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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
What Computer Science Can Teach Us About Robotics
In a recent New York Times’ article, the newspaper’s technology writer John Markoff describes how advances in robotics have created new opportunities for automation...
From Schneier on Security
Fear and How it Scales
Nice post: The screaming fear in your stomach before you give a speech to 12 kids in the fifth grade is precisely the same fear a presidential candidate feels...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing 2012
One of the ways that one can help young women with an interest in computing and related fields is to provide recognition for the world they have already beenNCWIT...
From The Noisy Channel
Data Werewolves
Thank you Scott Adams for the free advertising. Of course, LinkedIn is the place to find data werewolves. Want to find more data werewolves. Check out my team...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deals via Facial Recogition
In CWorld: A piece on Facedeals. " ... The system, dubbed Facedeals, uses cameras placed at the doors of participating stores and facial recognition software....
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Do We Need Mysticism In Theory?
Are we too “normal” in our approach to open problems? Boris Spassky is the oldest living world chess champion. He held the title 1969 to 1972, until famously losing...
From Wild WebMink
Why The Communications Data Bill Should Concern You
I wrote today on ComputerWorldUK about the draft Communications Data Bill. As I explained at OggCamp last weekend in Liverpool, it is yet another attempt by the...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
CS is Featured in the Kahn Academy
Normally when preparing to write a post for the Advocate Blog, I collect my thoughts for several days prior to starting to write. I had collected some great ideas...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Quantity Is Not Enough
There is often a focus on quantity in our society. Let’s get more apps! Lets get more students taking the AP course! Lets get more [you name it]? UnfortunatelyHow...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IEEE Computing Now Expands
I am informed:New, expanded, IEEE Computer Society Computing Now website will be live on Friday, August 24, 2012The newly designed, Computing Now website (computingnow...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
At the Intersection of Big Data and Healthcare: What 7.2 Million Medical Records Can Tell Us
We’ve featured lots of stories about Big Data over the last several months, but here’s a fascinating new one that illustrates the value of Big Data analytics in...
From Schneier on Security
Exaggerating Cybercrime
Finally, someone takes a look at the $1 trillion number government officials are quoting as the cost of cybercrime. While it's a good figure to scare people, it...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wizard Games
Wizard Studies presents How to gamify meetings and events. A paper on the process. A meeting professional's guide to gamification. How to influence behaviors...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neuromarketing World Forum
Found late. Quite a wealth of information from the Neuromarketing World Forum including people I have worked with: Stephen Sands and Gemma Calvert. A number...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
“Algorithmic Rapture”: Music Composed by a Computer
Also in this week’s Nature, a fascinating review of an album of evolved music, composed by the Darwinian computer program Iamus, that is “at the very least musically...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stop Negotiating
Some intriguing thoughts. Often impractical though. Knowing you want to negotiate sets the stage.
From Schneier on Security
Video Filter that Detects a Pulse
Fascinating. How long before someone claims he can use this technology to detect nervous people in airports?
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Ten Years of Blog Complexity
We mean: Happy 10-Year Anniversary of the Complexity Blog src Lance Fortnow is famous for many things, but one is his blog Computational Complexity, which he created...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Metrics for Social
Some useful thoughts on new metrics for social. In particular how these measures treat alternative environments. " ... As consumers behave differently when using...
From The Eponymous Pickle