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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
Live Face-Off with Marcus Ranum at ISD
Here are the six links to the face-off Marcus Ranum and I did on stage at the Information Security Decisions conference in Chicago.
From Michael Nielsen
Biweekly links for 12/18/2009
Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » Hopefully my last D-Wave post ever Scott, in full ironic mode, proposes a crowdsourcing project that could really take off: “Yes...
From Computational Complexity
What is an Explicit Construction?
The Prob method (usually credited to Erdos) was once considered quite novel: You show something exists but you don't show how to construct it! An early exampleThe...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Tool Predicts Browser View
A new Google tool predicts how much of a page will be visible to visitors on entering a site, before they scroll. This would be useful to understand the operational...
From CERIAS Blog
Drone
"The U.S. government has known about the flaw since the U.S. campaign in Bosnia in the 1990s, current and former officials said. But the Pentagon assumed local Call...
From Putting People First
How
The banking industry is missing out on a huge opportunity to transform itself from a transactional model to an engagement model, writes social media strategist...
From Putting People First
The future of collaboration begins with visualising human capital
Venessa Miemis, a Master’s degree candidate in Media Studies at the New School in New York City, contributed a user idea to Nokia’s Ideas Project website, anticipating...
From Wild WebMink
? Changes, one thoughtful
Shuttleworth steps down as Ubuntu CEO Jane is fantastic, so I've no fears arising from this transition, just best wishes for both...
From Schneier on Security
MagnePrint Technology for Credit/Debit Cards
This seems like a solution in search of a problem: MagTek discovered that no two magnetic strips are identical. This is due to the manufacturing process. Similar...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Corkboard Database
A really simple idea, Spaaze.com, resting almost entirely on its metaphor, an infinite corkboard display. More about it.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mirrors in the Brain
In the midst of reading Mirroring People: The New Science of How We Interconnect With Others, by Marco Iacoboni. A non-technical book about mirror neurons, which...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Fall 2009 issue of Journal for Computing Teachers
The fall 2009 issue of Journal for Computing Teachers is available at http://iste.org/jct (direct link is http://tinyurl.com/yfq9qjz). JCT is a K-12 oriented...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Pushes 2D Barcodes
From Storefrontbacktalk: ' ... This week, Google said it was trying to breathe life into these barcodes by mailing 200,000 2D barcode stickers to small businesses...
From Schneier on Security
Australia Restores Some Sanity to Airport Screening
Welcome news: Carry-on baggage rules will be relaxed under a shake-up of aviation security announced by the Federal Government today. The changes will see passengers...
From Putting People First
The challenge of co-production
A new discussion paper by NESTA, the UK’s National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, argues that the key to reforming public services is to encourage...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kroger Links Loyalty to Wireless Minutes
Retailers are starting to do more clever things with loyalty programs: ' ... The Kroger Co. is rolling out what it says is a first-of-its-kind loyalty program that...
From Schneier on Security
The Politics of Power in Cyberspace
Thoughful blog post by The Atlantic's Marc Ainbinder: We allow Google, Amazon.com, credit companies and all manner of private corporations to collect intimateMy...
From Computational Complexity
A hard problem inspired by an easy problem
The following problem was problem 1 (the easy one) on the Maryland Math Competition 2009 (I will later report on how the students did on it). Show that for every...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Entropy-efficient Computing
Microprocessors and storage devices are subject to the second law of thermodynamics: using them turn usable energy (oil, hydrogen) into unusable energy (heat).
From Wild WebMink