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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
Don't Let Hacker Inmates Reprogram Prison Computers
You'd think this would be obvious: Douglas Havard, 27, serving six years for stealing up to
From The Eponymous Pickle
IPhone App Interacts with SAS
Correspondent Sy Truong has just had an Iphone App called BI Flash approved. It allows you to deliver SAS reports and data to the IPhone, enter parameters, capture...
From Computational Complexity
You are coordially invited... Why?
When you get an invitation via email should you accept? How well targeted is it? Some real examples that I got. EXAMPLE ONE: I would like to invite you toclick...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Wave Video
Good, short, non-technical video all about Google Wave. Also, Businessweek asks if it will replace E-mail and Facebook. -
From The Eponymous Pickle
IPhone as a Security Camera
A $1.99 IPhone App called IP Camera can take a picture every 12 to 15 seconds and then posts the picture to a local network via WiFi. Effectively a security camera...
From Schneier on Security
Malware that Forges Bank Statements
This is brilliant: The sophisticated hack uses a Trojan horse program installed on the victim's machine that alters html coding before it's displayed in the user's...
From Putting People First
Charles Leadbeater and Tim Berners-Lee on the digital revolution
Digital Revolution (working title) is an open source documentary, due for transmission on BBC Two in 2010, that will take stock of 20 years of change brought about...
From The Noisy Channel
HCIR 2009 Proceedings Now Available
The HCIR 2009 proceedings are now available on the workshop web site. We’re planning to
From The Noisy Channel
Jeff Jarvis and Matt Cutts on the New FTC Blog Regulations
As has been anticipated for a while–and discussed during the Ethics of Blogging panel–the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has published explicit guidelines...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Leadership Cohort Ohio Update
I decided to read Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell as it was recommended to me by several people. That in turn let me to read his first book Tipping Point. This may...
From Schneier on Security
UK Defense Security Manual Leaked
Wow. It's over 2,000 pages, so it'll take time to make any sense of. According to Ross Anderson, who's given it a quick look over, "it seems to be the bureaucratic...
From Schneier on Security
Moving Hippos in the Post-9/11 World
It's a security risk: The crate was hoisted onto the flatbed with a 120-ton construction crane. For security reasons, there were no signs on the truck indicating...
From Putting People First
Microsoft demos multi-touch enabled mice concepts
Microsoft is exploring the concept of multi-touch mice, a new research paper reveals. The paper is being presented today as part of the User Interface Software...
From Putting People First
How to visualise energy savings
Kevin Anderson reports in The Guardian on how a new generation of monitors can generate data about your energy use and help you cut your costs and carbon. “These...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Focus Groups Failing for the Movies
Roger Dooley suggests that the recent mention of using brain scans to provide accurate and specific predictions for scary movie content really shows a further failure...
From Computational Complexity
Two Recent Complexity Books omit Mahaney's theorem- ovesight or wisdom?
In a prior post (a while back) I pondered if Mahaney's theorem (SAT \le_m S, S Spare, implies P=NP) should be taught in a basic grad course in complexity. I thought...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cellphones as our Remote Controls
Steve King writes an excellent blog: Small Business Labs on small business and entrepreneurial topics that is useful. Notable is a recent article on the increasing...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog