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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 Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 11 February 2013
Last week was a great one for me. It ended with a massive snowstorm that hit New Hampshire Friday though Saturday. I love snow and we haven’t had as much as I would...
From Apophenia
Networked Norms: How Tech Startups and Teen Practices Challenge Organizational Boundaries
At the ASTD TechKnowledge conference, I was asked to reflect on networked learning and how tomorrow’s workers will challenge today’s organizations. I did some reflecting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Recipes and Components
Online grocery start up HelloFresh raises 'millions' in funding from Rocket, Kinnevik and others. More details. As an amateur cook I like the idea of task lists...
From Putting People First
Interview with Michael Griffiths, Director of Ethnographic Research, Ogilvy & Mather China
Michael B Griffiths is Director of Ethnography at Ogilvy & Mather, Greater China, Associate Research Fellow, White Rose East Asia Centre, and External Research...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Industrial design
Here’s a “must read” article for you HCI types: a New York Times obituary for John E. Karlin, a Bell Labs industrial psychologist who is responsible for 7-digit...
From Putting People First
UK Report: Notions of identity will be transformed in the next decade
Hyper-connectivity – where people are constantly connected to social networks and streams of information – will have a transforming effect on how we see ourselves...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Delete All EMails Simplifies Communications
In ComputerWorld: In a review of the new Blackberry phone the idea of a 'delete all' email button is mentioned. I remember that capability when I used a Backberry...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Recipe
Chorizo-stuffed squid with potatoes, capers and sage. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't...
From Schneier on Security
I Seem to Be a Physical Security Expert Now
This seems so obviously written by someone who Googled me on the Internet, without any other knowledge of who I am or what i do.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Sponsored Workshop for Multidisciplinary Research for Online Education (MROE)
The following is a special contribution to this blog from Douglas H. Fisher, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Computer Engineering at Vanderbilt University...
From Schneier on Security
Millennials and Cybersecurity
This long report looks at risky online behavior among the Millennial generation, and finds that they respond positively to automatic reminders and prodding. No...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Promoting Computer Science
Computer Science is an elective class in my high school district and in many other districts. The simple truth is that elective teachers must promote their courses...
From Schneier on Security
Inauguration Security
A first-person account of the security surrounding the second inauguration of President Obama.
From Wild WebMink
US Hearing To Test Lemley Patents Proposal
A rare en banc hearing of the US federal circuit court today will re-hear the arguments over a fiercely-fought software patent case, CLS Bank vs Alice Corp (the...
From Wild WebMink
TDF Keeps Up The Pressure
The release of LibreOffice 4.0 continues the regular drumbeat of feature releases (coupled with maintaining a known-stable earlier version) that’s a signature strategy...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Improvisational Teaching
Yesterday I had a situation where several students were playing catch up after absences and the rest of the class had finished a programming exercise sooner than...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Taleb on Accepting Uncertainty and Volatility
Nassim Nicholas Taleb reviewing his new book on Accepting Uncertainty, Embracing Volatility in Knowledge@Wharton. Over the years I have talked to many vendors...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data Startup to Solve Healthcare
Vincent Granville looks at a way to have big data fix healthcare. Even if Data Science does not solve the whole problem, the exercise might be valuable. An interesting...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Polynomials Behaving Badly
Composite Moduli Ahead—Danger Ken Jeong is a doctor of internal medicine, and a stand-up comic, and a TV and movie actor. His full name is Kendrick Kang-Joh Jeong...
From The Eponymous Pickle