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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 Teachers Association
What Do You Need to Know About Computational Thinking?
The theme of the May CSTA Voice is "Computational Thinking." As I thought about what to include in this upcoming issue and reviewed some of the past CT work by...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Considering Wal-Mart Bias
The bizarre bias against Wal-Mart in the NYC area. I understand the arguments, but they are essentially against efficiency.
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-02-13
Document Freedom Day 2011 Don't for a second underestimate the importance of document formats – the way your files are stored by the program you use – in locking...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
White House White Board: Austan Goolsbee on the National Wireless Initiative
You gotta love having geeks in the White House!
From The Eponymous Pickle
Country Favorability Ratings
Gallup has published a favorability rating of countries to people in the US. Both the methods used and the graphics are interesting. Trends of the rating over...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Word Cloud for this Blog
I created a wordcloud using Wordle, using the RSS feed for this blog. Scanning this, it is clear that it is using only a small subset of recent words in the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Word Clouds
A favorite topic of mine, pictures that represent compact, useful and easily scannable visualizations of real data. Here Doug Lautzenheiserdiscusses the Wordle...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Modernist Cuisine
Not sure how long this link will work, but a foodie friend sends me the article from the WSJ: The Game-Changing Cookbook: Nathan Myhrvold's 2,400-page 'Modernist...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Postdocs in Computing
The CRA website has an interesting white paper on the role of postdocs in computer science.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retail is Ready for Mobile
Good piece with statistics in E-Commerce Times. Useful statistics. If you give the shopper the right kind of choices and offers , at the right time and place,...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-02-12
Double Bug: Oracle Kept OpenJDK In The Dark Great explanation from Mark Wielaard of how the effectiveness of the OpenJDK community in dealing with the Double security...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Pheromone
A newly discovered female squid pheromone sparks aggression in male squids. Article.
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
DC ACM Chapter Co-Hosts Discussion on Digital Government
On February 17th, the D.C. Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery an the New America Foundation will co-host a panel discussion, "The Open Government...
From Schneier on Security
Julian Sanchez on Balancing Privacy and Security
From a blog post: In my own area of study, the familiar trope of "balancing privacy and security" is a source of constant frustration to privacy advocates, because...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rhymes for Our Times
I see that former P&G colleague and renowned advertising exec Norm Levy has set up a blog: Rhymes4ourtimes in conjunction with his book: Rhymes for Or Times: Skews...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Market Research Scanning App
An interesting and natural development. An App by Kinesis Survey Technologies that does both barcode scanning and supports market research functions. Includes...
From Wild WebMink
? Is LibreOffice Open-By-Rule?
Charles-H Schulz from The Document Foundation submitted the data for a benchmark evaluation of LibreOffice. I have read his evaluations and added scores, giving...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog