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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
ACM/IEEE-CS Computer Science Curricula 2013 - Ironman v0.8 Draft Available for Comments
Dear Colleagues, We are happy to announce the availability of the ACM/IEEE-CS Computer Science Curricula 2013 - Ironman v0.8 draft. The draft is available at...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile Marketing Toothpaste
Good overview of the use of mobile marketing for something as common as toothpaste. " ... Marketing toothpaste can be a challenge for brands because even though...
From Schneier on Security
Cell Phone Surveillance
Good article on the different ways the police can eavesdrop on cell phone calls.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Seize the Professional Development!
The Philadelphia Area chapter started providing professional development workshops to our members because they asked for it. We regularly query our membership as...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Developing New Ways to Search for Web Images
Collections of photos, images, and videos are quickly coming to dominate the content available on the Web. But how can text be used to search visual mediums? Currently...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Things I Like About Python
Back in May I wrote a popular post about which was a better beginners language: Processing or Python. Although I concluded that Processing was better for the audiences...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Midsize Insiders
Some of my blog posts will start to appear in Midsize Insiders. Quite an interesting group of other bloggers as I have read them so far: " ... Insiders are independent...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Need for Thank You
In the HBR: In a long career, before search became common, and I had become a rumored expert, I was often asked to do a simple online search. Later their admins...
From Schneier on Security
Decrypting a Secret Society's Documents from the 1740s
Great story, both the cryptanalysis process and the Oculists.
From My Biased Coin
Posts from FOCS (part 5)
[Again, edited by Justin Thaler, who organized all this. The following was written by Michael Forbes of MIT.]Title: Higher Cell Probe Lower Bounds for Evaluating...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented Reality Tricks for Dieting
What if we used augmented reality to scale what we eat to its caloric content? A simple idea, that might work in an era of Google Glasses type Augmented Reality...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook and Jobs
Wharton looks at Facebook's social jobs App. A competitor to Linkedin's focus? " ... the company’s “Social Jobs” app will allow users to search approximately...
From Computational Complexity
Recursion Theorem follows from Church-Turing
During a homework assignment in a graduate complexity course I took at Cornell back in 1985 I used the following reasoning: Since a computer code sits in RAM that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retail Space Usage
In Progressive Grocer. A recent exploration of a Fresh Market made me take a closer look at allocation of space and the implications of the approaches being used...
From The Noisy Channel
Follow Me on LinkedIn!
I’ve recently started posting on LinkedIn as part of LinkedIn’s thought leadership program. My first two posts as an “influencer” are a bit meta: Influence and...
From Schneier on Security
Anonymous Claims it Sabotaged Rove Election Hacking
Can anyone make heads or tails of this story? (More links.) For my part, I'd like a little -- you know -- evidence. Remember that Ohio was not the deciding state...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Navigating the Big Data Challenge
From Brain: Good overview of the challenge involved. Starting with a concise statement of the problem: " ... Today's decision makers have no trouble finding It...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What Programmers Say When Their Programs Don’t Work
Someone posted this to Facebook the other day. I have to admit that I have said several of these and heard most of them. I suspect a lot of these are also said...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Pain of the Interface
In Technology Review: All UIs are a pain to use. Especially the new ones. I read this as I am about to select a new one.
From My Biased Coin