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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 Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
D Plus O Equals Do
Our 500th post comes with a non-Federal proposal Cropped from HeinOnline source. Barack Obama is the 44th President of the United States, and the 43rd person to...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Funding science: When bureaucrats get out of control
Throughout most of the world, scientists are almost entirely dependent on one source of funding: their government. So every few years (or more often), professors...
From Schneier on Security
Feds Target Polygraph-Beating Company
A company that teaches people how to beat lie detectors is under investigation.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Game Based Learning
Via the ACM: Digital Game-Based Learning. Abstract: Research published by University of Rochester neuroscientists C. Shawn Green and Daphne Bavelier has grabbed...
From Putting People First
Ethnographic stories for market learning
The July 2013 issue of the Journal of Marketing (a publication of AMA, the American Marketing Association) describes the results of a comprehensive study (pdf)...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Privacy, Protection, and Personal Safety
One of the great things about working in a top-10 computer science department is that I get to see which fields are really hot. At the University of Washington...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Trusting a Data Scientist
A Challenge: Just because a study contains numbers or big data or statistics does not mean it is correct. So you should not completely trust any scientist for business...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Civilizing Customer Behavior
In the HBR Blog Network: An anonymous, large network of commenters can lead to some nasty and self serving behavior. We all read customer reviews with an element...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Introducing the GHC13 Communities Committee
Did you know that the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing has a strong online presence? From Tweeting to blogging to note taking, we've got you covered...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Management Platform Vendors
Examining the breadth of Data Activation: The Data Management PlatformOne vendor, BlueKai, defines DMP as:" ... A DMP is a centralized data management platform...
From Computational Complexity
The Dream
I have this theory that everybody's notion of "recent history" starts not from their memories but from their birth date. Case in point: Billy Joel's We Didn't Start...
From Schneier on Security
Evading Internet Censorship
This research project by Brandon Wiley -- the tool is called "Dust" -- looks really interesting. Here's the description of his Defcon talk: Abstract: The greatest...
From My Biased Coin
Back
I haven't posted for a while, primarily because I started by sabbatical by going to Copenhagen for most of August. I was primarily visiting the IT University of...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Why Girls Don’t Go Into Computer Science (Infographic)
June Lin from Play-I sent me this infographic which I found interesting enough to share. Play-i is building educational, programmable robots for kids. Not sure...
From Putting People First
Exploring the use of tablets in educational settings
MindShift, a service by KQED and NPR, has published a four-part series to explore the four dimensions of using tablets in educational settings, examining how teachers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nokia Looks at the Connected Car
In GigaOM: Not unexpected, though I was a little surprised seeing Nokia here. A good overview of that this might look like: " ... Nokia believes its can useRumors...
From Schneier on Security
More on NSA Data Collection
There's an article from Wednesday's Wall Street Journal that gives more details about the NSA's data collection efforts. The system has the capacity to reach roughly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
McDonald's and Augmented Reality
A good description of how McDonald's is using mobile augmented reality for corporate sustainability PR and positioning in Europe using games. Via Metaio. " ... The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Seeking Photo Collages
In Fast Company: Linea Photosharing. A great idea, simple design, a sort of Facebook without all the other complexity. I also often used images to record and...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog