Communications of the ACM
Refine your search:
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 Schneier on Security
Parental Fears vs. Realities
From NPR: Based on surveys Barnes collected, the top five worries of parents are, in order: Kidnapping School snipers Terroristsknows,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Will the Smartphone be the Computer?
In Gigaohm: A question I have been asking myself for a few years. Will the computer of the future be the little device we carry around today? True, the keyboards...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Visualizations and Sorting
I love visualizations. One of my all time favorites are the programs that show how different sorting algorithms work. I was reminded of this by a recent post by...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nike IPhone Running App
You may remember much earlier in the days of the Web Nike had experimented with this idea, but without Apps or GPS. Our New Business Deveopment team talked todetailed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Review and Advertising Policy
Readers, Publishers, Vendors,I have had an increasing number of requests to have advertising links placed in this blog.In general I do not take advertising that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Study Habits
A good piece in the NYT Views on study habits. Are people left brain vs right brain? Visual versus analytical learners? This is important not only for kids in school...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robotics Newsletter
NASA has a new robotics newsletter, via IEEE. In the most recent edition they point to a piece by Marvin Minsky on Telepresence. We met with Minsky and read lots...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Back to School (If You Ever Left)
Today is the first official day back to school, even though classes don't start until Thursday. I used to get very excited about this new beginning, but lately...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IPad Review by Small Biz Labs
The Small Business Labs blog looks at and and reviews the IPad from the perspective of the small business. In particular about its value as a means to consume rather...
From Computational Complexity
How to Write Up Major Results
First some conference news: FOCS conference and hotel registration available on line, early deadline is September 30. STOC 2011 website is up with the CFP, deadline...
From Schneier on Security
Consumerization and Corporate IT Security
If you're a typical wired American, you've got a bunch of tech tools you like and a bunch more you covet. You have a cell phone that can easily text. You've got...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-09-07
Fair, Reasonable And Non-Discriminatory…Ain't Good pointer here by Glyn to an action we can take to check the effects of pro-patent lobbying in Europe. He misses...
From The Noisy Channel
Slouching Toward Creepiness
One of the perks of blogging is that publishers sometimes send me review copies of new books. I couldn’t help but be curious about a book entitled “The Man Who...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Clean Water for a Billion People
Our enterprise did considerable work in clean water projects, and won an Amex competition on delivering clean water. I acted as an analyst for the World Bank on...
From Apophenia
How Censoring Craigslist Helps Pimps, Child Traffickers, and Other Abusive Scumbags
[Originally posted at Huffington Post] For the last 12 years, I’ve dedicated immense amounts of time, money, and energy to end violence against women and children...
From Wild WebMink
URGENT: Has Your MEP Signed The ACTA Written Declaration?
Here is a list of MEPs for UK constituencies. As of now, none of these MEPs has signed the Written Declaration on ACTA.It’s entirely possible one of them is representing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Debating a Signaling Model of Education
In the enterprise we used to talk about how many people joined our company simply to 'get their ticket punched'. Based on my own conversations with some people...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How reliable is science?
It is not difficult find instances of fraud in science: Ranjit Chandra faked medical research results. He pocketed the money meant for running the experiments....
From Computer Science Teachers Association