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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
Tact
Early in the week, I was excited to find out that, apparently, it was perfectly appropriate for us professors to call (at least, already graduated) students assholes...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Sock Monkey and Michelle
Here is Sock Monkey with Michelle Hutton. Michelle is stepping into her new role as CSTA Past Chair after serving for two years as CSTA Chair (President). She will...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Sock Monkey and Michelle
Here is Sock Money with Michelle Hutton. After two years as CSTA President, Michelle is now moving into her new role as Past Chair. She will continue to sit on...
From The Eponymous Pickle
iPad University
USC tries to set up a complete University interface based on a tablet. I just saw the movie 'The Social Network', and apparently the players there just not think...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Games for Training
In a continuing project that looks at training using game dynamics, I was reminded of the MS effort called Ribbon Hero, which aims to provide incentive to learn...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Computing and Cultural Modeling
In the July /August 2011 IEEE Intelligent Systems. Emphasises Social Computing and Cultural Modeling. Just reviewing. Not all of the content of this publication is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G North American Planning Service Center
P&G Opens a new North American Planning Service Center in the Cincinnati area today. "The work involves planning the on-time delivery of millions of P&G products ...
From My Biased Coin
Beyond Worst Case Analysis -- Preparing a Talk
A few months ago, Tim Roughgarden mailed me to say was putting together a little workshop on the theme of Beyond Worst Case Analysis, and would I like to be one...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Describing Computing Research Challenges
In the past year, we’ve developed a set of brochures describing fundamental computing research challenges in a few areas of national priority, including healthcare...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What does it mean?
Last week I had the chance to hear Douglas Rushkoff talk at the annual CSTA CS&IT Symposium. All of the conference attendees were also given a copy of his book ...
From Wild WebMink
? Heading West To SFO
Heading West To SFO, a set on Flickr. A delightfully clear afternoon flying across Nevada to San Francisco allowed me to take some splendid photographs. Check out...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
What the Internet wants me to read (summer 2011)
Last week, I asked on Twitter, Facebook and Google Plus what I should read over the summer. Here is a quick summary of the recommendations I got: On Twitter: A...
From The Eponymous Pickle
An Overview of Business Intelligence (BI) Technology
In CACM: A very good definition and overview of BI. In my own conversations with executives and other decision makers, I have seen considerable confusion in this...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Does G+ Mean for Search Marketing?
Very detailed and interesting look at the apparent behind the scene motives for Google's jumping into Social. And this point, apparently successfully so ... "...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kyield and In Memory Databases
Mark Montgomery of KYield writes about HANA and KYield for better outcomes. (HANA is a high performance in-memory database product from SAP. )" ... Data Speed...
From Wild WebMink
? Pie Charts In The Plains
Pie Charts In The Plains, a set on Flickr. Flying from Chicago to San Francisco today I was struck by the fact that there were bar charts, pie charts and many...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
PCAST Discusses Future of Scientific Research
In a public session last Friday, the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) spent time discussing the future of scientific research in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Computable Document Format
Wolfram Research announces a new document called the CDF. In an intriguing development the new document, is computable. I like the general idea. There were...
From The Eponymous Pickle