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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
NIH, NSF Announce Call for mHealth White Papers
The NSF, NIH, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and McKesson Foundation announced this week a call for white papers on innovative methods to accelerate the evaluation...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Is science more art or industry?
In my previous post, I argued that people who pursue double-blind peer review have an idealized “LEGO block” view of scientific research. Research papers are “pure”...
From Putting People First
Mobile trends in Africa: a collaborative outlook towards 2020
A few months back Rudy de Waele (m-trends) got in touch with Ken Banks (kiwanja | FrontlineSMS) and Eric Hersman (WhiteAfrican) about helping to curate a collaborative...
From Putting People First
Book: Simple And Usable
Simple And Usable: Web, Mobile and Interaction Design by Giles Colborne New Riders, Sep 2010 Paperback, 208 pages In a complex world, products that are easy to...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Academic Feedback Survey
If you are a computer science or information technology professor/instructor/teacher would you help us out as we make plans for how Microsoft can support you in...
From Apophenia
A Customer Service Nightmare: Resolving Trademark and Personal Reputation in a Limited Name Space
Yesterday, I threw a public hissy fit when I found out that Tumblr’s customer service had acted on a trademark request from a company called Zephoria who had written...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gamifying Mundane and Innovative Processes
Lauren Carlson contacted me a few days ago to point out some posts in her Software Advice blog. She originally posted a very good introductory note about the idea...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Equity
There has been an increased emphasis on equity issues in computer science education in recent years, supported largely by NSF programs aimed at broadening participation...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Policy Highlights from Communications of the ACM - February 2011 (Vol. 54, No. 2)
Below is a list of items with policy relevance from the February issue of Communications of the ACM. As always, much of the material in CACM is premium content,...
From Computational Complexity
How important is Teaching Experience on the job market (guest post)
( Annoucements: New York Theory day May 13 and UMCP Theory Postdoc opening. ) This is an anon guest blogger. Even we don't know who this is! He or she emailed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Flypaper
Just exploring Flypaper: " .... Software anyone can use to create professional quality multi-touch, interactive or motion graphics content in one-sixth the time...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Examples of Games that Teach CS Concepts and Programming
In my previous post I introduced the fact that there weren't very many educational games that specifically aim to teach computer science concepts. Here I'll share...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Payday Timing
Roger Dooley posts: Walmart CEO confirms Payday Timing Effect. Was thought to be common knowledge, but had never seen a specific 'proof' of the effect. Though...
From The Eponymous Pickle
EmPower Background
Recently I had a meeting with EmPower, custom market and media intelligence services company. Here is an overview of their background and services.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kevin Emmons EKR Blog
Newly discovered blog by Kevin Emmons that covers, among other things, neuromarketing. Most recently: Android Phones Using Neuromarketing, where he talks about...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Where Do Female Computer Scientists Come From
As someone who is mildly addicted to statistics and who has a degree in Sociology (really) I found this article in Fast Company very interesting on several levels...
From Wild WebMink
? Abuses
Barnes & Noble Charges Microsoft with Misusing Patents to Further an Anticompetitive Scheme Against Android Barnes and Noble’s strongly-worded response to Microsoft’s...
From Schneier on Security
The Cyberwar Arms Race
Good paper: "Loving the Cyber Bomb? The Dangers of Threat Inflation in Cybersecurity Policy," by Jerry Brito and Tate Watkins. Over the past two years there has...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The Case Against Double-blind Peer Review
Many scientific journals use double-blind peer review. That is, the authors submit their work in a way that cannot be traced back to them. Meanwhile, the authors...
From The Eponymous Pickle