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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
History of Rational Economic Forecasting
In the Harvard Business Review Blogs: May require registration. Good thoughts. When I taught forecasting it was always about understanding how the forecast was...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stop Small Thinking about Big Data
A good, free 15 page pamphlet about Big Data. Co Sponsored by Teradata. Looks to be a set of objective observations about the opportunities and cautions. Integration...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The myth of the scientist as a disinterested individual
We like to have an idealized view of the scientist. He or she is someone who chose against a high-paying career to pursue the ideals of science and academia. Unlike...
From Schneier on Security
Building an Online Lie Detector
There's an interesting project to detect false rumors on the Internet. The EU-funded project aims to classify online rumours into four types: speculation -- such...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
DARPA Announces New Program in Big Data
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced the launch of the Big Mechanism program to develop automated technologies that will help explain...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
University of Arkansas Program For Minority Students & Majority Women
An interesting looking summer program. One has to get there on their own from what I can tell but no cost other than that. Open to 11th/12th graders. TECHNOLOGY...
From The Eponymous Pickle
3D Sensor Enabled Smartphone
In Mashable: Project Tango from Google. Quite an interesting effort. Relates to a number of our indoor navigation experiments. Ready here to do a retail store...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Twisting Phone
My son pointed me to this iPhone App, that twists a phone on its long axis, to enable automated panorama images. It was featured recently on Shark Tank. An example...
From Schneier on Security
Brian Krebs
Nice profile of Brian Krebs, cybersecurity journalist: Russian criminals routinely feed Mr. Krebs information about their rivals that they obtained through hacks...
From Schneier on Security
CANDYGRAM: NSA Exploit of the Day
Today's item from the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) group implant catalog: CANDYGRAM (S//SI//REL) Mimics GSM cell tower of a target network. Capable(S...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Twitter Accounts for CSTA Members To Follow
Patrice Gans has a great post on the CSTA blog about Creating a Professional Learning Network that I wanted to share. Normally I would just include a link on my...
From Wild WebMink
Sun Friends On The Move
I see that two friends I worked with at Sun — most notably creating blogs.sun.com — are on the move. Danese Cooper has decided that she can take on one more corporation’s...
From Wild WebMink
Stand Up For ODF In The UK
Originally posted on Meshed Insights & Knowledge:Showing that no issue is actually sorted until the end of the process is reached, Microsoft is trying to get its...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented Reality and 3D Remote Manufacturing
Had explored the close connection between augmented reality and remote manufacturing / 3D Printing. Its interesting to see that the AR company Metaio is now offering...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Creating a Professional Learning Network
For the first time in my teaching career, I am teaching at a school with other computer science instructors. Not all computer teachers are as lucky; many are the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Comcast and Time Warner
Locally we are part of Time Warner. Whose support I am less than enthusiastic about. What will the change mean? I would prefer some competition. In Knowledge...
From Schneier on Security
RCS Spyware and Citizen Lab
Remote-Controlled System (RCS) is a piece of spyware sold exclusively to governments by a Milan company called Hacking Team. Recently, Citizen Lab found this spyware...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
The Joy of Teaching Computer Science
Recently The Atlantic published an article, “The Joy of Teaching Computer Science in the Age of Facebook.” The article has a Q&A with Mehran Sahami, a professor...
From Apophenia
Can someone explain WhatsApp’s valuation to me?
Unless you were off the internet yesterday, it’s old news that WhatsApp was purchased by Facebook for a gobsmacking $16B + $3B in employee payouts. And the founder...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson