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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 Eponymous Pickle
Who is on Your Network?
From ComputerWorld. A clever little free mobile App for Apple or Android or desktop called Fing that scans your local network and tells you what is on it. Simple...
From The Eponymous Pickle
BiggerPlate Mapping Groups
I have long been a proponent of concept, mind and process maps as a means of capturing and delivering many kinds of knowledge. BiggerPlate is a sharing repository...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Direct Social Selling
In Supermarket News: " ... The Economist Intelligence Unit found that more consumer-goods companies are using social media to sell directly to customers, and the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Knowledge Graph
I order to be more precise search must embed semantic reasoning. In Mashable, an interview about the challenge and the use of semantic knowledge networks. ...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Help Design a Book for Computer Science Beginners
Bringing computer science to the masses is my passion, through education and outreach. I've run mini-courses for girls, designed a video game, lead workshops for...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
DARPA Director:
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Director Regina Dugan recently sat on an panel sponsored by
From The Eponymous Pickle
Formalizing the Water Cooler
Good thoughts about why and how to gather corporate knowledge from obvious, but rarely captured sources, like informal conversations. Points to less formal places...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How Young Can/Should You Start Teaching Programming?
Or perhaps how young should you try? And to top if off, why do you want to start them so young in the first place? I received the following from a teacher friend...
From Schneier on Security
"Cyberwar Is the New Yellowcake"
Good essay on the dangers of cyberwar rhetoric -- and the cyberwar arms race.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Risk Analysis App
Boris Agranovich of the Global Risk Community has posted an early look at a new free App that: " ... will offer simple way for decision-makers to identify the potential...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Guest Post on Cybersecurity Legislation from Chris Bronk
What follows is a guest post from Chris Bronk, Information Technology Policy Fellow at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. He’s a new member of...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Mobile Devices in the Classroom
This fall I took an online class to learn about ways to use cellphones in the classroom. There has been much in the media recently about ways to utilize this ubiquitous...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cognitive Computing Page
A reconnect with some IBM researchers led me to revisit their cognitive computing presence:" ... Researchers at IBM have been working on a cognitive computing...
From Wild WebMink
? Is Windows to blame for viruses?
A historical post, for a change. A comment on a mailing list tonight – that something was “rather like blaming Windows for getting viruses” –
From The Eponymous Pickle
BBC Future
BBC Future a nicely designed site that features future tech. See also their Neuroscience topic sub section.
From Computational Complexity
Nash and the NSA
By now most of you have heard about Nash's recently released letters to the NSA (press release, letters). Not only did John Nash think about computation and cryptography...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gamification for the Small and Medium Size Business
Some simple thoughts about why to use gamification for the small and medium sized business. More of a why than an exactly how, but a quick and useful read.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
One week left to enter the Kinect Fun Labs Challenge!
I know that here and there you might have some really great Kinect game or app ideas at your schools. If they haven
From Schneier on Security