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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 Eponymous Pickle
Simple Games for E-Learning
I have been looking at the process of adding simple games to E-learning to promote engagement. At the recent Lectora conference I saw a presentation by Benjamin...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
You cannot refuse to publish our paper because
I feel strongly that the convention peer review process needs to evolve to a publish-then-filter model. That is, I do not believe that a few select individuals...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Reminder: Deadline for 2011-12 CIFellows Now 2 Weeks Away
A reminder that the deadline for applications to the 2011-12 Computing Innovation Fellows (CIFellows) Project is 5pm EDT on Tuesday, May 31. Graduates awarded the...
From Putting People First
Why a hyper-personalized Web is bad for you
Eli Pariser, executive director of the progressive political action committee MoveOn.org, explains in a CNET interview why he thinks we should beware of the substantial...
From Michael Nielsen
Notes on expander graphs now on GitHub
Several years ago I wrote a set of introductory notes (pdf) about expander graphs, an exceptionally useful concept from computer science. I’m a long way from being...
From Putting People First
Tapping into smart health
Growing numbers of mobile applications are aimed at keeping patients engaged in their treatment. The Boston Globe reports. “Patient engagement, doctors say, is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cray and Sandia Institute for Knowledge Systems
Cray and Sandia have established a Supercomputing Institute for Learning and Knowledge Systems . Press Release. From Mark Montgomery of KYield. " ... Located...
From Wild WebMink
? Software freedom and the cloud
Cloud computing is not just disruptive to the software market; it’s also disruptive to software freedom advocacy. Software freedom has been defined as being present...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Design Lessons from the Bottom of the Pyramid
From the Harvard Blogs: Design Lessons from the Bottom of the Consumer Pyramid. " ... At the BOP, affordability is necessary but not sufficient. Tastes and aspirations...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stop Typing, Start Shouting
ShoutOMatic. A kind of audio twitter. " ... Think of each shout as an audible status update. In between some of your regular 'text' tweets and status updates...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Open Source Tag Generation
A number of solutions to the problem, imperfect, but useful. The methods I have tried in the past have not worked well.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Always Mount A Scratch Monkey
Do today
From Schneier on Security
Fingerprint Scanner that Works at a Distance
Scanning fingerprints from six feet away. Slightly smaller than a square tissue box, AIRprint houses two 1.3 megapixel cameras and a source of polarized light....
From My Biased Coin
Daily Updates
Getting slowly back into blogging, some happenings from the day.I've gotten a couple of nice notes from students saying they learned a lot from my class this semester...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sharing Data Corrupts Wisdom of Crowds
Some experiments are showing that sharing information makes a knowledge pool less diverse and leads to worse results. In a test we saw something similar, but we...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Time-saving versus work-inducing software
At a glance, office software like Word, PowerPoint or Excel, are great time savers. Nobody would want to go back to the era before Word Processors? Unfortunately...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
CS&IT and Summertime PD
The flowers are blooming (finally) here in Massachusetts so spring has indeed arrived, which means, summer is not too far away. Some of us think, can it get here...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM