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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 Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Seven Rules for Beginning Programmers
Paul Vick posted these Seven Rules for Beginning Programmers earlier this week and I have been thinking about them a lot. They make sense to me. As a professional...
From Putting People First
Africa is becoming a test lab for mobile phone development
Lessons in innovation that Vodafone learns from its work in sub-Saharan Africa will be applied to its projects around the world. For Vodafone, sub-Saharan Africa...
From Putting People First
Power Lines
Power Lines, the latest paper by the UK’s Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA), follows on from the RSA
From Putting People First
Compendium for the Civic Economy
The Compendium for the Civic Economy is the latest publication by NESTA, the UK’s National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (an independent body with...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The perils of filter-then-publish
Why do I prefer the publish-then-filter system, which dominates social media such as blogs, to the traditional filter-then-publish system used by scientific journals...
From My Biased Coin
Serving Non-Majors in CS Classes
At the end of the year, I gave a short in-house presentation highlighting some aspects of the state of CS at Harvard. In gathering data, one thing that struckDavid...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Free Shipping
Many more orders online are now including 'free shipping'. Of course this is driven by the magic econometric term 'free', which takes something that used to be...
From The Eponymous Pickle
First Commercial Quantum Computer
A claim for the first commercial quantum computer. From D-Wave. I spoke to this Canadian company some time ago suggesting applications, such as in supply chain...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Call for Visionary Papers to MIX-HS
The Computing Community Consortium is announcing today a Challenges and Visions Track at the First International Workshop on Managing Interoperability and compleXity...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Did You Know?
I've viewed several versions of "Did You Know" videos in the past few years and the newer, somewhat different takes on this video never bore me. They all stress...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intel Shifts to Mobile
A very good sign for mobile devices:CEO Paul Otellini said today that Intel is embarking on a big shift in focus, moving its center of gravity to the most power...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Programming Concepts in Scratch
On Monday I started my lessons on Scratch for my Introduction to Computers for Arts and Social Sciences class. My goal is for students to understand boolean values...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Khan Academy
I was reminded recently of the The Kahn Academy, which is an excellent example what can be done with good enough technology and the perseverance to teach knowledge...
From Schneier on Security
Bin Laden Maintained Computer Security with an Air Gap
From the Associated Ptress: Bin Laden's system was built on discipline and trust. But it also left behind an extensive archive of email exchanges for the U.S....
From Putting People First
The grand delusion: Why nothing is as it seems
This might come as a shock, but everything you think is wrong. Much of what you take for granted about day-to-day existence is largely a figment of your imagination...
From Putting People First
Mobiles for Women. Part 2: The Darker Side.
Targeting women with mobile phones and mobile-based projects can bring great benefits and opportunities, as MobileActive outlined in Part 1 of its series on women...
From Putting People First
Seven technologies to disrupt the next decade
What technologies will have the biggest impact on the next decade? New Scientist peers into the crystal ball and picks the ideas, concepts and gadgets that are...
From Putting People First