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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 My Biased Coin
Lisa Randall on the Daily Show
Last night's Daily Show (link to full episode) was on fire.The first segment was focused on SCIENCE! The part with Aasaf Mandvi was simultaneously hysterical and...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Preaching to the STEM Choir
This week I received an announcement about yet another
From Schneier on Security
The Security of SSL
EFF reports on the security of SSL: The most interesting entry in that table is the "CA compromise" one, because those are incidents that could affect any or every...
From Wild WebMink
? Liberty and Vigilance
In the Place de la Bastille in Paris, this statue stands at the top of a column commemorating the citizens of France who took up arms to finally rid themselves...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Is College Worth the Investment?
Wharton discusses this. Hardly an objective party, but the thoughts are interesting. I have been confronted with this topic recently. I was brought up in a world...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bored in Space
You would not think it was possible. To be bored while in space, with all the tasks to do and the stars and earth to look at. But apparently it is, and games...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hadoop and IBM do Big Data in the Cloud
I have just started to look at Hadoop, which " ... enables applications to work with thousands of nodes and petabytes of data. Hadoop was inspired byGoogle'sIBM...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Kinect-ing at the NJSBA Annual Workshop
Normally the conferences I attend are about educational technology or computer science education. Events like ISTE, MASSCue, TCEA, SIGCSE or CSTA
From My Biased Coin
Students are Awesome(ly Productive Right Now)
What's the use of a blog if you can't brag about your students? And my students have all been doing great stuff, so I'm excited to let others know about theirarxiv...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Launching Ketchup on Facebook
For their most avid fans, Heinz is launching some new flavors of Ketchup on Facebook. An interesting example or relatively low involvement products. But they...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
It Is Not Where You Work, But Who You Work With
It is widely believed that intellectual productivity is tied to location. That is, if you work in a basement at Harvard like Walter Bishop in the TV show Fringe...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Short History of the Web at Work
How the web has powered work for 20 years. A brief view of the history and its implications. It seems like it has been much longer. What is next?
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
International S&E Visualization Challenge: Vote Before Friday
Back in February, we noted that the National Science Foundation and Science
From Schneier on Security
Cracking the Copiale Cipher
I don't follow historical cryptography, so all of this comes as a surprise to me. But something called the Copiale Cipher from the 18th Century has been cracked...
From Putting People First
Energy consumption in the home
The Danish Alexandra Institute (see also previous post) published in 2009 an anthropological user study of needs, motivations and barriers in relation to energy...
From Schneier on Security
Demands from Law Enforcement for Google Data
Google releases statistics: Google received more than 15,600 requests in the January-June period, 10 percent more than the final six months of last year. The requests...
From Putting People First
The Internet of Things comic book
The Danish Alexandra Institute has just released a comic book called “Inspiring the Internet of Things,” which explains the benefits of networking everyday objects...
From The Eponymous Pickle