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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
Homebrew Cryptography
Nice article about a would-be spy and his homebrew pencil-and-paper cryptography.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The best software developers are great at Mathematics?
One of the upsides of working for a university are the stimulating academic discussions. Yesterday, a philosopher challenged me a question: Beyond the fact that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Progress in Quantum Algorithms
In CACM: Recent Progress in Quantum Algorithms: What quantum algorithms outperform classical computation and how do they do it?. The early parts of this article...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Solving Household Problems
In the Enterprise a key goal was intimately understanding the needs of the consumer. It can be done in part by talking to many of them in contextual environments...
From Schneier on Security
Car-Key Copier
This< is neat: The Impressioner consists of a sensor that goes into the lock and sends information back to a computer via USB about the location of the lock's...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-02-12
New flaws in chip and pin system revealed Watch the video and see this entirely straightforward attack being carried out. There...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Summer Computer Camps 2010
Last week I posted about some professional development opportunities for teachers this summer. I expect to post most in the days to come. But for now the otheriD...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Administration
Earlier this month the Administration released its budget request for the 2011 Fiscal Year, which will start October 1 (whether or not Congress finishes the budget...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
FOSS Workshop, Day 2
The attendees at the CCC-supported workshop on Free/Open Source Software met today at UC Irvine’s Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences to work in break...
From Schneier on Security
Man-in-the-Middle Attack Against Chip and PIN
Nice attack against the EMV -- Eurocard Mastercard Visa -- the "chip and PIN" credit card payment system. The attack allows a criminal to use a stolen card without...
From Computational Complexity
FOCS 2010 CALL FOR PAPES is out!
(Univ of MD at College Park had Monday, Tuesday, Wed, Thursday all off. I've spend most of that time shoveling snow, so I am tired. Hence I am glad to have a SHORT...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Learning Photography with Augmented Reality
This is the first in a three-part series of design proposals for augmented reality learning applications. These are from a paper I wrote in my computers and cognition...
From My Biased Coin
FOCS 2010 Call for Papers is Up
Luca Trevisan sent me the link for the call for FOCS 2010. Key points: The deadline is April 7. And, in a move that I approve of, there's no page limit on submissions...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Junk Chart Book
The author of the always interesting Junk Chart Blog, Kaiser Fung, now has a book out. Described in the blog and now available: Numbers Rule Your World: The hidden...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Site-less Web
Paul Gillin has a good post on the emergence of a site-less web. An evolution is occurring, though I think that there will always have to be anchoring points like...
From Schneier on Security
Interview with a Nigerian Internet Scammer
Really interesting reading. Scam-Detective: How did you find victims for your scams? John: First you need to understand how the gangs work. At the bottom are...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cell Phone Wallets
In Forbes: Smart phones as payment systems. Considerable implications because smartphone acting as a wallet is also a communications device at the point of sale...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-02-11
Copyrights and wrongs While Matthew's discussion is good (and the links are very useful), he misses the key point: that communities...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Programming Contests
In various contexts the subject of programming contests has come up in conversations I have been having with both teachers and friends in industry. There are, to...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog