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Stealing Machine Learning Models via Prediction APIs. Florian Tramèr, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL); Fan Zhang, Cornell University; Ari Juels, Cornell Tech; Michael K. Reiter, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Thomas Ristenpart, Cornell Tech. This paper is included in the Proceedings of the 25th USENIX Security Symposium August 10–12, 2016. Austin, …
Information Technology: Agencies Need to Improve Their Application Inventories to Achieve Additional Savings, GAO-16-511: Published: Sep 29, 2016. Publicly Released: Sep 29, 2016. “Most of the 24 Chief Financial Officers (CFO) Act of 1990 agencies in the review fully met at least three of the four practices GAO identified to determine if agencies had complete …
Office of Personnel Management: Actions Are Needed to Help Ensure the Completeness of Political Conversion Data and Adherence to Policy, GAO-16-859: Published: Sep 30, 2016. Publicly Released: Sep 30, 2016. “When a new president takes office in January, scores of new political appointees will join the federal workforce. What happens to the old appointees? Some …
Carlett Spike and Pete Vernon, Columbia Journalism Review: “This year’s first presidential debate focused more on personality than any other in US history—befitting a match-up featuring two of the least popular candidates ever. And if the next two debates shape up like the first, the debate season as a whole would set a new high-water …
The phylogenetic roots of human lethal violence, José María Gómez, Miguel Verdú, Adela González-Megías& Marcos Méndez. Nature (2016) doi:10.1038/nature19758 “The psychological, sociological and evolutionary roots of conspecific violence in humans are still debated, despite attracting the attention of intellectuals for over two millennial. Here we propose a conceptual approach towards understanding these roots based on …
PRWeb: “The auto industry faces transformative times ahead, with potential for the United States market to reach peak car ownership by 2020, according to a new Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) report released [September 26, 2016]. The report, Peak Car Ownership, outlines what to expect as the United States moves away from the traditional model of …
“Most people growing up in advanced economies since World War II have been able to assume they will be better off than their parents. For much of the time, that assumption has proved correct: except for a brief hiatus in the 1970s, buoyant global economic and employment growth over the past 70 years saw all …
“The latest World Economic Forum Global Competitiveness Report reveals the world’s most competitive economies – and there’s a familiar face at the top of the rankings. The Global Competitiveness Index assesses the competitiveness of 138 economies around the world. In a time of “persistent slow growth”, the report says it is a “critical reminder of the importance of competitiveness in …
“The U.S. Data Federation supports data interoperability and harmonization across Federal, state, and local government agencies by highlighting common data formats, API specifications, and metadata vocabularies….The U.S. Data Federation will support government-wide data standardization and data federation initiatives across both Federal agencies and local governments. This is intended to be a fundamental coordinating mechanism for …
After Pearl Harbor, a fearful Library of Congress secretly stashed the crown jewels of U.S. history for safekeeping. This was the rescue plan. By Stephen Puleo. September 25, 2016.
National Academies: “At least 17.7 million individuals in the United States are providing care and support to an older parent, spouse, friend, or neighbor who needs help because of a limitation in their physical, mental, or cognitive functioning. The circumstances of individual caregivers are extremely varied. They may live with, nearby, or far away from the …
“Moving toward gender equality is not only a moral and social issue; it is also important to future economic growth in the United Kingdom. A new report from the McKinsey Global Institute,The power of parity: Advancing women’s equality in the United Kingdom, explores the economic potential of narrowing gender gaps at the national level as well as across …
