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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 CERIAS Blog
Centers of ... Adequacy, Revisited
Almost two years ago I wrote in this blog about how CERIAS (and Purdue) was not going to resubmit for the NSA/DHS Centers of Academic Excellence program. Some of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
DemandTec and Target
We saw DemandTec during their early days as a revenue management system. An impressive and sophisticated approach. Gigaom posts a good article on their work with...
From Schneier on Security
The Real Risk: Traffic Deaths
The New York Times Room for Debate blog did the topic: "Do We Tolerate Too Many Traffic Deaths?"
From Putting People First
Intel transforming lives of senior citizens in 2050
This month Chip Chick, the site that focuses on technology for women, was invited by Intel to its annual Upgrade Your Life Event where the company presented what...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Teaching Reflection
I'm just about finished the Graduate University Teaching Skills Certificate (GUTS) program I took this summer. I also just had the last class of my first timeBinary...
From Computational Complexity
Foundational ... or simply a curiosity (Guest Post by Vijay Vazarani)
(Guest Post by Vijay Vazirani) Foundational ... or Simply a Curiosity? Conventional wisdom has it that whereas linear programs have rational solutions,...
From Schneier on Security
Buying an ATM Skimmer
Interesting: TM skimmers -- or fraud devices that criminals attach to cash machines in a bid to steal and ultimately clone customer bank card data -- are marketed...
From Putting People First
The reality of social media
In this post Adrian Chan “teases apart the objective and subjective dimensions of social media, to examine what
From Putting People First
Don Norman: the Want interview
“The ability to explain complex academic theories in palatable layman
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Multiple Paths into Computer Science
This started out as a comment on Mark Guzdial
From CERIAS Blog
Own Your Own Space
I have been friends with Linda McCarthy for many years. As a security strategist she has occupied a number of roles -- running research groups, managing corporate...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Scent Branding
The use of scent was covered nicely in the current Business Week. I have mentioned a number of times our work in the innovation centers installing, testing andposts...
From Apophenia
Upcoming fieldwork: What do you want to know?
I’m gearing up for a bunch of new on-the-ground fieldwork and intend to do a host of semi-structured interviews with American teenagers in different parts of the...
From Schneier on Security
Cheating on Tests, by the Teachers
If you give people enough incentive to cheat, people will cheat: Of all the forms of academic cheating, none may be as startling as educators tampering with children's...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 21 June 2010
By rough count I went through 160 Tweets to cull out the interesting links for today’s post. It makes me wonder if I tweet too much. Of course for me Twitter is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter Offers Advice for Male Homemakers
Male oriented housekeeping tips from P&G. I have taken a look at it, well done, it is a multi-contributor blog. " ... Procter & Gamble has launched a household...
From Computational Complexity
CCC 2010
( Reminder:Deadline for submitting to special issue of Theory of Computing in honor of Rajeev Motwani is July 30. See here. ) CCC 2010! Ran Raz gave an...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of June 21
June 22 Hearing: The Competitiveness, Innovation, and Export Promotion Subcommittee of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee will hold a hearing...
From My Biased Coin
Colocating Conferences -- What Will It Take?
In the ongoing future of STOC debate, one possibility that seems to have significant support is that we should do more colocation of conferences. (See Suresh's...
From Putting People First