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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 U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of February 13
February 16 Hearing: The Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee will hold a hearing on the Cybersecurity and Internet Freedom Act of 2012. 2:30...
From Computational Complexity
Barney the Evil Dinosaur
This is an old story from before I had a blog, but one of my favorite on when technology goes bad. In the late 90's, the undergraduate CS coordinator at the time...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
This Thursday, a Symposium on the Impact of NITRD
Since the dawn of the digital age, fundamental research sponsored by the Federal
From Schneier on Security
What Happens When the Court Demands You Decrypt a Document and You Forget the Key?
Last month, a U.S. court demanded that a defendent surrender the encryption key to a laptop so the police could examine it. Now it seems that she's forgotten the...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 13 February 2012
Home again after a week in Texas! Had a great time in Texas both at the TCEA conference and the steering committee meeting for the CS 2013 project. All in all I...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Message Mapping
Over the years I have been investigating all sorts of mapping methods. Concept, process and Mind maps are common approaches that I have used in my work for years...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Big Data Thoughts
In the NYT Sunday Review: On the impact of big data. Personally I think it is how business analytical methods can be effectivey used against the right amount...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Teaching with Technology
In the Chronicle of Education: A teacher rethinks teaching with technology. Like the solution to any difficult problem, it is never all just about technology...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Adaptive Marketing
Adaptive Marketing was a new term to be. Apparently devised by Mindshare to describe consumer focused and data based marketing. It is good to be as adaptive as...
From The Noisy Channel
Enjoying Seattle
My excursion to Seattle was delightful, and I thought I’d share some details with readers. I spent most of Friday at the University of Washington, meeting with...
From Writing
Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: Prolog, Day 2
Today is the second day of Prolog in the Seven Languages in Seven Weeks series of blog posts. You can find the first day of Prolog here.Prolog, Day 2: ThoughtsToday...
From The Eponymous Pickle
When are Tweets Worthy of Your Time?
I started using Twitter about four years ago, dubbing it an 'experiment'. I continue to use Twitter, in part because some clients and colleagues use it, and in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Econophysicists and the Swans
Ultrafast Trades Trigger Black Swan Events Every Day, Say Econophysicists The US financial markets have suffered over 18,000 extreme price changes caused by ultrafast...
From The Eponymous Pickle
E-Books Changing the Book Industry
It is obvious that it is, but how? In E-Commerce Times. An author speaks: " ... Just as the iPod changed the music industry a decade ago, e-books are changing...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
DARPA Issues PERFECT Solicitation
Just a week after announcing
From Wild WebMink
? Sarah Jarosz
This performance by 20-year-old Sarah Jarosz is completely magical. She’s supported by Alison Krauss and Jerry Douglas but there’s no missing her star quality....
From Apophenia
New Pew study on tone of social network sites
Pew Internet & American Life Project just released a new study called “The tone of life on social networking sites” where they examine adult meanness and cruelty...
From Schneier on Security