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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 Teachers Association
What is Computer Science: Undergrad Perspective for High School Students
I get the pleasure of teaching a service-learning based course at the university each semester. Within this course, undergraduate students are trained to conduct...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
ACM Washington Update, Vol. 14.3 (May 6, 2010)
CONTENTS [1] Newsletter Highlights [2] Competes Act Reauthorization Gets Rolling [3] Open Government Plans Released and Guidance Issued on Social Networking [4]...
From My Biased Coin
Poll : Conference Acceptances
Consider your favorite conference(s). Do you think they're accepting too many papers, too few, or just right? (With SIGCOMM decisions out, STOC/EC/CCC coming...
From Computational Complexity
COLT and CCC no longer take papers in ...
The list of COLT papers are posted here. Carl Smith claimed that COLT was made possible because of THREE strands of learning theory coming together to form a...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Writing a To-Do List
On the effective use of a to-do list, in Fast Company.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Chrome is Still Here
I have been using the Google Chrome browser off and on since it has come out. Just recently I made it a standard book mark. It has improved consistently overOthers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Archiving Those Little Bits
Former P&Ger Kevin Roberts now Saatchi CEO on the Library of Congress Twitter archive. Via Richard James. Have written about this a few times, the permanent archive...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-05-06
What Does Facebook Publish About You? Use this handy and simple web page to get a full list of the stuff Facebook is making public about you. (tags: Facebook Privacy...
From Schneier on Security
Nobody Encrypts their Phone Calls
From the Forbes blog: In an annual report published Friday by the U.S. judicial system on the number of wiretaps it granted over the past year ..., the courts...
From The Noisy Channel
TunkRank Scores Added to FluidDB
For those keeping track of TunkRank, I encourage you to check out FluidDB, which just added TunkRank scores to its feature set. That lets you do cool things like...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Program me a story
I recently came across a blog post titled
From Putting People First
Ferrari F10 steering wheel is usability horror
Every year, Ferrari fields a team in the Formula One championship, and dumps around $400 million into developing and racing the car. So, says Cliff Kuang in Fast...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Getting Rid of Paper Receipts
Why have we not rid ourselves of paper receipts? In Storefrontbacktalk.
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Draft Internet Privacy Bill Released
Representative Rick Boucher, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet released a discussion draft of an internet privacy bill...
From The Noisy Channel
Google
I wish I could take even a gram of credit for this! I’m really proud of my colleagues for rolling out this new design that encourages and facilitates exploratory...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What do you need to know?
The Microsoft Job Blog recently has a two part interview study guide set of posts. In the second (Microsoft interview study guide: Part II of II) there was a long...
From Computational Complexity
Ralph Kramden: Your wait is over! 3D-TV is here!
(This was written before I saw Lance's post on gadgets. This post could be called an unintentional co-post. Is that a word? Now it is!) In The Honeymooners...
From Schneier on Security
Why Aren't There More Terrorist Attacks?
As the details of the Times Square car bomb attempt emerge in the wake of Faisal Shahzad's arrest Monday night, one thing has already been made clear: Terrorism...
From Putting People First