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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
Examination of Computers in 1984
I remember thinking about the advances in computing that year, and how the forecast of dire changes did not occur. This article surveys computing, hardware and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Tablet is not a Book, Yet
In UX Magazine: A complaint that reading a book on a tablet is not the same as reading a physical book. I have thought that for some time, and in general only...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rewarding Responsible Innovation
Had never heard it expressed quite this this way. So what is responsible innovation? " ... We are talking about ethics, in that ethics is responsibility-taking...
From My Biased Coin
More from Simons Institute
Alistair Sinclair asked me to post the following. For #2; note that those with existing postdoc positions are eligible (the Simons people hope they'll be able to...
From Computational Complexity
Fifty Years of Computational Complexity
From Juris Hartmanis’ Observations About the Development of Theoretical Computer Science on the research leading to his seminal 1965 paper On the Computational...
From Putting People First
Finally a serious research study on tablet use in schools
Although there are many tablet deployments in schools worldwide, there is a glaring lack of serious research on what actually happens in the classrooms with these...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
“Whole Systems, Whole Students”
At last week’s meeting of the Council of the Computing Community Consortium – held at Microsoft Research in Redmond WA – UC Berkeley’s Eric Brewer gave an inspirational...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
I Can't Cook, But I Can Teach CS
Almost everyone I know can cook. And what I mean by cooking, is that they can make themselves some semblance of a balanced meal that tastes good. I, on the other...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Giving Customers the Mobility to Play
I have had the need to give mobility payment options to customers. As a result have needed to examine options that are available, and I now tried several, ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook as an Offline Retail Tool
In Adage: A replacement to the common circular? " ... studies have indicated that online posts can have a huge impact on consumer action away from the platform...
From Putting People First
A tablet still is not a book … not yet
Dan Turner discusses why the experience of reading a book on tablets (iPads in particular) is a chore rather than a delight. In a long article for UX Magazine,...
From Putting People First
More NEXT Service Design videos
Last week I posted links to a few videos from NEXT Service Design, the European conference for designing digital services, which took place on 8 October in Berlin...
From The Eponymous Pickle
High Performance Computing in the Cloud
Featured in CN Computing Now: " ... High performance computing is no longer limited to those who own supercomputers. HPC's democratization has been driven particularly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Printing Rocket Parts
Colleague Walter Riker points me to this SciAM article about the 3D printing of rocket parts. Another move forward.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neuromarketing Code of Ethics
An intriguing neuromarketing code of ethics. " ... Neuromarketing Science & Business Association (NMSBA) has launched today (9th November 2012) a Neuromarketing...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Ink as a Condiment
Burger King introduces a black burger with ketchup that includes squid ink. Only in Japan, of course.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The Myth of The All-nighter
All-nighters, those storied tales of spending all night in the computer lab or the library trying to meet a school deadline, came up in a Facebook conversationlaw...
From Schneier on Security
How To Tell if Your Hotel Guest Is a Terrorist
From the Department of Homeland Security, a handy list of 19 suspicious behaviors that could indicate that a hotel guest is actually a terrorist. I myself have...
From My Biased Coin
Posts from FOCS (Part 3)
Continuing posts from FOCS, with several guest-writers and guest-editor Justin Thaler.[Editor: This is Part 3 in our series of posts covering FOCS 2012. Part 4,...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science