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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 Computational Complexity
Counting Descriptions- a ``new'' complexity class
Let nσ(w) is the number of σ's in w. We often ask our students about languages like { w | na(w) = 2nb(w) } (CFL but not REG). Lets formally define languages that...
From Schneier on Security
Unwitting Drug Smugglers
This is a story about a physicist who got taken in by an imaginary Internet girlfriend and ended up being arrested in Argentina for drug smuggling. Readers of...
From Putting People First
Is Open Government working?
In an insightful blog post, Reboot principal Panthea Lee asks if open government initiatives make citizens more informed and engaged, and make governments more...
From Putting People First
What can ethnography bring to the study of deliberative democracy?
Open government initiatives offer new, often technologically enabled avenues for civic participation. But which populations have the access and motivation to use...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tyranny of Things
In GigaOM: This reminds me of how our devices and software have started to control us. Smartphonesvibrating and a sales forecast changing what we do next. Algorithms...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Silicon Valley Running out of Innovation
Says Alan Kay, who we met a number of times at Xerox PARC in the day. We used his Smalltalk and Logo languages for AI projects. We respected his thoughts about...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Thinking Through the Forecast
I just caught this article in the Insiders Group blog and thought I would comment about our demand forecasting experiences and how they can be applied to the midsize...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Science Magazine on Computer Science careers
In two articles in Science – the flagship publication of the American Association for the Advancement of Science – CCC Chair Ed Lazowska is interviewed on career...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Optimizing On-Shelf Availability
Another example, in Progressive Grocer, of how Wal-Mart is active in analytical methods. " ... A new service from Plano, Texas-based sales and marketing services...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data Disaster, Get the Data Right.
Stephen Few on the problems with too much analytics before you get the data right. Getting the data right. And visualizing it to make sure you understand it ....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Super Bowl Neuromarketing Study
Neurorelay summarizes the yearly Sands Research Super Bowl advertisement study. Well done overview of method and results. A few years ago I had a chance to statistically...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Relearning Math
One of the problems with teaching students how to tell the computer how to do calculations is that they have to learn a new way of expressing formulas. For example...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Advanced tips for dealing with your email inbox
I probably receive 50 emails a day, not counting spam. Give it a week, and I could easily end up with 200 unread emails in my inbox. When that happens, it feels...
From Schneier on Security
Security Awareness Training
Should companies spend money on security awareness training for their employees? It's a contentious topic, with respected experts on both sides of the debate.right...
From The Eponymous Pickle
I am a Curator too
I have been playing with Flipboard for some time. On the iPhone and Pad. A very nice, image-oriented way to organize and deliver information. A more sophisticated...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Friendly Home Printable Robots
From the NSF: This seems to be an overreach based on current capabilities. Though you can't argue with the goal. " ... The U.S. National Science Foundation...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Supercomputing Highlighted by NSF
Scientific breakthroughs are no longer happening only in the field or in scientific labs. Rather, they are occurring on computers. This is due in large part to...
From Schneier on Security
The NSA's Cryptolog
The NSA has published declassified versions of its Cryptolog newsletter. All the issues from Aug 1974 through Summer 1997 are on the web, although there are some...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Turtle Graphics–Some Student Images
Earlier this week I introduced a simple Turtle graphics program. The program itself (written in Visual Basic) was created by one of the teachers I work with. It...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science