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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 The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Lauren Ipsum Goes to Seven Lucky Girls
Remember that computer science storybook I mentioned recently? It turns out that the authors of Lauren Ipsum have a Get One, Give One program. I had written to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Using Social Media
McKinsey chimes in on how to use and demystify social media. Well done.
From Putting People First
Do you really want your bank following you around all day?
A conversation with senior Wells Fargo execs reveals a bank trying to use the Internet, social media and mobile technology to worm its way deeper and deeper into...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: New Book on Squid
Kraken: The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid. And a review. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Multiple Location Augmented Reality
Augmented reality to provide 3D remote interaction: "Microsoft is developing an augmented reality system that allows users in different locations to work together...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Big Data
Paul Hofmann, formerly of SAP, now with Saffron Technologies has a presentation on Big Data. Good short overview with examples that is worth reviewing.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Learning Should Be Fun
Years ago I was sitting the the front of church and via a fluke of acoustics I heard a little girl in the back of the church tell someone
From Putting People First
People-powered health co-production catalogue
The people at Nesta, the UK innovation charity, think that co-production is potentially transformative and its power comes from re-framing the problem and re-establishing...
From Putting People First
User experience and neuroscience
Harvard neuroscience researchers have just confirmed what many of us have suspected all along: social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest are...
From The Eponymous Pickle
High Performance Computing Clusters
Was just introduced to HPCC Systems. As an open source solution to a 'Big Data' problem to support a large scale enterprise simulation. Well worth a look for...
From Putting People First
Neurologist: Mobile technology is literally changing the way we think
Leading neurologist Susan Greenfield tells Nokia Conversations that we need a new framework to make sense of our
From The Eponymous Pickle
Patterns in Everyday Numbers
Cool numbers. A site to investigate the patterns in everyday numbers.The kind of site that would be good to show to children to get them interested in the patterns...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Camera Phone Tech
A recent project has me looking at the value and limitations of camera phone technology. So it was good to see this instructive article on the subject in ComputerWorld...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
BuildSys 2012 Calling for Papers: Sensors, Buildings, Energy
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From Schneier on Security
Smart Phone Privacy App
MobileScope looks like a great tool for monitoring and controlling what information third parties get from your smart phone apps: We built MobileScope as a proof...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring
Received this from the CSTA Mailing list yesterday and thought it worth sharing. Do you know someone who is doing an outstanding job of mentoring or a mentoring...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Faster Pharma
Novartis speaks of continuous manufacturing in pharmaceuticals. " .... the CEO of pharmaceutical giant Novartis, Joseph Jimenez, suggested big changes are in store...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Video Games
Video games are just plain fun! Your students know it, you know it, but so do administrators and colleagues who sometimes think that if you are teaching something...
From Computational Complexity