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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
Google Offers Power Searching Course
While many of us, and our students, are frequent users of search engines, how many of us could really call ourselves "power users", that is, users who can do more...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Bytes or octets?
Quick: what is the definition of a byte (as in two kilobytes)? If you said it is a unit of 8 bits, you failed. Correct answer (according to IEEE 1541): A byte is...
From Computational Complexity
Why is it called the Turing Award?
The ACM Turing Award represents the highest honor in the computing research community, the closest we have to a Nobel prize in computer science. In this centenary...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Driving Conversations
A set of videos on driving conversations using Google Analytics. Nicely done. " ... This new video series features our Analytics Advocate Justin Cutroni. He...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Adding a Day to the Work Week
Ever since being able to log into systems from home, the trend of extending the work week has progressed. Now some actual data on how data mobility as taken it...
From Schneier on Security
Commercial Espionage Virus
It's designed to steal blueprints and send them to China. Note that although this is circumstantial evidence that the virus is from China, it is possible that...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Microsoft Research Faculty Summit Live Stream 2012
I received this news from the ACM recently. The Microsoft Research Faculty Summit will be available live for the public this year. I
From Wild WebMink
ACTA Needs You
Just posted on ComputerWorldUK – why you need to call or write to your MEP now, ahead of Wednesday’s vote on ACTA, and how to do it. By the way, is anyone else...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Goes 3D
Amazon buys UpNext. To make a play at 3D mapping. " ... UpNext, which had apparently been pursued by other major tech companies, has launched apps for the iPad...
From The Eponymous Pickle
DARPA and XDATA
Currently taking a closer look at DARPA XDATA: " ... To enable large scale data processing in a wide range of potential settings, XDATA plans to release open source...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Where is the computer science at ISTE?
My prime focus at Microsoft is K-12 computer science education. While I am very interested in various areas of using technology in education I basically get paid...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Tests Augmented Reality Shopping App
In Adage: Have not seen IBM involved on the shelves of retail for a while. This is an interesting test of theirs in the testing the experience of in-store interaction...
From Schneier on Security
WEIS 2012
Last week I was at the Workshop on Economics and Information Security in Berlin. Excellent conference, as always. Ross Anderson liveblogged the event; see the...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 2 July 2012
I was pretty quiet last week. Some family stuff going on kept me away from work and (largely) off the Internet. Still over the last few days I have been catching...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Connect the Stars
How papers are like constellations Bob Vaughan is a mathematician at Penn State University. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society—not ours, Ben Franklin helped...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wearable Technology in the Background
In the NYT: An article suggesting that systems like Google Project Glass, once they are implemented well, will be a major shift that puts tech into the background...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Who teaches CS?
In a previous blog post (3/10/2012), Thinking Big About Computer Science Education, Baker Franke addressed two tightly-coupled problems: where does computer science...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stat Tracking Shoes
Nike comes out with Stat tracking shoes. I had a talk with a person recently involved in the use of sensors and data gathering and analysis in athletics, and I...
From Putting People First