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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 Putting People First
Are our household appliances getting too complicated?
Who needs a kettle with four heat settings? A washing machine with a ‘freshen up’ function? A toaster with six browning modes? What happened to the good old days...
From Putting People First
Language issues. An Interview with Brigitte Jordan
Last September, social anthropologist Nora Schenkel had the opportunity to interview Brigitte Jordan, described by Cat Macaulay as one of the “godmothers” of design...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
President Obama Answers Question About Computer Science
If you haven't seen it yet, check out the two and a half minute video of President Obama on Google+ Hangout. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlOySsg7oxY When...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Real Air Travel Costs
M J Perry writes that flight travel cost per mile has decreased 50% since 1980. Interesting statistics and very surprising. Some of the commenters suggest that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Sim City
A new version of SimCity is coming out tomorrow to considerable enthusiasm. SimCity opened the eyes of a number of executives to the use of simulation when it...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Congress to Consider Patent Litigation Reforms This Week
Two events on Capitol Hill this week will focus on potential patent litigation reforms. Both will be available by live webcast. Congressional Briefing on “Patent...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gamification and Innovation
In Innovation Excellence: How gamification influences open innovation. Two favorite topics with spending numbers and forecasts. We used gamification to innovate...
From Wild WebMink
Saying “Copy” Was A Screw-Up
Why using the word "copy" was probably the screw-up that took away our rights and allowed publishing middle-men everywhere to eternally tax culture.
From Schneier on Security
New Internet Porn Scam
I hadn't heard of this one before. In New Zealand, people viewing adult websites -- it's unclear whether these are honeypot sites, or malware that notices thepop...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Stall at Disney's Tomorrowland
I have grown up around both personal and job related visits to Disney. So this review of Tomorrow Land hit home. Seen it since the late 60s. Exactly what I had...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Where are the “big problem” jobs?
Several authors, scientists and entrepreneurs have lamented our poor ability to innovate. It seems that industry is recruiting few people to work on hard problems...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Do Not Track Legislation Reintroduced in Senate
On Thursday Senator Rockefeller of West Virginia introduced legislation to establish an option for people to opt out of tracking their online activity. It is S.418...
From Computational Complexity
Do we ever NEED the adv pumping lemma for Reg langs?
Recall the Pumping Lemma and the Advanced Pumping Lemma for Regular languages: Pump. Lemma: If L is regular and infinite then there exists n such that for all...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Disfluency
In The Edge: Why do simple cues so influence what we perceive? Reminds me of Semiotics, which is also a way to look at how cues change our view of the world, recently...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ultrasound on Smartphones and Tablets
More sensor developments we need to watch. Directly how practical and accurate remains to be seen. " ... Qualcomm, in the fourth quarter of 2012, acquired the...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of March 4
March 6 Hearing: The House Homeland Security Committee will hold a hearing on the Department of Homeland Security’s role in cybersecurity for critical infrastructure...
From My Biased Coin
Rankings Don't Matter (But)
Back when I started at Harvard, people would literally say things to me like, "I didn't know Harvard had computer science." Now I could just point such people here...
From Schneier on Security
Getting Security Incentives Right
One of the problems with motivating proper security behavior within an organization is that the incentives are all wrong. It doesn't matter how much management...
From Putting People First
John Maeda on our life in 2020
In 2020 we might just regain some of the humanity that was lost in 2010, argues John Maeda, president of the Rhode Island School of Design. “The software industry...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson