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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 Return 42;
The other side of the table: Limsoon Wong
Professor and Head of Computer Science of the School of Computing at the National University of Singapore. Before that, he was the Deputy Executive Director for...
From CERIAS Blog
"Verified by VISA": Still Using SSNs Online, Dropped by PEFCU
I have written before about the "Verified by VISA" program. While shopping for Thanksgiving online this year, I noticed that Verified by Visa scripts were blocked...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Happy Holidays
The end of the year brings upon us the celebrations that come with the holidays. This year, we have extra reason to celebrate with an added holiday. The week of...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
PASS ID Moves Forward in Congress
PASS ID, S. 1261, is a bill introduced in June as an attempt to break through the impasse over REAL ID. That law, passed as part of a budget bill in 2005, was...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Acquisitions as Retail Geography
A BNet article that looks at P&G past acquisitions, and speculates about future M&A in terms of retail space coverage. I like the idea of understanding products...
From Schneier on Security
Mumbai Terrorist Attacks
Long, detailed, and very good story of the Mumbai terrorist attacks of last year. My own short commentary in the aftermath of the attacks.
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Crowdsourcing
An instructive piece on how IBM sources skills to a job. Requires registration. -
From The Eponymous Pickle
Learning with Serious Games
On learning through games and simulations. ' ... Karl Kapp, professor, author and speaker, understands the value of games and simulations in learning. In this...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Drawing as Thinking
David Sibbet passes along a link to a video by Milton Glaser on drawing as another form of thinking.
From Computational Complexity
Birthday Paradox Variance
First a message from David Johnson for proposals on locations for SODA 2012 both in and outside the US. Here's an interesting approach to the birthday paradox...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Embracing an Innovation
A timely piece in Knowledge@Wharton on choosing innovations. Something we and all enterprises struggled with under the topic of knowledge management and portfolio...
From Schneier on Security
Virtual Mafia in Online Worlds
If you allow players in an online world to penalize each other, you open the door to extortion: One of the features that supported user socialization in the game...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-11-25
Senators press EU to speed its Oracle-Sun probe US senators, that is. I'm sure the Commission will completely ignore them. (tags: Sun Oracle...
From The Eponymous Pickle
fMRI used in Sentencing
Having just personally experienced my first fMRI, this caught my eye. Apparently the first time that this has been done in a courtroom. Not that the method is being...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Real Code is Messy
Reading John Harrison's blog of November 3 got me thinking about what I am trying to teach my students in my third-semester (university) course about the development...
From Schneier on Security
Users Rationally Rejecting Security Advice
This paper, by Cormac Herley at Microsoft Research, sounds like me: Abstract: It is often suggested that users are hopelessly lazy and unmotivated on securityme...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Run-length encoding (part I)
Run-length encoding (RLE) is probably the most important and fundamental string compression technique. Countless multimedia formats and protocols use one form or...
From The Eponymous Pickle