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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 Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Preserving Your Giant Squid
Plastination: For several years von Hagens and his team experimented using smaller squid, and found that the fragility of the skin needed a slower replacement...
From The Eponymous Pickle
3D Universe
You can experience Hubble's 3D universe in 3D. More background and images here.-
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Supply Chain Analytics Needed
In Sascom Magazine, at a recent conference of industry practitioners: ' ... Industry incumbents, academia and industry analysts all agreed that in the new-economy...
From Schneier on Security
Bringing Lots of Liquids on a Plane at Schiphol
This would worry me, if the liquid ban weren't already useless. The reporter found the security flaw in the airport's duty-free shopping system. At Schiphol airport...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SETI at 50 - No Evidence Yet
Searching for extra-terrestrial intelligence. Despite extensive crowd sourced efforts there has yet to be any evidence of ET. There are some useful comments (and...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Bringing the Epic Win to Real Life
Jane McGonigal said at TED 2010 that the world spends 3 billion hours per week playing games, but she'd like to see that number increase to 21 billion hours. You...
From The Eponymous Pickle
You Are Who You Know
Intriguing paper with privacy implications:You Are Who You Know:Inferring User Profiles in Online Social NetworksIn this paper, we ask the question: given attributes...
From Computational Complexity
Unique Games Redux
With spring quarter arriving, I will take a break from book writing on P v. NP and come back to blogging. I hit my goal of getting past the point of no return (about...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Searching for Assistant Director for CISE
The National Science Foundation is commencing a national search for the NSF’s Assistant Director for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) and...
From Schneier on Security
Security Trade-Offs and Sacred Values
Interesting research: Psychologist Jeremy Ginges and his colleagues identified this backfire effect in studies of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in 2007. They...
From My Biased Coin
Google-Viacom Documents
I don't blog about my work as an expert witness, but for those who are interested in such things, since I (currently) have nothing to do with the case, I can happily...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Architecture of Apps
John Battelle makes make the case that the architecture of apps is broken. They do not each rise above the level of a single purpose and do not communicate. -
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Virtual Events for Educators and School Administrators
I regularly receive announcements about Microsoft events for educators. Some of them are directly of interest to computer science teachers so obviously I blog about...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Netezza Retail Analytic Appliance
I have had a number of conversations with Netezza in the past. They announced their Retail Analytics Appliance this January. I just got an offer for their white...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Navigation in Rigorous Environments
Rockwell Collins handheld GPS receivers. ' ... For today's soldiers, handheld navigation is a necessity for situational awareness and surviving the rigorous environments...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
What Employers Want
I write this having just finished grading another set of programs. (Or is it that I am more or less always grading sets of programs, so that no matter when I blog...
From CERIAS Blog
Having an Impact on Cybersecurity Education
The 12th anniversary of CERIAS is looming (in May). As part of the display materials for our fast-approaching annual CERIAS Symposium (register now!), I wantedpresented...
From Putting People First
Creating new concepts, products and services with user driven innovation
From the Nordic Innovation website: User driven innovation is emerging as one of the successful ways of creating breakthrough innovations for companies and organisations...
From Schneier on Security
Disabling Cars by Remote Control
Who didn't see this coming? More than 100 drivers in Austin, Texas found their cars disabled or the horns honking out of control, after an intruder ran amok in...
From Putting People First