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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
Space Terrorism
Space terrorism? Yes, space terrorism. This article, by someone at the European Space Policy Institute, hypes a terrorst threat I've never seen hyped before....
From Computational Complexity
The P vs NP quiz Show. NP! NP! NP!
Some random thoughts about quiz shows. THOUGHT ONE: There could be a quiz show based on P and NP. We all think that FINDING an answer is harder than VERIFYING...
From Wild WebMink
Open Core: Bad For Software Freedom
The open core model is being feted as the new default open source business model. But I assert it does not deliver and sustain the principle that delivers cost...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visualizing Latency
In the CACM:, technical but interesting, The last sentence is telling, if you have to explain it, is it a good visualization? Yes, the underlying technology you...
From Schneier on Security
Baby Terrorists
This, from Congressman Louie Gohmert of Texas, is about as dumb as it gets: I talked to a retired FBI agent who said that one of the things they were looking at...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics Magazine, Focus on Forecasting
The July/August issue of Analytics Magazine cover enterprise forecasting. A tricky area I spent much time working in. This magazine is always a practical place...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
NoSQL or NoJoin?
Several major players built alternatives to conventional database systems: Google created BigTable, Amazon built Dynamo and Facebook initiated Cassandra. There...
From Computational Complexity
The Lefthanded Latino Lesbians in Algebraic Topology Workshop
There was a Women in Theory Workshop at Princeton From June 19-23. ***SORELLE***, who was there, has some intelligent and interesting things to say about it...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Who Are Your Twitter Followers?
GigaOhm does a good job providing a case study of how to best understand your Twitter followers. This starts to answer a question I have had recently: Just who...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Even the Tech Sophisticated get Phished
A cautionary tale about password use. Cory Doctorow gets Phished. Cory Doctorow: Persistence Pays Parasites
From The Eponymous Pickle
Private Label
UPI article on the increasing use of private label by cost conscious consumers. Useful statistics.
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of June 28
July 1 Hearing: The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will hold a hearing on using cloud computing for federal information technology needs. 10...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Do we have to make computer science cool again?
I have been told that once upon a time the ISTE conference (back when it was still called NECC) had a lot of computer science education content. That
From Wild WebMink
? Unexpected Harm
Sitting straight ‘bad for backs’ Somehow my body had already worked out that 135
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Conversations at ISTE
Yesterday was more or less the opening of ISTE. These conference are sort of interesting in that they start gradually. Wednesday ISTE will end somewhat abruptly...
From Schneier on Security
Third SHB Workshop
I'm at SHB 2010, the Third Interdisciplinary Workshop on Security and Human Behavior, at Cambridge University. This is a two-day gathering of computer securityprogram...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nielsen and McKinsey Social Venture
A joint venture that links several groups I know well: " ... Nielsen and management consultancy McKinsey & Company have formed a joint venture to help clients improve...
From The Noisy Channel
SIGIR 2010 and SimInt 2010
I’m looking forward to attending SIGIR 2010 in a few weeks and particularly to the SimInt 2010 Workshop on the Automated Evaluation of Interactive Information Retrieval...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog