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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
Liars and Outliers Galleys
My publisher is printing galley copies of Liars and Outliers. If anyone out there has a legitimate reason to get one, like writing book reviews for a newspaper...
From My Biased Coin
Grading
Some folks at the NSDI meeting were nice enough to say that it was nice that I was blogging again. Sadly, I've been under-the-gun busy for the last several weeks...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Perceiving the Complex World
I met Sumon Sadhu, the Director of Intelligence for Quid today. Augmenting Our Ability to Perceive this Complex World .. " We had been trying similar things...
From Schneier on Security
Feeling vs. Reality of Security in Sparrows
Sparrows have fewer surviving offspring if they feel insecure, regardless of whether they actually are insecure. Liana Y. Zanette, Aija F. White, Marek C. Allen...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Mosaic Report: Synergies Between CS, Social Sciences
Earlier this month, the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) released a new report –
From Schneier on Security
Yet More Fear-Mongering from the DHS
Al Qaeda is sewing bombs into people. Actually, not really. This is an "aspirational" terrorist threat, which basically means that someone mentioned it whilelot...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Creating Engineers One Student At A Time
Last weekend I visited the Maine State Championship for FIRST Lego League which is run by a group of volunteers in an organization called Maine Robotics. They...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crowd Designed Episodic Game Development
Bold, Curious idea. But is it any more than just voting on minor elements of game design? I would think that a genetic oriented design based on usage would be...
From Computational Complexity
Solution to the reciprocals problem
In my last blog I asked you to look at this problem, try to solve it, and tell me if you think it is too hard for a HS competition. (I meant to post this on WED...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovation Boom
Look for the coming innovation boom. I have personally seen quite a few good ideas recently.
From Putting People First
Women to dominate tech
Chip maker and technology group Intel says that women are emerging as the dominant users of technology and if it continues to enhance its ease of use, the fairer...
From Putting People First
Philosophy of interaction
Chapter eleven of the interaction-design.org resource is now available in preview. It was written by Dag Svanaes, Professor at the Department of Computer and Information...
From Schneier on Security
Assessing Terrorist Threats to Commercial Aviation
This article on airplane security says many of the same things I've been saying for years: Given the breadth and complexity of threats to commercial aviation,Wired...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF: Slight Increase in Ph.D.s in the Computer Sciences;CS Experienced
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is out with a brief overview of the
From Schneier on Security
Iranians Capture U.S. Drone
Iran has captured a U.S. surveillance drone. No one is sure how it happened. Looking at the pictures of the drone, it wasn't shot down and it didn't crash. The...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Year Up Visits the MTC
Last Friday the Microsoft Technology Center in Waltham MA was pleased to again host a group from Year Up Rhode Island. I again gave a career talk. Unlike last time...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Intelligent Social Dashboard
Addresses the sharepocalypse. I am confused, both before and after the private introduction of 'Bottlenose', but it may be worth examination: " It's hard enough...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Personalized Style
Personalized Style site:P&G Beauty & Grooming announced the launch of StyleUnited (www.styleunited.com), the first truly personalized site that brings beauty and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Exploring Your Blindspot
A free E-Book. Well, more like a pamphlet. About human vision blind spots. This is a frequent topic in psych classes. We do not see everything in front of...
From The Eponymous Pickle