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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 Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
2012 Microsoft Research Faculty Summit Day One
Oh what a day! I’m at the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit at Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond WA this week. This is a big event for Microsoft Research with...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
An Education Tsunami
Will on-line courses destroy universities? Daphne Koller is a famous researcher who is on the faculty at Stanford University. She started her career as a theorist...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Greenplum Analytics Blog
I have seen some interesting things out of Greenplum. They have just announced an analytics blog." ... Datastream, Greenplum’s official blog, delivering analytics...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
No Screen Time Under Two
We've got two computer scientists in our three-person family. Would it surprise you that our daughter, currently seven months old, is not allowed to watch anyThis...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unlocking the Predictive Power of the Web
A piece in Singularity Hub on the temporal search in the forward looking search engine Recordedfuture, which I have now followed for some time. It now has a new...
From Schneier on Security
Remote Scanning Technology
I don't know if this is real or fantasy: Within the next year or two, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will instantly know everything about your body,remote...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Benefits of Being Out of Touch
As PC use declines, we still expect to be in touch. Our devices call us to attention. We share the devices with personal communications and the difference blurs...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of July 16
July 17 Hearing: The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will hold a hearing on the electric grid and cybersecurity. 10 a.m., 366 Dirksen Building July...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Cure for the CS Blues
Are you the only CS Teacher in your district? In your area? Are you feeling the pressure of trying to promote a curriculum that the schools/states do not always...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Revisiting P&G's Connect & Develop
Fast Company on P&G's Connect & Develop Approach. Good article on the purpose and direction of P&G's outsourcing of innovation using Connect and Develop. I would...
From Computational Complexity
CCC12: Post 1 of n
(Post 1 of n on CCC 2012. I don't know how large n is yet.) I will discuss the papers in the order they were presented. June 26, 2012. Morning Amplifying Circuit...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Immersive Visualization
From Mindjet: Good overview of the concept of immersing yourself, and your business teams, in your data. I have covered the broad idea a number of times.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 16 July 2012
The Microsoft Research Faculty Summit starts today (about noon eastern US time) Much of it will be streamed at http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/events...
From The Eponymous Pickle
PC Sales Slump
PC Sales are decreasing. Good statistics. Traditional sales leaders like HP and Dell are getting hit with the expectation of the company and worker that software...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Meaningful Use of Complex Medical Data
Organizers of the second annual symposium on Meaningful Use of Complex Medical Data (MUCMD)
From Putting People First
The Machine and The Ghost
Moralizing Technology: Understanding and Designing the Morality of Things Peter-Paul Verbeek University of Chicago Press, 2011 183 pages (Amazon link) Christine...
From Putting People First
The psychology of content design
In a long article Jonathan Cutrell talks about a strategy for creating content that revolves around its portability to multiple scenarios, devices, and access frames...
From Putting People First
How Google is becoming an extension of your mind
Stephen Shankland thinks that Google is becoming an extension of your mind, an omnipresent digital assistant that figures out what you need and supplies it before...
From Putting People First
That
Peter Maass and Megha Rajagopalan argue in the New York Times Sunday Review that the device in your purse or jeans that you think is a cellphone, is in fact a tracking...
From The Eponymous Pickle