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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 Geeking with Greg
Code Monster and teaching programming to kids
I recently launched Code Monster from Crunchzilla. It helps parents teach a little programming to their kids. A lot of parents want their kids to learn a little...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Artificial Intelligence for Developing Technology for Older Adults – AI for Gerontechnology Symposium
The following is a contribution to this blog from Parisa Rashidi, Assistant Professor in the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. In this blog...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Full Scale Virtual Research Continued
I made another working visit to John Milby's Full Scale Virtual Research laboratory today and remain very impressed by their abilities and direction. He has taken...
From Putting People First
How cultural differences affect mobile use
CNN reports on mobile phone culture and how use differs starkly across cultures. Whereas the article is rather superficial, the “open mic” videos from New York...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
My Processing Workshop Materials
Last weekend I taught a one-day workshop called 'Create Interactive Art and More! Learn to Program with Processing.' I developed the materials from scratch for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Funding of Innovation
In Technology Review: On the funding of innovation. The thoughts of Nathan Myhrvold.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Find The Bug
The big problem I have with using professional quality sample code in class is that it is too professional. By that what I mean is that it is too complete and often...
From Apophenia
Free Speech, Context, and Visibility: Protesting Racist Ads
On Tuesday, Egyptian-American activist Mona Eltahawy was arrested for “criminal mischief” – or “the willful damaging of property” – when she responded to disturbingly...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Microsoft Groundbreaking Speech and Report on CS Education
Today Microsoft's General Counsel Brad Smith spoke at the Brookings Institution at an event on education and immigration reform and the presentation (and the report...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Vanishing Electronics
Research into disappearing electronics. Electronic 'pills' that dissolve inside the body after their function is done.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics in Action Talk
Analytics In Action: What do Jeopardy, Pampers and Major League Baseball have in Common?A number of my former colleagues will be presenting. October 24, 2012Full...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smartphones Provide Economic Data
An economist looks at how smartphones are a gold mine of economic data. " ... An economist taps into payment apps for their every financial transaction ... "
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
GNS Healthcare and Aetna Collaborate to Make Use of Big Data
GNS Healthcare, a healthcare analytics company and Aetna, an American managed health care organization, are collaborating to make use of GNS’ supercomputer “REFS”...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shopper Tracking
One of the first technologies we experimented with in the enterprise retail laboratory was ShopperTrak. To understand how we could use analytics generated by...
From Schneier on Security
Replacing Alice and Bob
A proposal to replace cryptography's Alice and Bob with Sita and Rama: Any book on cryptography invariably involves the characters Alice and Bob. It is always...
From Computational Complexity
Things a Complexity Theorist Should Do At Least Once
A few weeks ago, Suresh wrote a post Things a TCSer should have done at least once with the caveat This list is necessarily algorithms-biased. I doubt you'll need...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cisco Location Analytics
In another move, Cisco is acquiring mobility analytics and Wifi network location player Thinksmart Technologies of Dublin. The company tracks the location of people...
From Wild WebMink
MySQL FUD Claim Needs Action, Not Words
A chance encounter at the OFE Summit in Brussels, coupled with a provocative statement by an Oracle VP, lead me to believe it’s time for Oracle to come out of...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson