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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 Computer Science Teachers Association
Aligning Our Program with the CSTA Standards
Increasing the availability of Computer Science offerings for all students, especially those who are members of underrepresented groups, is going to require anCSTA...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Playing the Varied Games of Life
I had heard of the startup Knack. The HBR discusses the process of evaluating the game of life. And evaluate how you play this game. Is this useful mostly for...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Are C++ and Java declining?
In a recent Dr. Dobb’s article, Binstock announced the decline of Java and C++: By all measures, C++ use declined last year, demonstrating that C++11 was not enough...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented Reality for Wearable Computing
Integrate your contexts, both on you and around you. I like the idea of having an all over aumentation as required. This blog covers related topics. ViaMetaio...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Internet of Industrial Things
Have had a number of interesting communications from academics working the industrial edge recently. Here on the Industrial net of things. Via GE, includes a...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Using The Technology We Preach
Habits die hard. I printed out some end of year surveys for my students to fill out about me (as teacher) and the courses they were finishing last week. Because...
From Schneier on Security
Adware Vendors Buy and Abuse Chrome Extensions
This is not a good development: To make matters worse, ownership of a Chrome extension can be transferred to another party, and users are never informed when an...
From Putting People First
How should we analyse our lives?
Alex “Sandy” Pentland, a professor of computational social sciences at MIT Media Lab and others like him are now convinced that the great academic divide between...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Mining Day
I am planning to attend:The Center for Business Analytics in the Carl H. Lindner College of Business at the University of Cincinnati is pleased to announceDataWednesday...
From The Eponymous Pickle
View of Gamification Around the World
A survey from the gamification summit. Some interesting, but not detailed examples. I would not have expected the examples to be very different by region. I...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visualizing Growth in Emerging Markets
In Tableau Public: An example of using interactive data visualization to understand expanding markets. Nicely and simply done. Would be interesting to further...
From The Eponymous Pickle
NantMobile and Macy's
A former colleague of mine now runs NantMobile. In the press it is reported that they are working with Macy's Its interesting too that the company is owned"...
From Schneier on Security
CTX4000: NSA Exploit of the Day
Today's device -- this one isn't an implant -- from the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) group implant catalog: CTX4000 (TS//SI//REL TO USA,FVEY) The CTX4000...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Anticipatory Shipping
In TechCrunch, a quick look at Amazon's patent, and implementation of what is being called 'anticipatory sales'. Or shipping before you choose to buy. While...
From Computational Complexity
We don't care about Ballroom Dancing. Should we?
YOU got into your undergrad school because not only were you good at Math but you were on the Fencing Team and in the Latin Club (so you could taunt your opponents...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Experience Design
New book just brought to my attention. " ... Experience Design also serves as a reference tool for both designers and business leaders to help teams collaborate...
From Schneier on Security
DDOS Attacks Using NTP
This is new: The NTP method first began to appear late last year. To bring down a server such as one running "League of Legends," the attackers trick NTP servers...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 20 January 2014
It’s the calm before the storm for me. Tomorrow starts semester exams at my school and I’ll be busy this week grading semester projects. I’m a huge fan of end of...
From Writing
A thousand lives
The other day, I was going through some old files on my computer, and stumbled across a paper that blew my mind. It was a technical write up of an experiment with...
From The Eponymous Pickle