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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
Laissez-Faire Access Control
Recently I wrote about the difficulty of making role-based access control work, and how reasearch at Dartmouth showed that it was better to let people take theThis...
From Putting People First
The internet is killing storytelling
Narratives are a staple of every culture the world over. Yet, argues Ben Macintyre, writer at large for The Times (UK), they are disappearing in an online blizzard...
From Putting People First
Banking the unbanked Africans
The November 2009 edition of Mobile Money Africa, “Africa’s leading online resource for mobile financial inclusion”, is entitled “Banking the unbanked Africans”...
From Apophenia
Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out
I am delighted to announce that "Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media" is now in the wild and available! This book...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-11-09
Open source design and the OpenOfficeMouse I like this reflection from Chris Messina. The OpenOfficeMouse is just part of the rich flora and fauna...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cellphones as Microscopes
In the NYT: ' ... Microscopes are invaluable tools to identify blood and other cells when screening for diseases like anemia, tuberculosis and malaria. But they...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retinal Displays
For applications like augmented reality it makes sense to investigate ways to better get data directly into your eyes, without having to find a screen or move a...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Increased Use of Video
AdAge reports about increased use of online video by a number of consumer packaged goods players.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future Direction of Wolfram Research
Colin DeCair sends along a link which features a video clip from Stephen Wolfram
From Wild WebMink
? Music for a Bad Week
It may just be that you need some free music to soothe away the bad taste from a bad week. There are a bunch of pointers on my personal blog.
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Amazon's PayPhrase
In StorefrontBackTalk, a discussion about Amazon's new payphrase system and what the longer term implications for how you purchase. Speed and the ability to customize...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gamma Rays in Lightning
Antimatter signatures, gamma ray flashes, have been detected in terrestrial lightning storms. Don't recall this ever having been mentioned before. New safety implications...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Scratch Programming for 'All'
In CACM, the evolution of a programming language for all. I have looked at the Scratch site, but have not tried it for a real application. My argument to these"Digital...
From My Biased Coin
Ranking
An anonymous commenter asked an insightful question, worthy of a real answer: "Hi Prof, Why are you so obsessed with ranking things?"*Honestly, I don't think I...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Senate Judiciary Committee Approves Data Security Bills
In a markup session yesterday, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved two bills on the protection of consumer data. S 1490, the Personal Data Privacy and Security...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog