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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 Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computing Architecture Workshop
In the area of Computing Architectures there are some well known discontinuity-inducing trends staring us in the face. The entire computing community is planning...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Turning on a Paradigm
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From The Eponymous Pickle
CG Direct Selling to the Consumer
In StoreFrontBackTalk, a discussion of manufacturers direct selling to consumers online. This has been avoided for a long time in big CG to avoid antagonizing the...
From Schneier on Security
Nose Biometrics
Really: Since they are hard to conceal, the study says, noses would work well for identification in covert surveillance. The researchers say noses have been overlooked...
From My Biased Coin
A Conflict Question
I was recently asked the following question:Suppose you're the PC chair, and someone who has submitted a paper asks you NOT to have the paper reviewed by a specific...
From Putting People First
Mindspace: Influencing behaviour through public policy
New insights from science and behaviour change could lead to significantly improved outcomes, and at a lower cost, than the way many conventional policy tools are...
From Computational Complexity
Turing Award and Waterman Award and the variety of our field
As Lance tweeted: The Turing Award for 2009 was given recently to Chuck Thacker LINK. See here. He developed the first modern PC. The Alan T. Waterman award...
From Putting People First
Nokia designers on their work
Izwan Ismail, a journalist at Malaysia’s New Strait Times newspaper, talked to Nokia
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bring Your Laptop to Work
An idea discussed at Procter & Gamble for years, but always shied away from due to security and data ownership issues. Driven in part by complaints from new-hires...
From Putting People First
Are we about to witness a digital service revolution?
Introducing new digital services in cities promises the change the way citzens live in cities around the world. “Only a few years ago, digital services were about...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Staffing for Intelligence
A good CW report on the general use of analytics in the enterprise. Its the use data, models and intelligence to find better solutions. It is a domain that I...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Paper Reviews In Class
Our Open Source Engineering class is a little different from most here at Carleton's School of Computer Science. The professor wants to give students an opportunity...
From Schneier on Security
The Limits of Identity Cards
Good legal paper on the limits of identity cards: Stephen Mason and Nick Bohm, "Identity and its Verification," in Computer Law & Security Review, Volume 26, Number...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Competitor to Google Voice
In Readwriteweb. A free system called Phonebooth has emerged to be a VOIP phone service similar to Google Voice. Likely interesting to small companies and startups...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter and HP Ten Years Later
Some interesting observations on the outsourcing, looking back ten years to the present. I have known many peoeple that were part of this and were ultimately influenced...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Age of Online Grocery Shopping
Good piece in Ars Technica that covers the current state of online grocery shopping and the current players in this space. ' ... Shopping for groceries and household...
From Schneier on Security
Marc Rotenberg on Google's Italian Privacy Case
Interesting commentary: I don't think this is really a case about ISP liability at all. It is a case about the use of a person's image, without their consent,...
From My Biased Coin
Congratulations to Chuck Thacker
The news has hit the wires -- Chuck Thacker is this year's Turing Award winner.I had the great pleasure of getting to know Chuck while I worked at DEC SRC. He's...
From Computational Complexity
HW policies: PROS and CONS
The last blog entry had lots of good comments about different HW policies. I enumerate them and say PROS and CONS Hard Deadline. PRO- uniform, no favoritism,...
From The Eponymous Pickle