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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 Computer Science Teachers Association
Using Exploratory learning for CS
This year I am making some changes in my introductory Computer Science class. Last year, I added Scratch and BYOB as lead-ins to my standard programming language...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
I Can Figure It Out Myself
I set out for my daily walk today hoping for inner peace and calm. What I found was a bit of inspiration. About a half mile into my walk I saw a little girl, could...
From Schneier on Security
Analysis of How Bitcoin Is Actually Used
"Quantitative Analysis of the Full Bitcoin Transaction Graph," by Dorit Ron and Adi Shamir: Abstract. The Bitcoin scheme is a rare example of a large scale global...
From Putting People First
Spacebrew, an open source toolkit for creating interactive spaces
Spacebrew is a new software – currently in beta release – for prototyping and producing interactive spaces. It was developed by the Interaction Lab at the Rockwell...
From Putting People First
Daniel Bor: ‘It’s just a gut instinct, but Blink got it wrong’
Daniel Bor is a cognitive neuro-scientist at the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, University of Sussex, and author of The Ravenous Brain: How the New Science...
From Putting People First
The Club of Helsinki – co-creation of urban development projects
The Club of Helsinki is a non-profit organization that offer possibilities to co-create urban development projects that prototype new integrated and sustainable...
From Putting People First
Transforming Bodies & Lifestyles: Insights into Inspiring Behavior Change
Transforming Bodies & Lifestyles: Insights into Inspiring Behavior Change Institute For The Future 2012 Inspiring people to change their behaviors in order to become...
From Putting People First
Wearable tech pioneers aim to track and augment our lives
Wearable technology is still in its infancy but as it increasingly taps into a desire to have the functionality of technology without the intrusiveness. A BBC article...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Finish the Features or Hit the Date
In professional development there is always a trade off between what features to have in a product and when you want to ship the product. Dare Obasanjo @Carnage4Life...
From Computational Complexity
Dagstuhl Typecast
Nerd Shot from Dagstuhl Seminar 12421 Lance: Welcome to another Typecast from beautiful Schloss Dagstuhl. I’m here with Bill for the Workshop on Algebraic.Bill...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tweets are Big Data
Are Tweets data? In GigaOm. With the increasing use of tweets the need for real-time analytics is happening more, I recently did an evaluation that dealt with...
From Schneier on Security
Genetic Privacy
New report from the Presidential Commission for the Study of Biothethical Issues. It's called "Privacy and Progress in Whole Genome Sequencing." The Commission...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Killing Curiosity
I have real mixed feelings about the Advanced Placement exams in general and the AP Computer Science exam in particular. Very mixed. There are some criticisms in...
From Putting People First
UX articles and dissertations from Denmark
Mind Design, the Design Research Webzine of the Danish Centre for Design Research, contains a wealth of information, all available in English. Here are some highlights...
From Wild WebMink
Open Source and Cloud
After the Community Summit at Open World Forum, three of the speakers – including me – spent 10 minutes discussing how cloud computing impacts the open source community...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Blog Reaches Over 300,000 Views!
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Blog, which was created in 2008, has served as a means for exchanging information between the research community and funding...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Temporal Forecasting Story
Connecting methods to provide forecasts. Forecasts based on semantically rich text data, such as that based on blog entries, news posts, or tweets. Today I met...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data Sites
A number of sites to watch that deal with the topic of big data. lots of hype of late, but the topic needs to be watched as techniques evolve.
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP