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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
Getting the value of Big Data
Perceptive colleague Jason Terry sends along a link to a good overview piece on this topic in ZDnet. Winnowing good data from the junk is part of the reason it...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unintentional Data Innovation
In Technology Review:Why were the recent Russian meteor fall observed by so many cameras? It turns out there is a large incentive, for insurance purposes, to...
From Putting People First
Tablet use in California and Ontario high schools – Field observations by Experientia collaborator
Francesca Salvadori (Italian blog) is an Italian high school teacher who runs a 1:1 iPad pilot program in her school, and collaborates with Experientia on the topic...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Drinkable Costmetics
In Cosmeticsdesign: Popular in Asia, "nutricosmetics" could start to make a splash in the West, trend watchers say. The beauty drinks, some of which contain antioxidants...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: More on Flying Squid
Japanese squid researchers have confirmed flying squid can fly, and how they do it. (Note: I have written about flying squid before.) As usual, you can also use...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics IQ
Fascinating piece on consumer financial intelligence: Analytics-IQ launches industry's most accurate predictor of household economic profiles with "consumer financial...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Turning Data into Smart Data
In Information Week: Fundamentally agree, but it's really more about turning raw data into smarter decisions. I have not lapsed into call everything 'Smarter'...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM Chair Comments on Cybersecurity Executive Order
On Tuesday, as part of the State of the Union address, President Obama issued an executive order on cybersecurity. The order focuses on the cybersecurity of critical...
From Schneier on Security
Jacob Appelbaum's 29C3 Keynote Speech
This speech from last December's 29C3 (29th Chaos Communication Congress) is worth listening to. He talks about what we can do in the face of oppressive power...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Throw Out The Usual Suspects
Anyone who has spent time in a classroom knows that there are some students, usually a small number, to take up most of the class participation. It’s not that they...
From Wild WebMink
Learning from LibreOffice
LibreOffice is built from a large legacy codebase that dates back over 20 years. It includes millions of lines of code, can be compiled for a wide range of platforms...
From Schneier on Security
Guessing Smart Phone PINs by Monitoring the Accelerometer
"Practicality of Accelerometer Side Channels on Smartphones," by Adam J. Aviv. Benjamin Sapp, Matt Blaze, and Jonathan M. Smith. Abstract: Modern smartphonesArticle...
From Computational Complexity
Beauty and Science
Christopher Shea wrote a recent Chronicle Review article Is Scientific Truth Always Beautiful? I would argue the answer is yes, and it boils down to Occam's Razor...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
New Thoughts on App Inventor
In September 2011, I posted about how much I like App Inventor as a tool to get students excited about computer science along with believing that they have the...
From My Biased Coin
ICALP formatting
Given the loud outcry regarding the STOC 2013 formatting, which gave you 10 double-column pages to work with (at the cost of, you know, having to turn your paper...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Kid Friendly Newspapers Via Augmented Reality
Someone recently shared this Popular Science article about an augmented reality app that 'translates' newspapers for children. The main idea is to simplify the...
From Schneier on Security
Using the iWatch for Authentication
Usability engineer Bruce Tognazzini talks about how an iWatch -- which seems to be either a mythical Apple product or one actually in development -- can make authentication...
From Putting People First
First outputs from Intel research centre on sustainable connected cities
The Intel Collaborative Research Institute for Sustainable Connected Cities – a cooperation between University College London (UCL), Imperial College London and...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog