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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 Wild WebMink
? Hollow Point
Each time I am told I should unreservedly respect decisions made by authorities in secret, I remember this song by Chris Wood. I always cry. Folk music is still...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CISE, MPS Seeking to Advance Quantum Information Science
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From Computational Complexity
Turing's Titanic Machine!
In the March CACM, Barry Cooper writes We quote Peter J. Denning introducing the ACM Ubiquity Symposium on "What is Computation?" as saying: "Researchers in biology...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
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Interesting new student competition from Time Warner Cable (TWC). As part of Connect a Million Minds (CAMM), the company’s five-year, $100 million commitment to...
From Schneier on Security
GPS Spoofers
Great movie-plot threat: Financial institutions depend on timing that is accurate to the microsecond on a global scale so that stock exchanges in, say, London...
From Wild WebMink
A Bright Future For LibreOffice
Following on from my blog post at ComputerWorldUK, InfoWorld in the US asked me if I would write a column for them about LibreOffice. I gathered together the rather...
From Putting People First
The landscape of UX design in Asia
Daniel Szuc and Josephine Wong describe the current state of UX design in Asia: “As businesses in Asia in various domains look to how they can mature, differentiate...
From Putting People First
Connected Learning
Together with a committed group of colleagues and partners, cultural anthropologist Mimi Ito has been engaged in the MacArthur Foundation
From Putting People First
Book: Wicked Problems
Austin Center for Design today published a new book focused on the role of design in social entrepreneurship. Titled Wicked Problems: Problems Worth Solving, the...
From The Noisy Channel
Strata 2012: Big Data is Bigger than Ever!
I spent the last three days at the O’Reilly Strata Conference, an assembly of two thousand people focused on data science and its applications. While I’m wary of...
From Apophenia
Born This Way Foundation: guided by research
Yesterday, Cynthia Germanotta and her daughter Lady Gaga launched their new initiative to empower youth: the Born This Way Foundation. The Foundation wants to create...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile Apps and Mobile Strategies
Brought to my attention: Building a Mobile App Is Not a Mobile Strategy In the HBR. With some thoughtful comments as well.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Changing Cognition in Kids
Interesting piece in the Atlantic. Regarding a Pew report: " ... The survey found, overall, what many others already have: that neuroplasticity is, indeed, a...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Studying Cyber attacks
In CACM: A Comparative study of cyber attacks. Technical and quantitative view that I have not seen before.
From Schneier on Security
State Department Redacts Wikileaks Cables
The ACLU filed a FOIA request for a bunch of cables that Wikileaks had already released complete versions of. This is what happened: The agency released redacted...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fragrance Interaction at Burt's Bees
Always interested in alternative sensory interaction and engagement. Here in AdAge's blog, a note about the fragrance Gud, From Burt's Bees (A Unit of Clorox)...
From Wild WebMink
? Why I Want My Pi
The Raspberry Pi reminds me of my youth – it’s a gadget like that which got me interested in technology in the first place. I hope the Pi will tempt today’s generation...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Barbara Liskov Named to Inventors Hall of Fame
Turing Award-winner
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Social Networks and Mobility in the Cloud
The following is a special contribution to this Blog by Amr El Abbadi, Professor of Computer Science at the University of California at Santa Barbara, Christos...
From Schneier on Security