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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
Reacting to Security Vulnerabilities
Last month, researchers found a security flaw in the SSL protocol, which is used to protect sensitive web data. The protocol is used for online commerce, webmail...
From Computational Complexity
Whats your Game Mr. Bond? Nim?
BILL: Clyde is teaching a graduate course titled Games, Game Theory, and the Theory of Games. He tells me that there are basically eight kinds of games governed...
From Putting People First
Microsoft social media researcher Danah Boyd in the news
Danah Boyd, a social media researcher at Microsoft Research, is quite in the news these days, including a very nice profile in The Guardian: The Guardian – 9 December...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gimmicky Augmented Reality
Useful AdAge piece on gimmicks and hyping augmented reality. The suggestions are useful. Though gimmicks can be useful in positioning the possibility of an emergent...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Folds
A description in New Scientist of a new way of mapping the spherical earth into flat projections. I have seen a number of examples of similar methods. They are...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
When Technicalities Interfere with Learning
I was observing a middle school computer science class the other day working on a 3D graphics project. The teacher was describing how to define colors using the...
From Schneier on Security
TSA Publishes Standard Operating Procedures
BoingBoing is pretty snarky: The TSA has published a "redacted" version of their s00per s33kr1t screening procedure guidelines (Want to know whether to frisk a...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-12-10
Giant Mysterious Spiral Takes Over the Skies of Norway UFO vapour trail? Northern Lights caught in spin cycle? Giant hoax (and...
From Return 42;
The other side of the table: Ben Collins-Sussman
This is already the 13th installment of The other side of the table. To me, it is still amazing how many people took the time to reply to my inquiry about their...
From Putting People First
Latest Donald Norman essay started a big debate
Donald Norman ’s recent essay Technology First, Needs Last, in which he argues that “design research is great when it comes to improving existing product categories...
From My Biased Coin
TSA Oops
You may have heard on the news that the TSA (temporarily) put up their Screening Management Standard Operating Procedure on the web. As pointed out on this blog...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Managong Business Complexity
Re-Discovered: Managing Business Complexity: Discovering Strategic Solutions with Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation by Michael J. North and Charles M. Macal ....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neuromarketing in Forbes
Sally Satel, MD, is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. She comments on On neuromarketing in Forbes.
From Schneier on Security
My Reaction to Eric Schmidt
Schmidt said: I think judgment matters. If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place. If you really...
From Computational Complexity
Is posting about 17x17 problem BAD FOR ACADEMIA?
(The 17x17 problem has gotten far wider attention than I imagined--- Brian Hayes posted it on his website: here, and its also here and here. The last website is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Interactive Area Chart
From Flowingdata: How to make an interactive area chart, like the name voyager from the Baby Name Wizard by Martin Wattenberg. See the example on the right that...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Run-length encoding (part 3)
In Run-length encoding (part 1), I presented the various run-length encoding formats. In part 2, I discussed the coding of the counters. In this third part, I want...
From Putting People First
Does technology need personality?
Cennydd Bowles, a user experience designer at Clearleft in Brighton, England, writes about interaction design, behavioural change, and the design of emotions. “If...
From Schneier on Security