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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 Computational Complexity
I am conducing a NEW POLL on P vs NP
In 2002 I did a poll that appeared as SIGACT News Complexity Theory Column 36 on what people thought of P vs NP. See here. That article is now linked to on...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Beyond the Bounce Rate
A post in the blog at Catalyst Online. Brought to my attention this week. Honestly I have not heard the measure of the 'bounce rate' used very often in the enterprise...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Using Technology to Reinvent Math Education
What subject do high school students dislike the most? My bet is math — it’s confusing, abstract, and requires meticulous attention to detail. But at it’s heart...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Meaningful Play
A good Google talk on meaningful play. Sebstian Deterding - Serious Play: Getting Gamification Right. And Prof. Jesse Schell's talk at DICEon the future of...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of June 20
Cybersecurity appears to be the word for committees this week. June 21 Hearing: The Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee will hold a hearing on cybersecurity...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predictive Analytical Medical tests
Algorithms for real time data analysis for predictive diagnosis. Again this was an early application of artificial intelligence. As suggested this requires that...
From Putting People First
Individual and networked privacy
Danah Boyd, researcher at Microsoft Research New England and Fellow at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society, posted the crib of her recent Personal...
From Putting People First
Book: ethnography and the corporate encounter
Ethnography and The Corporate Encounter Reflections on Research in and of Corporations Edited by Melissa Cefkin Berghahn Books 2010, 262 pages Businesses and other...
From Schneier on Security
RAND Corporation on Trusted Traveler
New paper: "Assessing the Security Benefits of a Trusted Traveler Program in the Presence of Attempted Attacker Exploitation and Compromise": Current aviation...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 20 June 2011
This time next week I will be in Philadelphia for ISTE. I
From The Eponymous Pickle
Surviving Technological Sea Changes
MJ Perry on the survival of IBM during a hundred years of technological changes.
From My Biased Coin
New Books Worth Looking At
New books are coming out all the time, but here are two big ones that stick out in my mind (perhaps because I've seen the authors recently). [Feel free to mention...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Priorities
Recently I was asked by a younger teacher, how I allocate my time because he knew that I teach both computer science and mathematics. I never thought much about...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Controlling Swarms of Tiny Robots
From IEEE Spctrum: We proposed a variant of this idea years ago. Unleash a hoard of tiny robotic 'turtles' in a confined space like a warehouse to take inventory...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Web Illiteracy
This ReadWriteWeb piece struck home. Lately I have been in a number of conversations where I discovered that less is known about operational aspects of the Internet...
From The Eponymous Pickle
About Faces
Revisiting About Face: The Secrets of Emotionally Effective Advertising, by Dan Hill. What is more primal than a face? A good portion of our brains are devoted...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Impact Games
From a colleague: ... A company called ImpactGames www.impactgames.com and it
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Future of Quantum Computing
A good description and view of the future of quantum computing, by IBM and others. In Computerworld: " ... Quantum computers could provide a big boost to technologies...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Why Chrome?
I wondered about this question. It just seems much less versatile than other browsers. It is fast. Is it in the Chromification of the operating system?
From The Eponymous Pickle