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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 U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
House Takes Another Crack at Updating NITRD
Yesterday the House Science, Space and Technology Committee approved legislation updating the High Performance Computing Act of 1991. That law, among other things...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Thoughts on CS & STEM Higher-ed Enrollments
I've recently come across two perspectives on undergraduate enrollments, one about STEM disciplines, one specifically about CS. Both warrant comment. First, there's...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Effective compression using frame-of-reference and delta coding
Most generic compression techniques are based on variations on run-length encoding (RLE) and Lempel-Ziv compression. Compared to these techniques and on the right...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Looking at Text
Bill Inmon takes a general, non technical look at the problem of dealing with textual data. It remains a more difficult form of data to deal with. He introduces...
From Computational Complexity
The 17x17 problem SOLVED! (also 18x18)
THE 17x17 PROBLEM HAS BEEN SOLVED!!!!! On Nov 30, 2009 I posted here the following challenge: If someone emails me a 4-coloring of 17x17 with no monochromatic...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NIST to Fund Pilot Projects Advancing Trusted Identities
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced last week a new competition to fund pilot projects that accelerate progress toward “improved...
From Schneier on Security
Solving the Underlying Economic Problem of Internet Piracy
This essay is definitely thinking along the correct directions.
From The Eponymous Pickle
More on Hand Scanning at Fresh & Easy
From the comments, Clive Black links to a more detailed article on the Fresh & Easy Scanning, including some pictures. Based on the pictures shown, there were...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hand Scanning at Fresh & Easy
More on another test of shopper barcode hand scanning to improve the checkout process and provide targeted promotions. Note this uses dedicated devices rather...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
The New Science of Teaching and Learning
What do you get when you mix psychology, education, and neuroscience? For Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa, you get MBE (Mind, Brain, and Education) Science. I recently...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Turning iPhones into Microscopes
In GigaOm. Or at least displays for real microscopes. Another example of sensors linked to mobile devices. We will continue to see more of these. Its adding...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Headline: Value Drives Loyalty
In Mediapost: Surprise, consumer experience, especially 'delight' drives loyalty. Nothing very new here, but the specifics of the categories and data are interesting...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Releases Report on Cloud Computing
The National Science Foundation (NSF) yesterday released a report on its support for cloud computing, describing the outcomes of “investments in cloud computing...
From Schneier on Security
Error Rates of Hand-Counted Voting Systems
The error rate for hand-counted ballots is about two percent. All voting systems have nonzero error rates. This doesn't surprise technologists, but does surprise...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Tools for Teaching Adults to Program
We seem to be developing tools to teach younger and younger people to program. Kodu in theory is for students 8 and older but I know that some 6 and 7 years olds...
From Wild WebMink
How To Fight ACTA
Now that the US bills SOPA and PIPA have been put on ice, attention has returned to their parent, an international treaty called ACTA. I’ve written extensively...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Argus Insights : Product Innovation
Brought to my attention by a client: Argus Insights. " ... Products that exceed user expectations win. Very simply, delighted customers buy more.Companies that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Real World Retail Analytics Using Kinect
Just brought to my attention. Shopperception: " ... The Kinect sensors allow us to bring new and exciting 3D spatial recognition tools to the market research...
From Schneier on Security
The Failure of Two-Factor Authentication
In 2005, I wrote an essay called "The Failure of Two-Factor Authentication," where I predicted that attackers would get around multi-factor authentication systems...
From Computational Complexity