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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
Want proof that market fit is everything? Test your app in the slums of Sao Paulo
For the Stanford-educated founders of Emprego Ligado, creating a successful app in Brazil required dismantling every assumption about the target audience. Emprego...
From Computational Complexity
Planarizing Gadgets for Perfect Matching do not Exist!
At Dagstuhl I was delighted when I saw the title of a talk to be given Planarizing Gadgets for Perfect Matching do not Exist because I had asked the question about...
From Schneier on Security
The Risks of Trusting Experts
I'm not sure what to think about this story: Six Italian scientists and an ex-government official have been sentenced to six years in prison over the 2009 deadly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Parc Learned
On what Xerox spinoff Parc learned about open innovation. We visited Parc many times and they us, always interesting. " ... The concept of open innovation has...
From Wild WebMink
FLOSS Weekly on Baserock
I was co-host on today’s FLOSS Weekly episode, about the Baserock continuous integration system for Linux (and also the amazing 8 CPU/32 core Baserock Slab server...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computing Projects for Girls
This is a big topic on my mind of late. There is some discussion of this in the comments on my Boring Projects post and well as some responses via Twitter. Joanne...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
DARPA Officially Launches Robotics Grand Challenge – Watch Pet-Proto Robot in Action
Today, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) officially kicked off its newest Grand Challenge, DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC). As we’ve blogged previously...
From Schneier on Security
Risks of Data Portability
Peter Swire and Yianni Lagos have pre-published a law journal article on the risks of data portability. It specifically addresses an EU data protection regulation...
From Putting People First
Core77 report on the Design Research Conference
A few days before the EPIC conference in Savannah, Chicago’s IIT Institute of Design organised and hosted its yearly Design Research conference. Although no videos...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dash Boards and all that
Interestingly thoughts by Stephen Few. On the use of dash board displays for control. Dashboards are just simple displays.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Up again, Learning Again.
I have many close watchers who have noticed this blog has been dark for several days. This is the first time this happened for years. A number of people noticed...
From My Biased Coin
STOC 2013 Submissions
I was asked to post the following regarding STOC 2013 submissions:1) Please read the Call for Papers carefully and pay special attentionto length and formatting...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Let Me Buy You a Beer: A Message from a CSTA Advocate
While I'm truly honored to be the first recipient of the CSTA Leadership Cohort APP (Advocacy Points Program) award, I wish to recognize members of CSTA Chicago...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Announces “Exploiting Parallelism and Scalability” (XPS) Program
This week, the National Science Foundation issued a solicitation for its new Exploiting Parallelism and Scalability (XPS) program. The program aims to support groundbreaking...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
When is a bitmap faster than an integer list?
You can represent a list of distinct integers no larger than N using exactly N bits: if the integer i appears in your list, you set the i th bit to true. Bits for...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Boring Projects
Recently someone I really respect posted a recommendation against using Visual Basic saying “ I find most textbooks for Visual Basic to have boring assignmentsSkins...
From Wild WebMink
Concentration of Power
Hearing that Amazon had remotely wiped someone’s Kindle, I decided to investigate and find out if it had actually happened. It hadn’t, but what had happened instead...
From updated sporadically at best
Why Do Women Want to "Have It All?"
Last week, former State Department director Anne-Marie Slaughter's Atlantic piece "Why Women Still Can't Have It All" spurred a flurry of internet discussion: there...
From updated sporadically at best