Now that buying .XXX domain names is an option, universities are snapping them up in an effort to protect their brands. These universities include the University of Kansas, the University of Michigan, Indiana University, Purdue University, Ball State University, Grand Valley State University, Central Michigan University, Penn State University, University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University, Indiana University, etc. None of these universities will be doing anything at all with the .XXX domain names.
This week Las Vegas hosted the Black Hat technical security conference, where researchers Alessandro Acquisti, Ralph Gross and Fred Stutzman presented a study demonstrating that basic facial recognition software can easily identify the faces of strangers both online and offline and connect that with “sensitive personal data” in real time. Mashable reports that such sensitive personal data includes predicting the Social Security numbers of strangers by combining facial recognition and publicly available images from social networking sites with SSN prediction algorithms.
Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) has hired Johnny Chung Lee. Lee was is famous for hacking the Wii and for being a developer in Kinect. Now Lee will be the “Rapid Evaluator” at Google. Lee said that he spent about three years working on human tracking algorithms for the Kinect. Lee had worked at Microsoft’s Applied Sciences group. He has a PhD in Human-Computer interaction from Carnegie Mellon.
Research In Motion Limited (NASDAQ:RIMM) is working with BMW and the Army to develop a new tablet computer. RIM is working with BMW on the audio system and is using technology from the Army Crusher tank. RIM wants to really make their tablet computer stand out.
It looks like Google executives are in high demand for graduation commencements seeing as how CEO Eric Schmidt spoke at the Carnegie Mellon graduation commencement on Saturday. Earlier this month, Google co-founder Larry Page spoke at the University of Michigan commencement.
Larry Page’s speech took a more personal approach where he talked about how his parents met and what was life like growing up in Michigan. Eric Schmidt decided to take an approach where he talks about the past, present, and future of technology.
What I liked about Larry Page’s speech is that many of the people that came from Michigan are very proud of where they come from especially because of the struggle that the state is having with unemployment rates. The automotive sector in Michigan carries a legacy and everyone in Michigan knows someone that is associated with that industry. This is why it made sense why Page focused on a more personal speech while Schmidt could focus on technology in Steel City (Pittsburgh).
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