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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
USACM and CRA Express Concerns Over Cybersecurity Legislation
Lost within all the health care legislation coverage was the release of a new draft of S.773, the Cybersecurity Act of 2010. The new draft was released a week...
From Schneier on Security
New Book: Cryptography Engineering
I have a new book, sort of. Cryptography Engineering is really the second edition of Practical Cryptography. Niels Ferguson and I wrote Practical Cryptography...
From Schneier on Security
Electronic Health Record Security Analysis
In British Columbia: When Auditor-General John Doyle and his staff investigated the security of electronic record-keeping at the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Deep Dark Web
Instructive, most people assume the search engines find everything:" ... Google sees only a fraction of the content that appears on the internet. Stuart Andrews...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Interaction Dynamics and Behavioral Economics
I recently discovered Interaction Dynamics via their Twitter presence. See also their blog: ' ... Interaction Dynamics is a tool to increase online customer conversions...
From Wild WebMink
? Fixes, needed and delivered
The EU ACTA Consultation: European Commission vs. European Parliament In the gentlest possible way considering the reactions of other commentators, Geist points...
From Schneier on Security
Back Door in Battery Charger
Amazing: The United States Computer Emergency Response Team (US-CERT) has warned that the software included in the Energizer DUO USB battery charger contains a...
From Putting People First
Eleven gambits for influencing user behaviour
In his blog, Dan Lockton, a Ph.D. researcher at Brunel University (UK), describes eleven behavioural change patterns “drawn from games or modelled on more playful...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Rethinking Hello World
Is it time to rethink and replace
From The Eponymous Pickle
3M Tracking and Inventory System
In an interesting development: -- 3M Launches Asset and Inventory Tracking System ... The solution includes 13.56 MHz passive RFID tags, handheld and pad readers...
From Putting People First
Connectile dysfunction
Designers can play a pivotal role, writes Mark Baskinger, associate professor in the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University, in empowering elders towards...
From Computational Complexity
Stoc Travel Support/WELCOME BACK LANCE!
(REMINDER AND UPDATE: If you are a a grad student you can apply for travel support for STOC 2010. See here for details. One update on that: since registration and...
From Schneier on Security
PDF the Most Common Malware Vector
MS Word has been dethroned: Files based on Reader were exploited in almost 49 per cent of the targeted attacks of 2009, compared with about 39 per cent that took...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Berners-Lee Building Web of Data
Intriguing and a natural expansion on the notion of a semantic web, plus looking at the infrastructure required to deliver it. In ReadWriteWeb: Inventor of the'...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
So, you know what
Most researchers are convinced that their current work is important. Otherwise, they wouldn’t do it. Yet, few of them work on obviously important things like curing...
From Putting People First
The future of health care is social
Too many of us are too busy to be healthy–not because we lack awareness. It’s finding the time to do it that’s the problem. In an age of 24/7 connectivity, time...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter Opens e-Store Consumer Lab
I mentioned this some time ago, here is more. Via Richard L. James. Procter has run physical store 'sand boxes' of this type for a long time, it is long overdue...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of March 22
March 23 Hearing: The Technology and Innovation Subcommittee of the House Science and Technology Committee will hold a hearing on teh National Institute of Standards...
From Schneier on Security
Even More on the al-Mabhouh Assassination
This, from a former CIA chief of station: The point is that in this day and time, with ubiquitous surveillance cameras, the ability to comprehensively analysearticle...
From The Eponymous Pickle