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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 Teachers Association
Getting Rid of the T Word
Two years ago I wrote the following blog post. "Training" should be a four-letter word "We need to train more teachers." "Teachers need more training in order...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nanotech Revolution
Was pointed to this series of articles by Gwyneth K Shaw on nanotechnology news and tech. Largely non technical and readable. That led me to a series of articles...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digitization of Manufacturing
In the Economist: Is this the third industrial revolution? They do a good job of providing an overview of technologies that are prompting this, but not necessarily...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Perplexing Problems in Educational Games
When it comes to presenting math problems in an engaging way, Dan Meyer knows his stuff. From putting pseudocontext in its place to telling a math story with his...
From My Biased Coin
Living with New Interfaces
After weeks of asking Google mail to revert to the old look, I find I no longer have that option. Similarly, I'm being forced to write this post using the new...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Extracting Squid Ink
How to extract squid ink. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Science Across the Curriculum
Yesterday I had the pleasure of meeting with Seung Yu, the principal of the new Academy for Software Engineering, a new software/computer science focused school...
From Schneier on Security
Liars & Outliers Update
Liars & Outliers has been available for about two months, and is selling well both in hardcover and e-book formats. More importantly, I'm very pleased with the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kimberly-Clark on Mobile and Social
An interview with Kimberly Clark on the future of mobile and social: " ... Jeff Jarrett, vice president for global digital marketing at Kimberly-Clark, said the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Segmentation plus Merchandising
Merchandising has been around for a long time. We did lots of experimentation trying to understand the specific behavior of consumers in laboratory, virtual and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Face Matching in Forensics
Image analysis continues to be a strong interest. Similarity and tagging of images continues to move ahead, but is not yet completely solved. Face matchinga...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fighting for the Fifth Screen
It is a challenge. With tablets and phones, and now watches and even goggle-glasses, added to all the screens popping up everywhere, there is real motion toThis...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Computer scientists need to learn about significant digits
I probably spend too much time reviewing research papers. It makes me cranky. Nevertheless, one thing that has become absolutely clear to me is that computer scientists...
From Wild WebMink
Microsoft Does Open Source
I updated and expanded my speculation about why Microsoft started “Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.” – sadly without any help from them as all their many evangelists...
From Wild WebMink
? All About RAND
What does “RAND” really mean for open source? It’s the key issue in the current UK government standards consultation (which I really ask you to complete). I’ve...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CISE Researchers Discuss
The following is a special contribution to this blog from
From Schneier on Security
TSA Behavioral Detection Statistics
Interesting data from the U.S. Government Accounting Office: But congressional auditors have questions about other efficiencies as well, like having 3,000 "behavior...
From Schneier on Security