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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
Cart Device at Bloom
Cart mounted shopping devices continue to be tested. Here again the Concierge device, previously reported on here, is in limited time test at Food Lion's Bloom'...
From My Biased Coin
GPU News
Since I've now co-authored a paper on GPUs, I'm now "in-the-loop" (thanks to my co-author John Owens) on the news of NVIDIA's announcement of its "next generation"...
From My Biased Coin
Justice!
Harvard is putting the lectures (and other materials) online for a fantastic course, Justice, taught by Michael Sandel. It's a class on moral reasoning, exactly...
From Schneier on Security
Nice Use of Diversion During a Robbery
During a daring bank robbery in Sweden that involved a helicopter, the criminals disabled a police helicopter by placing a package with the word "bomb" near the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
FaceCard Application
Facecard: A PayPal like third part Facebook application that allows the transferral of funds. Intrigued by its possible use for non-profit donation work. Does...
From Putting People First
The user experience of smart phones
Several articles on the smart phone user experience: Getting emotional about mobile phones A nationwide study of over 3000 people has found that there is a direct...
From Schneier on Security
Reproducing Keys from Photographs
Reproducing keys from distant and angled photographs: Abstract:The access control provided by a physical lock is based on the assumption that the information content...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Wave Threaten Social Networks?
Will Google Wave </">threaten Facebook and Twitter?-
From The Eponymous Pickle
RFID Improving Inventory Accuracy
It is what we ultimately expected from RFID tagging: a better understanding what you have and where. That would lead to less out-of-stocks and less over-ordering...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unilever: Blends of New and Old Advertising
From Knowledge@Wharton: Will the Future of Advertising Be a Blend of Old and New Media?. Unilever's "Dirt is Good," is considered by experts to be a perfect example...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Data Breach and P2P Bills Pass House Committee
The House Energy and Commerce Committee marked up two bills this morning addressing concerns over the use of consumers' personal information and the potential exposure...
From Schneier on Security
Immediacy Affects Risk Assessments
New experiment demonstrates what we already knew: That's because people tend to view their immediate emotions, such as their perceptions of threats or risks, as...
From Computational Complexity
The Journal Manifesto
Some people say that for-profit journals do not currently serve our community well. Some even think they cannot do so. Others think they are doing a fine job as...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-09-30
BHRA: Atlantic Avenue Tunnel This looks like a pleasantly different excursion - I'll have to watch for tours for next time I am...
From Schneier on Security
The Doghouse: Crypteto
Crypteto has a 49,152-bit symmetric key: The most important issue of any encryption product is the 'bit key strength'. To date the strongest known algorithm has...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Communications Tool to Roll
The long awaited Google Wave tool is about to roll to early users. ' ... designed to consolidate features from e-mail, instant messaging, blogging, wikis, multimedia...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Counting Shoppers Thermally
From Storefrontbacktalk. Video based tracking systems continue to evolve: ' ... Many retail stores rely on customer-counting systems triggered by body heat despite...
From The Eponymous Pickle