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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
Brand Retail as Theater
This reminds me of the work of Brenda Laurel, game developer and systems theorist, who wrote about computers and theater. The theater of the brand: Building entertainment...
From Schneier on Security
Sears Spies on its Customers
It's not just hackers who steal financial and medical information: Between April 2007 and January 2008, visitors to the Kmart and Sears web sites were invitedSony...
From My Biased Coin
Extending the Sketching of Sketches Result
I'm putting online a paper with Zhenming Liu and Kai-Min Chung (both graduate students at Harvard) that extends one of the results from Declaring Independence via...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Computer Crime Legislation
Volokh posts on recently passed computer crime legislation. He quotes the entire act so that you can read it yourself. True it is legally cryptic, but you can get...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stephen Wolfram Talk
Stepehen Wolfram talks and does a Q&A on WolframAlpha and related topics they are working on. I need to get back to WolframAlpha to see how it is progressing. As...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Meijers Opens Online Shopping Concept
An interesting idea in these tighter times, a convenience-based personal shopper concept by Meijer in the Chicago area. Shoppers pick up their own orders hand delivered...
From Schneier on Security
Monopoly Sets for WWII POWs: More Information
I already blogged about this; there's more information in this new article: Included in the items the German army allowed humanitarian groups to distribute in...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Committee Considers Changes to Cybersecurity Research and Development
This morning the Research and Science Education Subcommittee of the House Science and Technology Committee met to mark up legislation that would amend the Cyber...
From Computational Complexity
Another Reason to goto FOCS: Theory Day!
(Posted by request of Vijay V. Vazirani. Flame him for any spelling or grammar mistakes, or if you don't like the content.) Another reason to goto FOCS:here...
From The Noisy Channel
Goby Goes Deep
At the first HCIR workshop in 2007, Michael Stonebraker stood up in the middle of an open discussion session and told all assembled that we needed to be thinking...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Global CIO Study Promotes Analytics
Here is the place to download the study. Standardization, Security and analytics are emphasized. Requires a minimal registration.' .. A new global study of more...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Machine Vision
Machine vision has been around for a long time. For example systems in manufacturing lines that easily detect varying quality. Once you take such system in a human...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Decline of Cursive
On the decline of cursive handwriting, in a recent article.I had discussions about this with a K-12 teacher relative, confirming the article. Little time is spent...
From Wild WebMink
Mind Your Own Business (Model)
I'm not sure why, but the "there is no open source business model" discussion has woken up again, with Matthew Aslett and Stephen Walli in particular chipping in...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM Looks Back at FY 2009
The ACM?s Policy Office staff and USACM?s leadership have compiled USACM?s annual report for the past fiscal year - 2009 (which ended June 30). This year?s report...
From Wild WebMink
? As Simple As Possible, And No More
The Obama Plan in 4 Minutes A really good edit for the attention-impaired of the joint session Obama delivered.USA politics health...
From Schneier on Security