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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 Computing Community Consortium Blog
Want to Earn $50K?
A couple of very interesting prize-based competitions have been announced in the past week. The first — with Vint Cerf, U.S. Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Kinect SDK
Finally! The officially supported Kinect Software Developer Kit for the Kinect Device for Windows is now available. Kinect SDK download. To help you get started...
From Wild WebMink
The FT and the App Trap
I got an e-mail from the Financial Times yesterday, announcing their new “FT App”. That sounded unusual; after all, the FT has had an iPad/iPhone app for some time...
From Computational Complexity
Theory Jobs 2011
The computer science job market never comes to a complete close. CI Fellows are still being decided, Oxford is just starting its search for an algorithms professor...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Collaboration as an Intangible Asset
In the Harvard Bogs: Not so intangible, I say. Today though it can be done in ways that were not possible formerly. In a conversation I had yesterday we discussed...
From Putting People First
SEE Conference report by Mark Vanderbeeken
On 29 March, Experientia partner Mark Vanderbeeken chaired the European SEE Conference on integrating design into regional and national policies. The high-level...
From Putting People First
Book: What
What’s Mine Is Yours: How Collaborative Consumption is Changing the Way We Live by Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers Collins, 2011 304 pages In the 20th century humanity...
From Putting People First
Shareable: Share or Die [new e-book]
Share or Die is the first collection of writing from Generation Y about post-college work and life in the 21st Century. “It contains nearly 30 essays, cartoons,...
From Putting People First
Open Source Architecture (OSArc)
Domus Magazine has published an op-ed advocating a different approach to designing space – to succeed the single-author model – that includes tools from disparate...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart and Social Commerce
Interesting piece on the direction that Wal-Mart is taking after their recent social networking acquisition. I agree with the author that this is very important...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pads are Selling Fast
Tablets are the fastest selling consumer tech devices in history: From the Official Google CPG Blog.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Robots and Android Apps and PR
This year, after the AP Computer Science exam, I gave my students a choice: robots or Android Apps. In April, my order of Scribbler 2 robots came in. I've used...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Turning Work into Play
A Mashable infographic. An illustration of game mechanics at work. Where exactly will it work?
From Schneier on Security
WEIS 2011
I'm at the Tenth Workshop on Economics of Information Security (WEIS 2011) , at George Mason University. Most of the papers are online, and Ross Anderson is liveblogging...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science