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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 Schneier on Security
Liars and Outliers on Special Discount
Liars and Outliers has been out since late February, and while it's selling great, I'd like it to sell better. So I have a special offer for my regular readers...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Try Kinect at your K-12 School
Capturing students' interest...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Khan Academy Computer Science
The much talked about Kahn Academy now has a Computer Science Curriculum. With code examples: " ... All of the code in the Khan Academy Computer Science platform...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Alan Turing Deserves More Attention From the General Public
Alan Turing was an incredibly important mind from the the twentieth century. Most computer scientists would recognize his name, but I think more of the general...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Digital Games
Lots of statistics from the Google blog about searches and other artifacts and commercial interest indications that have to do with the Olympics. Creative stats...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
The Speed of Communication
Fifty years of acceleration src Kurt Gödel has been keeping a low profile recently. It’s not in his nature to distract from all of the celebrations of Alan Turing...
From Putting People First
Care at a Distance : On the Closeness of Technology
Care at a Distance : On the Closeness of Technology By Jeannette Pols Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam 2012, 204 pages This widely researched study demonstrates...
From Putting People First
Touch in cars is still too complicated
It is not a secret that touch is not as easy as it seems and very difficult to get right, writes Wolfgang Gruener on Conceivable Tech. Cadillac is the first company...
From Schneier on Security
Schneier in the News
Here are links to three news articles about me, and two video interviews with me.
From Computational Complexity
Book Review Column (a bit late)
I try to post my book review column when it comes out but I am behind on that. This is the one that came out a few months ago. The column is here though I have...
From My Biased Coin
Mail Issue
Last week I had an issue where I sent an e-mail to someone (non-work-related), and a while later got the response forwarded to me from my wife, with a note that...
From Schneier on Security
Measuring Cooperation and Defection using Shipwreck Data
In Liars and Outliers, I talk a lot about social norms and when people follow them. This research uses survival data from shipwrecks to measure it. The authors...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Everything is Still Measurable
A recent conversation that dealt with how to establish the measurable aspects of a difficult process improvement problem led me to think once again about the book...
From The Eponymous Pickle
An Introduction to Bayesian Networks
I may have included this in a previous post, but it is worth repeating. A good basic introduction to Bayesian Network methods from Conrady Science, which integrates...
From The Eponymous Pickle
CRM Data is Incorrect or Out of Date
Frost & Sullivan and IBM write about the problems with CRM data. The article contains many statistics about the problem and how integrating solutions that making...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Recursion First
I’ve long had mixed feelings about recursion. (I’ve written about recursion several times in this blog.) In one post, Recursion Early, Recursion Late, I wrote about...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Using Technology to Drive Loyalty
It has now been many years since the first use of loyalty data processes. Technology continues to help leverage these ideas by leveraging the economic exchanges...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
“Dining With Robots in Silicon Valley”
From The New York Times‘ Bits Blog yesterday: Millions of people watched a robot descend last week on Mars, about 154 million miles away, while it shared video,...
From Schneier on Security
Cryptocat
I'm late writing about this one. Cryptocat is a web-based encrypted chat application. After Wired published a pretty fluffy profile on the program and its author...
From Wild WebMink