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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 Schneier on Security
Is Cybersecurity a Profession?
A National Academy of Sciences panel says no: Sticking to the quality control aspect of the report, professionalization, it says, has the potential to attractreport...
From The Eponymous Pickle
ARHouse: Architectural Insertion App
A correspondent in the area of augmented reality has sent along a writeup on a newly developed App for delivering 3D architectural models in real spaces with new...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
CS Principles and the CS 10k Initiative / GHC13
As the opening keynote here at GHC reminded us, computer science has a supply problem. The number of people we need to create technology is increasing at a much...
From Putting People First
Interaction-Ivrea, Arduino and Intel’s Galileo
Intel’s Arduino-compatible open-source Galileo development board was launched today in Italy at Rome’s Maker Faire. Rightfully so, as the initiative has such deep...
From Putting People First
Dancing to silent algorithms
More and more, we live our lives according to the unknown auspices of machine codes, writes Frank Swain. “Our lives are influenced by technologies not simply as...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson Does Research with Recipes
In MIT Tech Review: Intelligence for research. The model of food recipe construction and how it might be applied to other questions. Again, in our own experimentation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fast Approaching: Free Innovation and Design MOOC
Coming October 7! (Background and Video) Full Announcement in BrowserFREE University of Cincinnati Innovation ClassLearn from the leaders in design thinking...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Changing Education
Good piece in Cisco blog on how education is changing. More than just MOOC. Easy inclusion of video is a big part of this. Just today had a connection with...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Spirit of Innovation Challenge
A new competitive event for students via this announcement from the CSTA mailing list. >The Spirit of Innovation Challenge is an excellent way to help your students...
From Schneier on Security
On Anonymous
Gabriella Coleman has published an interesting analysis of the hacker group Anonymous: Abstract: Since 2010, digital direct action, including leaks, hacking and...
From Computational Complexity
Celebrating Maths in Oxford
This week I'm in Oxford for the opening of the new Andrew Wiles Mathematical Institute building and the Clay Research Conference including on workshop on New....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Monsanto Bets a $ Billion on Big Data Analytics
In Computerworld: The connections to micro weather forecasting and insurance are particularly interesting. This is another example of the large investments"...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
An Exciting First Day at GHC13
Today was our first full day in Minneapolis for this year's edition of the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. It's so nice to live the conferencecheck...
From My Biased Coin
Some Advice on Entrepreneurship from the AH meeting
At the Andreessen Horowitz academic round table (see past post), there was various advice, some of it contradictory, for professor-types interested in startingAMPLab...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Glass Alternative in Japan
And yet more in the world of wearable devices, this from Japan: At least in its prototype this looks fairly clunky ...." ... This week at Ceatec, a technology trade...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intel Wearables
Even Intel is doing wearables. On Intel's New Devices Group: Did not realize they were a player until I saw this: " ... When most people think about the future...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Mobility
In the Cisco Blog: Is it an disappearing act? I am inclined to think it will, like the phone, still be visible and mostly selective for some time. I do like...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crowdsourcing Maps?
Waze, now part of Google maps, also made me thing of this, at least in outsourcing the metadata about the maps. Can maps be crowdsourced?
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Stealing Strategies
How constructive are strategy stealing proofs? David Gale was a famous mathematician and economist, who passed away just over five years ago. I had the honor of...
From Schneier on Security