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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
Interesting Links 2 May 2011
I had an interesting week last week. Took a couple of vacation days
From The Eponymous Pickle
Known Myths about the Origin of the Internet
An interesting piece on the background of the Internet. It states that there was a myth that the Internet originated because its many nodes could survive a nuclear...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neuaer and Smartphone Location
In ReadWriteWeb: New potential from Smartphone location sensor ideas: " ... Imagine if your phone could tell you when your friend walked by so you could call them...
From The Eponymous Pickle
BrandFlick: Finding a Company's Aha Stories
A local company that just appeared in the news, Brandflick. I have been involved with storytelling projects a number of times. Very useful for sketching outmentioned...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Rights
What kinds of rights should we have when dealing with systems that gather our data? Does this mean we should not accept agreements that do no make this clear?Thoughtful...
From The Noisy Channel
CFP: IEEE Internet Computing Special Issue on Context-Aware Computing
Pankaj Mehra and I are guest editors for an upcoming special issue of
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Making 'Introduction to Computers for Arts and Social Sciences' Even More Awesome
I'm getting ready to teach our introductory computer course for arts and social science majors again this summer. If you read my blog around this time last year...
From The Eponymous Pickle
PayPal Ties EWallets
The method uses text messages to transfer payments. The article goes on to provide a good overview of the current market, tests underway, and the belief by many...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Decline of Manufacturing
MJ Perry on a global trend of a decline in manufacturing. Though with population increasing don't we still need to have more things to be manufactured? Very...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Examining A Measure of Social Connectivity
In Roughtype: A look at a study that generates a measure called NFC, or 'need for cognition', which is ' ... "a recognized indicator for deep or shallow thinking...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CNBC.com
Yesterday, CNBC.com published a slideshow of 10 products and companies that have changed the world. Calling them “game-changing disruptions,” CNBC.com reported:...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Please Vote
The CSTA Board of Directors are elected for two year terms. And, as opposed to many corporate Boards of Directors, where the vote of the individual shareholder...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM and Yale Team Up to Teach Analytics
Business intelligence professionals are needed and companies and schools are seeking to provide the analytics training. Includes a video.
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Eye Preserved in a Jar
Great picture from the Smithsonian Institution.
From Schneier on Security
TED Talk
This is a surprise. My TED talk made it to the website. It's a surprise because I didn't speak at TED. I spoke last year at a regional TED event, TEDxPSU. And...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented Reality in the Workplace
In ReadwriteWeb: Some thoughts about the value of using AR in the workplace. I agree, there is more opportunity there, since at least currently, there tends to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visualize This
FlowingData previews the book: Visualize This. " ... The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics A book by Nathan Yau who writes for FlowingData...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How to Build Confidence
In the HBR Blog: How to Build Confidence. " ... Very few people succeed in business without a degree of confidence. Yet everyone, from young people in their first...
From The Eponymous Pickle