Communications of the ACM
Refine your search:
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
Too Many Patents
In Hoover. I have seen a great deal of junk and arbitrary thoughts patented. With the hope of bullying money from companies. There is much need for reform. Some...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links Post 21 January 2013
One week until I face a new group of students. Unlike classroom visits in recent years these students are “mine” full time for a semester. Excited to say the least...
From Wild WebMink
Governance Lessons from Vert.x
The open discussion that the Vert.x community ended up having because of Tim Fox’s original announcement and the ripples it caused has produced fruit, in the shape...
From The Eponymous Pickle
True Impact Neuromarketing
Recently connected with Diana Lucaci of True Impact Marketing in Toronto. A Canadian firm that does neuromarketing studies. I was impressed with their list of...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Vint Cerf appointed to National Science Board by President Obama
On January 16, President Obama announced his intention to appoint Vint Cerf – Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist at Google – to the National Science Board...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
PCAST releases new assessment of Networking and Information Technology Research and Development
In 2010, the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) conducted a major review of the Federal government’s $4B multi-agency research and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Information Literacy
I had cause to look at the Information Literacy Blog yesterday. Articles covering information collaboration, which you can see have been of interest to me lately...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Concern About Millenials
I have always thought that concerns about adapting to epochal population groups are overplayed. My own experience has been that it is true that there are differences...
From Putting People First
Book: Ethnography and the City – Readings on Doing Urban Fieldwork
Ethnography and the City: Readings on Doing Urban Fieldwork Richard E. Ocejo (Editor) Routledge, 2012, 272 pages (Amazon link) The only collection of its kind on...
From Putting People First
The irrational consumer: why economics is dead wrong about how we make choices
“The New Science of Pleasure,” a new paper by Daniel L. McFadden, reviews how psychology, biology, and neurology are ganging up on economics to prove that, when...
From Writing
MySQL error: last packet sent to the server was XXX ms ago
I just spent a few weeks battling a strange, infrequent, hard-to-reproduce error when using JDBC to talk to MySQL. After about a dozen experiments, I think I've...
From Wild WebMink
Snowy Branches
Snowy Branches, originally uploaded by webmink. Snow is something of a novelty where we live, despite being in England. The mildness that results from being on...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smarter Traffic Pilot
I notice in a current press release that the city of Cologne, Germany has completed a pilot of a smarter traffic system created by IBM. In graduate school we used...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Cantor’s Theorem: The Movie
A short film about the famous diagonal method of Cantor Source: “One Water” Ed Talavera is the chair of the Department of Cinema and Interactive Communication in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Modular Sensors: Node
In GigaOM, from CES, A video about the Node modular sensor. Integrating sensors into the net and analytic processes is an important next step to the 'thinking'...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Curiosity as Gateway Competency
Good thought here. Developed broadly in Chief Learning Officer mag: " ... Curiosity may be the most helpful competency in business today. Start with genuine inquisitiveness...
From updated sporadically at best
Cooking for One
You there. Eating takeout at your kitchen counter, pots and pans clean and neatly stowed. Third time this week. Your taste buds are getting a little bit bored and...
From updated sporadically at best
How Science Really Works
The theme of the week is research, theory vs. practice.This past week, the #overlyhonestmethods Twitter hashtag went viral, my friend Phil Guo published an MITHow...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
CSTA Standards Now Aligned to Other National Standards
Have you become familiar with the new CSTA K-12 Computer Science Standards? I'm sure you are aware that the standards were revised and published in December 2011...
From Schneier on Security