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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 Eponymous Pickle
Changing Education
Good piece in Cisco blog on how education is changing. More than just MOOC. Easy inclusion of video is a big part of this. Just today had a connection with...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Spirit of Innovation Challenge
A new competitive event for students via this announcement from the CSTA mailing list. >The Spirit of Innovation Challenge is an excellent way to help your students...
From Schneier on Security
On Anonymous
Gabriella Coleman has published an interesting analysis of the hacker group Anonymous: Abstract: Since 2010, digital direct action, including leaks, hacking and...
From Computational Complexity
Celebrating Maths in Oxford
This week I'm in Oxford for the opening of the new Andrew Wiles Mathematical Institute building and the Clay Research Conference including on workshop on New....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Monsanto Bets a $ Billion on Big Data Analytics
In Computerworld: The connections to micro weather forecasting and insurance are particularly interesting. This is another example of the large investments"...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
An Exciting First Day at GHC13
Today was our first full day in Minneapolis for this year's edition of the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. It's so nice to live the conferencecheck...
From My Biased Coin
Some Advice on Entrepreneurship from the AH meeting
At the Andreessen Horowitz academic round table (see past post), there was various advice, some of it contradictory, for professor-types interested in startingAMPLab...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Glass Alternative in Japan
And yet more in the world of wearable devices, this from Japan: At least in its prototype this looks fairly clunky ...." ... This week at Ceatec, a technology trade...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intel Wearables
Even Intel is doing wearables. On Intel's New Devices Group: Did not realize they were a player until I saw this: " ... When most people think about the future...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Mobility
In the Cisco Blog: Is it an disappearing act? I am inclined to think it will, like the phone, still be visible and mostly selective for some time. I do like...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crowdsourcing Maps?
Waze, now part of Google maps, also made me thing of this, at least in outsourcing the metadata about the maps. Can maps be crowdsourced?
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Stealing Strategies
How constructive are strategy stealing proofs? David Gale was a famous mathematician and economist, who passed away just over five years ago. I had the honor of...
From Schneier on Security
On Secrecy
"When everything is classified, then nothing is classified." I should suppose that moral, political, and practical considerations would dictate that a very first...
From Schneier on Security
My TEDx Talk
I spoke at TEDxCambridge last month on security and power. Here's the video.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unilever New Product Development
" Unilever announces the launch of a research project with the University of Liverpool to develop the next generation of renewable chemicals from biomass to use...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CS Ed Week and an Hour of Code are coming
An announcement for Hadi Partovi, founder of code.org, about Computer Science Education Week (Dec. 9-15) and the Hour of Code initiative. To celebrate...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Waze and Google, Together
Was an early user of Waze, which did some very interesting things with social car travel. Intriqued about how Google bought them for $1 Billion. Now the US FTC...
From Geeking with Greg
Quick links
What I found interesting lately: Xkcd on the halting problem: "Big picture .... all things must someday die" ([1]) "Your fingerprint isn't a secret; you leave...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Curious Voyager
My longtime colleague Walter Riker, has a long running blog Curious Voyager. Follow him. He does excellent training in the MS Office Space. He also keeps up...
From The Eponymous Pickle