, 2010 Summary by Gaspar Modelo-Howard Day two opened with a keynote from Under Secretary Beers, who has had a long and interesting career3...
From CERIAS Blog
Fireside Chat (Symposium Summary)
Tuesday, March 30, 2010 Panel Members: Mike McConnell, Booz Allen Hamilton Rand Beers, DHS Eugene H. Spafford, CERIAS Summary by Derril Lucci The fireside...
From CERIAS Blog
Panel #2: Infosec Ethics (Symposium Summary)
Tuesday, March 30, 2010 Panel Members: Nicolas Christin, Carnegie Mellon University Cassio Goldschmidt, Symantec Corporation Aaron Massey, North Carolina State...
From CERIAS Blog
Panel #1: Visualization of Security (Symposium Summary)
Tuesday, March 30, 2010 Panel Members: Donald Robinson, Northrop Grumman Ross Maciejewski, Purdue Alok Chaturvedi, Purdue Summary by Ryan Poyar The first...
From CERIAS Blog
Opening Keynote: Mike McConnell (Symposium Summary)
Tuesday, March 30, 2010 Summary by Jason Ortiz Mike McConnell, retired Admiral of the Navy, former Director of NSA and former Director of National Intelligence...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Interview with Zakta
An interview with long time connection Sundar Kadayam about his very innovative search and knowledge system Zakta. We used some of Sundar's previous systems. Also...
From The Noisy Channel
Build Your Own NYT Linked Data Application
Regular readers may recall hearing about the New York Times Annotated Corpus (which is the basis for the HCIR Challenge), and decision to publish their tags as Linked...
From Computational Complexity
But seriously now folks- what do you make of barrier results?
In my April Fools Day Post I said the following: Here are problems that I believe can be solved with current techniques. That was indeed true- since they were...
From Schneier on Security
New York and the Moscow Subway Bombing
People intent on preventing a Moscow-style terrorist attack against the New York subway system are proposing a range of expensive new underground security measures...
From My Biased Coin
60-40 papers
A recent paper I worked on was a 60-40 paper. That's what I call it when one of the authors does noticeably more of the work. Really, it could be a 70-30 paper...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-04-07
IBM: Back to the Bad Old Days? Pretty good analysis of the IBM patent aggression from ESR: "IBM has reached a critical juncture. For the last decade the company...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
2010 US Imagine Cup Community Showcase
Please join Microsoft for the 2010 US Imagine Cup Community Showcase The US Imagine Cup team would like to extend an invitation to you...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Foundation of Semantic Web Technologies
I had a very good conversation today with Prof Pascal Hitzler. Author of the books: Semantic Web - Grundlagen and Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies. He is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brand Names in Scrabble Games
In the BBC: Proper nouns are now allowed in new versions of the Scrabble board game. Think of the opportunity for product placement! Though how many people play...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Balancing the Needs of Industry and Academia
As I embark on this journey that is a PhD, I constantly remind myself of my goal of remaining useful. I want to retain practical skills that could be used in outside...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
ACM Washington Update, Vol. 14.2 (April 6, 2010)
CONTENTS [1] Newsletter Highlights [2] 2009 ACM Turing Award Goes to Charles Thacker [3] USACM and CRA Express Concerns with Senate Cybersecurity Bill [4] Science...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The Last Bug
I spent much of yesterday working on a computer program. A friend of mine wrote it in Visual Basic .NET and I was converting it to C# so that it could be used as...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
External-Memory Sorting in Java : the First Release
In my previous post, you were invited to help with a reference implementation of external sorting in Java. Several people tested and improved the code. I like the...
From Computational Complexity