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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
New DropBox
A future view of the intentions of Dropbox. " ... Dropbox wants to be your always-on hard drive, whether you’re using an iPad, an Android phone, or a PC. And....
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Improving Computer Science and Programming Education for Women Improves It for Everyone
We know that computing fields are gender imbalanced. While 57% of all undergraduate degrees in the United States were earned by women in 2009, women made up only...
From Schneier on Security
The Effectiveness of Privacy Audits
This study concludes that there is a benefit to forcing companies to undergo privacy audits: "The results show that there are empirical regularities consistent...
From The Eponymous Pickle
DARPA Robotics Challenge Results
In IEEE Spectrum: Very good piece on the challenge, its essential components and the results announced today. This is interesting too because it describes elemental...
From Schneier on Security
Another Perspective on the Value of Privacy
A philosophical perspective: But while Descartes's overall view has been rightly rejected, there is something profoundly right about the connection between privacy...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How Important Is The First CS Course?
I’ve been reading a lot from CS educators lately. Regular readers know I am running a series of interviews with teachers from all over. As I write this I have five...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Augmented Telescopes: Tellscopes
In Fast Company: A telescope called a Tellscope. A terrestial rather than a celestial scope, with elements of augmented reality. The article discusses the hardware...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
FCC Open Internet Advisory Committee Meeting on July 9
The FCC’s Open Internet Advisory Committee will meet tomorrow, Tuesday, July 9, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. EDT, to discuss issues related to its four working groups...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Garmin Heads up Display
Garmin has introduced a Heads up display interface (HUD) , to be placed on a car windshield, to be made available later this year. " ... The HUD is a small box...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Fast integer compression in Java
Last year, we published a fast C++ library to quickly compress and decompress arrays of integers. Out of habit, I ported it to Java and published it under the name...
From Schneier on Security
Big Data Surveillance Results in Bad Policy
Evgeny Morozov makes a point about surveillance and big data: it just looks for useful correlations without worrying about causes, and leads people to implement...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Smartphone Metadata Gathering
Another claim for a vendor gathering metadata from Smartphones, here from Motorola. Metadata, or 'data about data', has been trivialized as a source of personal...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Reflections on EdTech Conferences
This was the second year in a row that I didn’t attend ISTE. I really miss it but events conspired against me. But I’ve been reading a lot from people who did go...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of July 8
July 9 Workshop: The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board will hold a public workshop on surveillance programs. Technology experts will be part of at least...
From The Eponymous Pickle
NumberSense Reviewed
I have been looking for books that explain the difference of what I call analytics, in my long time consulting practice and the newly hyped arena of Big Data. ...
From Computational Complexity
AltaVista versus Google
Today Yahoo is closing AltaVista, the best search engine before Google. The news caught me by surprise, AltaVista still existed? A number of commentators attribute...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Herman Miller's Living Office
We worked with Herman Miller in the area of innovative office design. This is a short article on their concept of the living office. Although I have not been...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Mining Concepts and Techniques
Bought some time ago, but finally exercised in some detail: Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques, by Jiawei Han and Micheline Kamber. There are later editions...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Private Label Brands Hold Ground
An indication that private label brands are holding their own after a slow recovery. " ... While private labels have existed for some time, the recession proved...
From Putting People First