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Facebook Announces Messenger Security Features that Don't Compromise Privacy
Note that this is "announced," so we don't know when it's actually going to be implemented. Facebook today announced new features…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Knowledge Graphs, Knowledge Panels
Want to build from these basics. an introduction:A reintroduction to our Knowledge Graph and knowledge panelsDanny Sullivan In Google BlogPublic Liaison for Search...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CIFellows 2020 Application Guidelines Updated and May 26th Webinar
Last week the Computing Research Association (CRA) and Computing Community Consortium (CCC) announced the new Computing Innovation Fellows (CIFellows) Program for...
From Schneier on Security
Criminals and the Normalization of Masks
I was wondering about this: Masks that have made criminals stand apart long before bandanna-wearing robbers knocked over stagecoaches in the Old West and ski-masked...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Like People, AI will also Fail.
A very nicely done, non-technical and usefully skeptical view of AI. Making the case that even if your AI solves a problem today, it is likely to fail tomorrow,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Forestry System for Growth Prediction
Another example of my previous work in forestry. Would have been useful to manage harvesting schedules.Researcher to Receive Top Global Forestry Award From Swedish...
From Computational Complexity
Obit for Richard Dudley
Richard M. (Dick) Dudley died on Jan. 19, 2020 (NOT from Coronavirus).You can find obituaries for him here, here, and here and an interview with him from 2019...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Embedded Security Workshop Report Released
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently released the Leadership in Embedded Security workshop report. The workshop was organized by former CCC Council...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching is About Relationships
Today I was online with my students for about 90 minutes of a planned 55 minute class. One of my students joined the Google Meet session early and we chatted for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Spot Herding Sheep and other Farm Tasks
Intrigued by the use of robotics for agricultural and other classic farming applications. Here the use of the Boston Dynamics Spot ... and a link to a video of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Why We Need Bayesian
This link is first a reminder to myself that we need to continually promote means of risk and uncertainty awareness in models. Meta-reasoning is always important...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented Paper as a New Media
Good illustrations at the link. Clever thought, we still will use paper (and other media) How can we effectively get important virtual content there too. Saw...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple, Google and Europe on Contact Tracing
Continuing to follow this. Since Europe has different ideas about security, some disagreement was inevitable.Apple, Google Start to Win Over Europe to Their Virus...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alternatives to Powerpoint
I used to take a stronger point on this, but now think that powerpoint works, is understood by many people, and I have lots of my previous presentations therePowerPoint...
From Schneier on Security
AI and Cybersecurity
Ben Buchanan has written "A National Security Research Agenda for Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence." It's really good -- well worth reading....
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
Now Available: Country-Based Evaluation of Websites for Acceptance of Email Addresses in 2020
The Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) has published a new country-based evaluation of email acceptance rates based upon previous testing of the top 1,000...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microwaves Sensing Your Health?
This struck me at first as being even more interesting than it actually seems to be: Detect what machines you are using. And derive some health measures from behavior...
From CERIAS Blog
A Test of Time: COAST and an award-winning paper
The Paper IEEE Test of Time Award Today, various awards were announced at the 41st IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy, including Test of Time Awards. One...
From CERIAS Blog
A Test of Time: COAST and an award-winning paper
The Paper IEEE Test of Time Award Today, various awards were announced at the 41st IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy, including Test of Time Awards. One...
From CERIAS Blog
A Test of Time: COAST and an award-winning paper
The Paper IEEE Test of Time Award Today, various awards were announced at the 41st IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy, including Test of Time Awards. One...
From The Eponymous Pickle