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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 Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Rating FOCS 1973
Can we rate the research topics from 1973? Janos Simon is one of Juris Hartmanis’ illustrious students. He did not have a paper in FOCS 1973, but did have one with...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Chevy and Google Glass
In Adage: Execs look at Google Glass. Navigation, augmented reality, service support? Lots of possibilities.
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Exhibit at the Monterey Bay Aquarium
Opens spring 2014. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Clouds, Analytics and Advanced Patient Care
Recently pointed out to me, “Turning Healthcare Vision into Reality with the Cloud” by Scott Megill, CEO of Coriell Life Sciences in the IBM Smarter Planet blog...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching Problem Solving
One of the things we like to say learning computer science in general and programming in particular leads to is learning problem solving. It’s a nice theory and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
US Moves to Become Top Global Energy Producer
From MJ Perry: A visualization and view of data about real markets in action. US Moving quickly to be top global energy producer. Not aided by, but often in...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
What are the genuinely useful ideas in programming?
The software industry is probably the most dynamic and innovation of all industries. However, many people also try to convince us to adapt new ideas despite their...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile Consumer Behavior Visualized Simply
From POPAI: An infographic that Googe developed to illustrate mobile consumer behavior. The piece is low information, easy on your eyes, they say. Saving us...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Self Service BI for Small Businesses
A number of approaches to bring self service business intelligence to the small to medium sized company.
From Schneier on Security
Developments in Microphone Technology
What's interesting is that this matchstick-sized microphone can be attached to drones. Conventional microphones work when sound waves make a diaphragm move, creating...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Testing of First Commercial Quantum Computer
In Wired, have followed for years. I know some of the founders. More testing of the D-Wave system, now being used by Lockheed, Google and NASA. There is still...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Confessions of an Elementary Computer Science Teacher
After teaching computer science and technology for over 13 years and not even reaching my forties, I started wondering how my teaching methods and style have changed...
From Schneier on Security
Is Cybersecurity a Profession?
A National Academy of Sciences panel says no: Sticking to the quality control aspect of the report, professionalization, it says, has the potential to attractreport...
From The Eponymous Pickle
ARHouse: Architectural Insertion App
A correspondent in the area of augmented reality has sent along a writeup on a newly developed App for delivering 3D architectural models in real spaces with new...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
CS Principles and the CS 10k Initiative / GHC13
As the opening keynote here at GHC reminded us, computer science has a supply problem. The number of people we need to create technology is increasing at a much...
From Putting People First
Interaction-Ivrea, Arduino and Intel’s Galileo
Intel’s Arduino-compatible open-source Galileo development board was launched today in Italy at Rome’s Maker Faire. Rightfully so, as the initiative has such deep...
From Putting People First
Dancing to silent algorithms
More and more, we live our lives according to the unknown auspices of machine codes, writes Frank Swain. “Our lives are influenced by technologies not simply as...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson Does Research with Recipes
In MIT Tech Review: Intelligence for research. The model of food recipe construction and how it might be applied to other questions. Again, in our own experimentation...
From The Eponymous Pickle