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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 Computing Community Consortium Blog
New Nanotechnology Strategy Touts Big Data, Modeling
During a webinar earlier this afternoon, the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) — spanning 25 Federal agencies engaged in nanotechnology research –
From Putting People First
Philips launches
Today Philips presented its latest forward looking design project
From The Eponymous Pickle
Beating Humans
Wired: A Lego NXT and a smart phone beat a human in solving the Rubiks cube. Intelligence advances.
From My Biased Coin
An Apple a Day
Reviewing papers for a conference is a slow, time-consuming process. Suppose you had 20 reviews due and about 4 weeks to do them. What's your approach?I take...
From Schneier on Security
Random Passwords in the Wild
Interesting analysis: the hacktivist group Anonymous hacked into several BART servers. They leaked part of a database of users from myBART, a website which provides...
From Putting People First
Metamemory and the user experience
When people expect to be able to access information in the future, they tend to have reduced memory for the actual information, but enhanced memory for where to...
From Putting People First
Cadillac User Experience (CUE)
Last week, Cadillac launched its new “CUE” vehicle infotainment system. The name is an acronym that stands for Cadillac User Experience
From Putting People First
The psychology of UX
When UX designer Vanessa Carey read Susan Weinschenk’s article “The Psychologist’s View of UX Design” (published in UXMag last year), she decided to explore each...
From Wild WebMink
Should Justin Bieber Go To Jail?
If you found my article in ComputerWorldUK yesterday too long and/or complicated, this cmpaign web site is the perfect alternative: Free Justin Bieber.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Illustrating the Role of Fundamental Computing Research
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Deputy Director Tom Kalil and Senior Advisor Kumar Garg have highlighted the role of fundamental computing...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Motivating Students and Teachers While Raising the Bar
During the past year, a good deal of my work time has revolved around revising our state Business, Finance, and IT Essential Standards. We have organized our standards...
From Schneier on Security
New Malware: Duqu
A newly discovered piece of malware, Duqu, seems to be a precursor to the next Stuxnet-like worm and uses some of the same techniques as the original.
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
What if you want a PhD but don't plan to do research after?
I was thinking the other day about the different reasons a person might want to get a PhD, and I wondered if those who weren't necessarily intending to be researchers...
From Computational Complexity
Theorems that are impressive at first but then....
Mission Impossible was my favorite show as a kid. As an adult it would not make my top 20, and I wonder why I liked it so much as a kid. (Actually I do know- at...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Interbot
Interbots’ consumer robot for autism therapy took the top prize last Thursday at the nation’s first-ever next-generation robotics venture competition. The event...
From Wild WebMink
On Ecclesiastes and Pornography
Filtering “pornography” without any way to define what it is can only harm our society, and seeing it proposed is yet another reminder that the “Ecclesiastes Principle”...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Imagine Cup as Group Projects
One of the things that often makes Imagine Cup entries a good educational experience is that they require planning and team work. A good Imagine Cup entry is seldom...
From The Eponymous Pickle