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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 Eponymous Pickle
SAP's Corporate Social Network Analyzer
Interestingly enterprise transaction software giant SAP has developed a prototype system that analyzes network data to determine business relationships. You can...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile ChaCha at Marsh
A very simple marketing idea where you text a mobile question to ChaCha, get an answer and a promotion to be used at Marsh, and go to a local store to pick it up...
From My Biased Coin
Conference Reviewing Update
A few weeks ago, I talked about the reviewing process for NSDI and LATIN. I suppose now is a reasonable time for an update.LATIN is nearing the end of the reviewing...
From Schneier on Security
Public Reactions to Terrorist Threats
Interesting research: For the last five years we have researched the connection between times of terrorist threats and public opinion. In a series of tightly designed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmenting Your Reality: Junaio
More augmented reality methods for online and mobile.Took a look at the Junaio augmented reality browser on the IPhone today. The basic idea is to let you augment...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What it Takes to Lead Now
By John Baldoni in the Harvard Business Publishing Blog, A majority of managers just don't understand what it means to be a leader ... '
From Schneier on Security
Bruce Schneier Action Figure
A month ago, ThatsMyFace.com approached me about making a Bruce Schneier action figure. It's $100. I'd like to be able to say something like "half the proceeds...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Quick Thoughts on Pregnancy and Grad School
For some reason or another, a few recent online conversations have got me thinking about pregnancy and grad school. (I suppose visiting a friend with a month-old...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Text Mining Handbook
Long on my stack, just making my way through: The Text Mining Handbook: Advanced Approaches in Analyzing Unstructured Data by Ronen Feldman and James Sanger. A...
From The Noisy Channel
An Ad-Supported Model With Teeth?
Apple recently filed for technology to deliver a rather compelling ad-supported business model. Or perhaps the better word is compulsory. You can read an analysis...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bias of Convenient Study Choices
Always thought there was something wrong with using US college students for determining universal psychological facts about populations, except when determining...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Computational Complexity and Games
From MIT, an interesting piece about representing the real world, always a good thing to think about. I never thought that game theory could accurately represent...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Just What is Computer Science?
Just what is computer science? Is it a science course? Is it a math course? Is it a business course? These questions pop up more frequently now that states...
From Wild WebMink
? Inconvenient Truth
Do music artists fare better in a world with illegal file-sharing? Answer: Yes. So why do the labels want to kill it off? Because they don't. Translation...
From Wild WebMink
A Software Freedom Scorecard
I spoke this morning at the South Tyrol Free Software Conference in Bolzano, Italy. My subject was the idea of a "software freedom scorecard", a list of indicators...
From Putting People First
Meet Microsoft
Microsoft Corp. is counting on Ms. Larson-Green, its head of Windows Experience, to deliver an operating system that delights the world’s PC users as much as its...
From Schneier on Security
Blowfish in Fiction
The algorithm is mentioned in Von Neumann's War, by John Ringo and Travis Taylor. P. 495: The guy was using a fairly simple buffer overflow attack but withEvery...
From Schneier on Security