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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
Panel 2: NSTIC, Trusted Identities and the Internet (Panel Summary)
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013 Panel Members: Cathy Tilton, VP Standards and Technology, Daon Solutions Elisa Bertino, Professor, Computer Science and CERIAS Fellow...
From Computational Complexity
You should apply for STOC and/or CCC travel money (students)
Once again there is some money from ACM and from NSF for students to goto STOC, and I am the one to send the applications to. The link for info on how to apply...
From CERIAS Blog
Panel 1: Security Analytics, Analysis, and Measurement (Panel Summary)
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013 Panel Members: Alok Chaturvedi, Professor, Management, Purdue University Samuel Liles, Associate Professor, Computer and Information...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Informatics Education Report in Europe – they get it!
A joint report of Informatics Europe and the ACM Europe Working Group on Informatics Education was recently released. The report highlights what is currently being...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data Applications Survey
Interesting survey of applications. " ... While most companies intend to invest in big data technologies, a lack of human resources and know-how keeps them from...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
When is Augmented Reality the Right Choice?
Last fall, we published a paper about augmented reality, cognitive theories, and learning. I previously wrote about the design advantages of AR; these give insight...
From Schneier on Security
Remotely Hijacking an Aircraft
There is a lot of buzz on the the Internet about a talk at the Hack-in-the Box conference by Hugo Teso, who claims he can hack in to remotely control an airplane's...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The Book Reimagined by Video Game Makers
VIDYA BOOKS: the book, as reimagined by video game makers is a Kickstarter project that is being spearheaded by someone I met while I was at Microsoft. Joe Booth...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM and Flash Memory
IBM reports that it will invest $1 Billion in Flash memory development. In particular, this can point to fast analytics solutions for Big Data Applications. ...
From Wild WebMink
OSI License Clinic
In a new departure, the Open Source Initiative will hold a small open source license clinic oriented towards US Federal agencies. The event will be at the Library...
From Putting People First
#wethedata
Right now, data may be what we intentionally share, or what is gathered about us – the product of surveillance and tracking. We are the customer, but our data are...
From Putting People First
Insights from network data analysis that yield field observations
As part of Ethnomining, the April 2013 Ethnographymatters edition on combining qualitative and quantitative data, edited by Nicolas Nova, Fabien Girardin describes...
From Putting People First
Bitcoin is just the poster currency for a growing movement of alternative tender
Scott Smith of futures research lab Changeist writes in Quartz about the long history of alternative currencies, and criticizes Bitcoin because “they set too high...
From Putting People First
Designing better experiences through data
Access to big data is growing at an incredible pace. With increased information from various sources available on smartphones and tablets, many companies now realize...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Technologies of Touch
From a recent TED: A look at the technology of Touch. We did a number of experiments with touch interaction with products. The attempt was to include other senses...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Effective Data Visualization
In Greenplum: Procter's now classic data visualization dashboards compared to other approaches like Infographic style producer Periscopic. I have problems with...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Science
In the NYT quoting the HBR: On the sexiness of data science. Its still structure, logic and quantitative analytics. Hardly sexy to most. Well described "...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Measures Are Better
The Littlewood conjecture—another drive you crazy conjecture John Littlewood is the latter half of famous duo of Hardy-Littlewood. I have discussed him before here...
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On Choosing Between Good Schools
I have been talking to many people recently about choosing schools, both for undergraduate and graduate education. Here is a compilation and elaboration of what...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog