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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
Microsoft Antivirus
Microsoft is now offering a basic free antivirus capability for its operating systems. This could start some tussles with other offerings.-
From Putting People First
Herkko Hietanen: The social future of television
Herkko Hietanen of the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology tells his audience at the Berkman Center that
From Schneier on Security
The Problem of Vague Laws
The average American commits three felonies a day: the title of a new book by Harvey Silverglate. More specifically, the problem is the intersection of vague laws...
From Computational Complexity
The IT Rules
My family has discovered a British Series, the IT Crowd, about two techies in a corporate IT department. An American version never got past the pilot phase. ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Mining Software
A new blog which describes data mining software. I see that it covers SPSS Clementine, which has since been renamed PASW Modeler. SPSS has since been bought by...
From Wild WebMink
? Understanding Motivation
The Three Camps of Open Source "It's human nature to think in simple dichotomies: Free Software - GNU - GPL vs. Open Source - BSD...
From Schneier on Security
Predicting Characteristics of People by the Company they Keep
Turns out "gaydar" can be automated: Using data from the social network Facebook, they made a striking discovery: just by looking at a person's online friends,...
From My Biased Coin
Blog Posts of the Day
A blog post worth reading is Mihai Patrascu's post on, essentially, coming in second, if only for the chance to play armchair psychologist and try to deconstruct...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Buy and Sell Data
Infochimps is a site that says it will allow you to buy and sell data. A curious idea with some shaky potential issues. How will they be able to assure the validity...
From Putting People First
Deconstructing mobiles for development
Katrin Verclas of MobileActive is launching a new series on “deconstructing mobiles for development”. Mobile tech as a tool for social development is making the...
From Putting People First
Exploring little worlds with Nokia
The Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design is on a roll. After an intensive workshop with Intel (featured in Worldchanging), now they embarked on an exploration...
From Schneier on Security
Unauthentication
In computer security, a lot of effort is spent on the authentication problem. Whether it's passwords, secure tokens, secret questions, image mnemonics, or something...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Political Action in Kanasa
If you've read a recent piece I co-wrote in Communications of the ACM (membership required), you know that the States largely drive education decisions in the US...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Picturing an Uncertain World
In the midst of reading Howard Wainer's Picturing the Uncertain World. This Amazon link has a 'look inside'. Have read two of his recent books. See his site for...
From Computational Complexity
Debunking Proofs
One of the comments of the last post asked my (or someones) opinion on the proofs floating around that P=NP or P\ne NP. As a grad student I used to readWhat...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neuro Information Act
Neuro-information non-discrimination act signed. Consider the implications for biometric data gathering and use.
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM