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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 Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computer Science Response to “The STEM Crisis: Reality or Myth?”
On November 11, 2013, The Chronicle for Higher Education published an article titled “The STEM Crisis: Reality or Myth?” which stated that many researchers do in...
From Schneier on Security
Tor Appliance
Safeplug is an easy-to-use Tor appliance. I like that it can also act as a Tor exit node.![[Report] Leading Business by Design](/system/assets/0000/1953/030209_Vanderbeeken_Mark_250.small_square.jpg?1476779420&1260281963)
From Putting People First
[Report] Leading Business by Design
Design is now firmly on the business agenda. No longer the cherry on the cake for high-end goods and luxury brands, over the past decade it has gained relevance...
From Putting People First
Melinda Gates on the power of human-centered design
Interesting quote from a Wired interview with Melinda Gates and Paul Farmer: WIRED: What innovation do you think is changing the most lives in the developing world...
From Putting People First
[Report] Next generation working life
How will work be organized in the Networked Society? Fundamental changes are taking place. Cultural changes and rapid technological development are changing the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hadoop and a Pending Metadata Mess
An intriguing point about the tool and its use, and general documentation of data, its origins and measurements (metadata) : " ... Why is Hadoop so popular? There...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nano satellites Powered by a Smartphone
In CWorld: I like the modular simplicity. " .... Fleet of CubeSat nanosatellites now orbiting earth, sending back data CubeSats built by NASA and various colleges...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Python Displacing R?
Interesting suggestion. But no real data is given. They are different beasts, Python is a general purpose computer language, while R is designed to work with...
From The Eponymous Pickle
iMFlux Plastics
Brought to my attention again, also see previous article on this.SHAPING TECHNOLOGYiMFLUX, Inc, is a technology and innovation leader in plastics processing. The...
From My Biased Coin
News Worth Reading
There's been plenty of interesting stuff popping up in the news, so it's time to collect a bit.This article describes a current patent case in cryptography, where...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology Policy highlights computing at it’s November Meeting
The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology Policy (PCAST) met on November 12, 2013 and highlighted computing throughout the meeting. The first...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Theorems From Physics?
Can information physics extract proofs from reality? IEEE source Rolf Landauer was a physicist and computer engineer who spent most of his career at IBM north of...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
New Program at NSF includes Computer Science Education Research
The Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE) in the Education and Human Resources (EHR) Directorate at the National Science Foundation (NSF) has released a new...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Hour of Code Update 26 November 2013
The Hour of Code events for CS Ed Week is shaping up to be really big. Are you involved? Here's an update I got from the founder of code.org this week. We announced...
From Schneier on Security
The FBI Might Do More Domestic Surveillance than the NSA
This is a long article about the FBI's Data Intercept Technology Unit (DITU), which is basically its own internal NSA. It carries out its own signals intelligence...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gamification Site
From Bunchball, a blog I had the chance to look at again about Gamification. I was asked to provide some examples in this space, and this is a good place to go...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Carver Mead on Quantum Computing
In CACM: Carver Mead was an early inspiration for our advanced computing and sensor work. In particular about the use of optical sensors. Here he writes...
From CERIAS Blog
The Passing of A Pioneer
Willis H. Ware, a highly respected and admired pioneer in the fields of computing security and privacy, passed away on November 22nd, 2013, aged 93. Born August...
From CERIAS Blog
The Passing of A Pioneer
Willis H. Ware, a highly respected and admired pioneer in the fields of computing security and privacy, passed away on November 22nd, 2013, aged 93. Born August...
From CERIAS Blog