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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 Schneier on Security
Rare Spanish Enigma Machine
This is a neat story: A pair of rare Enigma machines used in the Spanish Civil War have been given to the head of GCHQ, Britain's communications intelligence agency...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
26 March 2012
Busy week (as usual) in between meetings and trying to Get ready for Windows 8. I also spent some time at a high school programming contest which I
From Putting People First
Desire engines
Nir Eyal’s third Techcrunch article on behavioural engineering, delves into the topic of “desire engines”. “Desire engines go beyond reinforcing behavior; they...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Making Navigation Systems Unusable
In CNet Reviews: An example of how to let regulations contort perfectly good technology to make their use as unusable and complicated as possible. Keep it simple...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shoppologist
Just discovered. The Shoppologist. Retro looking view at things shopping with some discovered gems.
From Wild WebMink
? ORGCon, London
I spent the day yesterday at ORGCon with friends old and new, enjoying talks from a wide range of speakers including of course Cory Doctorow and Lawrence Lessig...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smartphone vs Dumbphone and a Lesson in a Bagel Shop
Colleague Walter Riker looks at the Smart phone-dumb phone conundrum. I thought this was all solved already, but maybe not. Can everyone master the smart phone...
From The Eponymous Pickle
VisionIQ Tagging Images
On VisionIQ: This was brought to mind because in a previous world I dealt with the methodology of reliably tagging arbitrary images, difficult without humanIQ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Learning Bursts
A look at the concept of 'learning bursts'. short time duration, repeated learning sessions. " ... A learning burst is a combination of an eight- to 10-minute...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Who Is In Charge
I have to confess that I have not been doing a great job of keeping up with my blog reading lately. I
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
In Memoriam: David L. Waltz
The computing research community lost a wonderful researcher, colleague, and friend last week. David L. Waltz, whose extraordinary contributions and service to...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Single Sex CS Education from the Student's Perspective
As a student at an all-women's college, there are no barriers to my exploration of typically male-dominated fields. Before taking an introductory computer science...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Preventive Health via Social Gaming
Kind of an obvious thing at one level. But how do you make it work well? Health is a personal thing, so are people willing to share specific information to empower...
From My Biased Coin
Best Written Paper
Daniel Lemire pointed to an article on bad writing in science (here if you care to see, not CS-specific), which got me to thinking: do we (in whatever subcommunity...
From The Eponymous Pickle
WalMart Labs and Big Data Tools
Intriguing Change:" ... Walmart is making a change in the way it does online commerce and there
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G and PInterest
An interesting piece about P&G using Pinterest. Always something new. Not sure if it solves their social media 'problem', but it does get some new brand managers...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog