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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
Seizing Big Data Opportunity
A balanced view from E-Commerce Times about the topic. What it is and is definitely not. Recently have been asked for a concise definition of Big Data, and though...
From Putting People First
Designing for services beyond the screen
The producer-consumer model is so ingrained in our society that we tend to treat everything like a product—a one-and-done offering that can be pushed to the market...
From Putting People First
Design in Service: Crafting the Citizen Experience
Many agree that a combination of factors – a demand for better user experience, the rise of ubiquitous technologies and more readily accessible datasets – present...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
New AP Computer Science Principles Exam
The College Board announced this month a new Advanced Placement course and exam – Computer Science Principles (AP CSP). The course will introduce high school students...
From My Biased Coin
And Thanks For All the Fish
As my Area Administrator Tristen reminded me, "...today is officially your last day as my boss..." Monday is July 1, which officially ends my term as Area Dean...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Man Pulled Under by Squids
Video story on Animal Planet. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predictive Assistants that Take the Initiative
We worked with and visited the nonprofit research group SRI a number of times. They originally had been spun out of Stanford University. They were involved in...
From Schneier on Security
Me on EconTalk
Another audio interview; this one is mostly about security and power.
From Schneier on Security
My Talk at Google
Last week, I gave a talk at Google. It's another talk about power and security, my continually evolving topic-of-the-moment that could very well become my next...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Travel Industry Big Data
Thomas Davenport on the use of Big Data in the travel industry. A very nontechnical view of the potential, but not necessarily current use of Big Data in the online...
From Schneier on Security
Preventing Cell Phone Theft through Benefit Denial
Adding a remote kill switch to cell phones would deter theft. Here we can see how the rise of the surveillance state permeates everything about computer security...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
A Retrospective Report of the Simons Institute Visions on The Theory of Computing Symposium
The following is a special contribution to this blog from Christos Papadimitriou, C. Lester Hogan Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Teacher for a Year!
It's finally official: I get to teach for a year!Teach Your Heart Out / Krissy.Venosdale I've had this post bottled up for a while now, waiting for the papers to...
From Wild WebMink
IRS Blocks Open Source Non-Profit Status
Open source Foundations have a great track record for good governance of open source projects – think of the Apache Software Foundation, the Document Foundation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Emotions Based on Brain Activity
Out of Carnegie Mellon, new research about how brain activities link to emotions. Further research into nonconscious activity of the brain. Depends strongly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Research Tracks Phone Mood
A fairly detailed article on work MS is doing to track the mood of people using a smartphone. Called MoodScope. Of interest to enterprises that would like another...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Future of Autonomous Vehicles
Another good example of time forward looking search. From a company I have followed for some time: Recorded Future. Good understanding of possible futures has...
From The Eponymous Pickle
MOOC in Progress
Good examples of the MOOC educational process in progress. Will this be our future education process? How will it be layered with more traditional methods? Efficiencies...
From Schneier on Security
Malware that Foils Two-Factor Authentication
This is an interesting article about a new breed of malware that also hijack's the victim's phone text messaging system, to intercept one-time passwords sent via...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson