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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 Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Sponsored Workshop on Extreme Scale Design Automation (ESDA)
The following is a special contribution to this blog from Patrick H. Madden, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Binghamton University. In this blog entry...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Marketing Analytics
An interesting set of examples, from GE and others: " ... Offloading content development has allowed the company to develop an overarching social media strategy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Revolutionizing Disease Treatment
Via a social network. Noted in the CACM: Relates to some of my own writings on health care networks, " ... The social network PatientsLikeMe plans to build...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Online Grocery Shopping
Interesting connections that are driving the increasing use of online for grocery shopping. " ... According to a Hartman Group report, 18% of households purchased...
From Putting People First
How teachers are using technology at home and in their classrooms
A survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project of teachers who instruct American middle and secondary school students finds that digital technologies have...
From Putting People First
Future Imperfect: Evgeny Morozov vs. Steven Johnson
A couple of weeks ago Evgeny Morozov and Steven Johnson had a very public spat (writers’ favorite kind), prompted by Evgeny’s review of Johnson’s latest book in...
From Putting People First
On legitimacy, place and the anthropology of the Internet
In this thoughtful piece for Ethnography Matters, Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) discusses the ways in which the internet has transformed the relationship between...
From Putting People First
Computer interfaces: tech’s next great frontier
Since the invention of personal computing three decades ago, how we interact with computers has remained about the same: monitor, keyboard, mouse. Monitors have...
From Computational Complexity
Our Government at Work
Barring a surprise deal, the sequester goes into effect tomorrow. NSF Director (and soon to be CMU President) Subra Suresh announced a sequestration impact statement...
From Schneier on Security
Brazen Physical Thefts
Three brazen robberies are in the news this week. The first was a theft at a small museum of gold nuggets worth $750,000: Police said the daring heist happened...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Your ideas needed: Coding is to computer science as X is to Y
Yesterday we posted a link to a terrific new video by code.org extolling the virtues of learning to program. Despite the “learn to code” rhetoric, code.org is really...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
CSTA Annual Conference News
Planning is well underway for 2013 CSTA Annual Conference, formerly known as the CS&IT Symposium. This year's conference will be held in Quincy, MA (just outside...
From The Eponymous Pickle
GMDC
Brought to my attention: GMDC.org " ... GMDC is the premier non-profit global trade association dedicated to serving Health Beauty Wellness and General Merchandise...
From The Eponymous Pickle
CPGs Replace Likes with Call to Action
In Adage: " ... RB, Lever Add Interactive Games, Digital Deals to Online Branding Efforts ... " ... After studying effects of brand advertising on e-commerce sites...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Beyond Supermoms
In Adage: CPG starts to advertise without the supermom stereotypes. With some examples from recent Superbowl ads. " ... Advertising's legacy of depicting women...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Measuring Stress Levels in an Unmanageable World
An insightful piece in the HBR. Which came up in a lunch conversation today. Many of us are managing multiple devices now. Will the number of devices creep...
From Schneier on Security
Alan F. Westin Died
Obituary here. His 1967 book, Privacy and Freedom, almost single-handedly created modern privacy law.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon vs WalMart Sales
In Wired: Intriguing comparison between Walmart and Amazon. An indicator for the future? Pointing to new Walmart activities: " ... Walmart recently reported...
From My Biased Coin
Discussing STOC 2013 PC with Joan Feigenbaum
Joan Feigenbaum is the Program Committee Chair for STOC 2013, where papers decisions were recently announced; I served as part of the Executive Committee. Joan...
From Schneier on Security