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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 Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Accessibility and Computer Science
My first real knowledge of differently abled people using computers came about 35 years ago when I was in college. There was a recent graduate of the college who...
From Michael Nielsen
Cameron Neylon on Practical Steps Toward Open Science
Cameron Neylon is a scientist at the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council, an open notebook scientist, and one of the most thoughtful advocates of open...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Book Review: Hamlet's Blackberry
Just completed the recently released: Hamlet's BlackBerry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age by William Powers. The link includes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Eye Tracking is Changing the Web
Good intro piece in ReadWriteWeb. Not only about tracking in a passive sense to see where people are looking, but also as a means to interact with the web. Have...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
P != NP ?
The internet is abuzz with stories about a purported proof that the class P is not equal to the class NP.
From Schneier on Security
P ? NP?
There's a new paper circulating that claims to prove that P ? NP. The paper has not been refereed, and I haven't seen any independent verifications or refutations...
From The Eponymous Pickle
I-Room Virtual Space for Interaction
In the current IEEE Computer Intelligence Systems. An overview of a collaborative space to support sensory decisions. Quite interesting because it includes thein...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Why I Never Learned Scientific Experimentation in High School
Every lab report was the same. We started off by copying down the hypothesis written in the text book or lab assignment, listed the equipment used, wrote out the...
From Wild WebMink
? Free UK Tracks
Here are links to three of the free tracks I’ve found on Amazon UK over the last week (you have to be in the UK to download these). The best is probably the dark...
From Computational Complexity
That P ne NP proof- whats up with that?
Let me be he last on the block to tell you that an alleged proof of P ≠ NP is out there. NOT posting on it would be absurd; however, I cannot do any better than...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Eyeballs Out
I just read the preprint of colleague Donna Sturgess' new book: Eyeballs Out: How To Step Into Another World, Discover New Ideas, and Make Your Business Thrive....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Branded Storytelling Online
Storytelling should work. yes, but it does depend on the story. AdAge presents a number of case studies that worked, and others that did not. An instrutive set...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Saffron Technologies Overview
A good explanatory post on associative memory vendor Saffron Technology ... which I have followed for some time. Will continue to track this impressive effort.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How to get everyone talking about your research!
Deolalikar claims to have solved the famous P versus NP problem.
From Schneier on Security
Ant Warfare
Interesting: According to Moffett, we might actually learn a thing or two from how ants wage war. For one, ant armies operate with precise organization despite...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-08-09
Copyright assignment – Once bitten, twice shy Excellent and thorough article about copyright assignment. If you are involved in the current, Canonical-sponsored...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 9 August 2010
What a week. My son was married a week ago. I picked him and his bride up from their honeymoon last night. In between I took a trip to Texas for a Microsoft conference...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Teaching Style Does Matter
I recently read a really interesting article on interactive teaching in computer science by . The article, appearing in ACM Inroads (Vol. 1. No. 2) was interesting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Can you Bulletize that?
This is fairly old, but I was reminded of it by a colleague: Some Problems in the world are not Bullet-izable. And Tufte's classic comments on the subject.
From My Biased Coin