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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
Protecting OSs from RootKits
Interesting research: "Countering Kernel Rootkits with Lightweight Hook Protection," by Zhi Wang, Xuxian Jiang, Weidong Cui, and and Peng Ning. Abstract: Kernel...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Email Netiquette
Can you remember life without email and texting? BITD B4 the EMSG, we talked, in person or on the phone, and wrote in a language that was readable. Now, most...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Persuasive Technologies
FuturePundit on Persuasive Technologies. I am also reminded of Stanford's Persuasive Technology lab, who we worked with several times. And their blog.
From My Biased Coin
Graduate School? How to Decide...
What do people think about students going to work for a year or two and then applying to graduate school? Or applying but then deferring to work for a year or...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Eternal Conference Call
Nick Carr on the Eternal Conference call. I think I am still on that call. Insights on asynchrony versus synchrony in communications. -
From Computational Complexity
Multi-Agent Biological Systems and Nat Algorithms Workshop (Guest Post)
Guest Post from Aaron Sterling Multi-Agent Biological Systems and the Natural Algorithms Workshop I attended the Natural Algorithms Workshop on November...
From Schneier on Security
Is Antivirus Dead?
Security is never black and white. If someone asks, "for best security, should I do A or B?" the answer almost invariably is both. But security is always a trade...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Adoption of RFID
This issue has been on the table since at least 2000. Its such a good idea, so why isn't it taken up by everyone? The benefit studies have been done, the companies...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-11-10
Antitrust Division Issues Statement on the European Commission’s Decision Regarding the Proposed Transaction Between Oracle and Sun US Department...
From Putting People First
Book: Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media
Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out Kids Living and Learning with New Media (John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and...
From The Noisy Channel
The Noisy Noogler: A Quick FAQ
I’m barely 24 hours into my new life as a Googler, and I’ve already gotten lots of questions!
From Putting People First
CNN
Check out Experientia partner Jan-Christoph Zoels’s superb appearance on CNN’s Christiane Amanpour show yesterday… vividly describing how as an opposition member...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Use of Twitter, Facebook Exploding
From CW: I am a bit surprised that these are seeing very widespread use. Article also covers some of the privacy and security watchouts. ' ... People using Twitter...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Massively Complex Agent Environments
I am reposting this article from over a year ago to remind myself and readers of interesting work done in very large scale agent models. Here from Simulex, which...
From Computational Complexity
If FACEBOOK the new email?
Back in 1993 I had the following conversation with one of my relatives: BILL: Just give me your email address and I'll email it to you. RELATIVE: I don't...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Isolation and New Technology
Yes, it does cause some isolation, but also opens many new doors as well.
From Schneier on Security
John Mueller on Zazi
I have refrained from commenting on the case against Najibullah Zazi, simply because it's so often the case that the details reported in the press have very little...
From Putting People First
The human factor
NESTA, the UK’s National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, has published a 45-page discussion paper on how transforming healthcare to involve the...
From Putting People First
Designing mobile money services for emerging markets
Nokia user researcher Jan Chipchase has posted an in-depth presentation and paper on designing mobile money services for emerging markets: “Hang around a telecoms...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog