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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
We Need a Grant Program for Teachers to Attend the CSTA Conference
I had a thought spawned by a comment on a recent blog post and some conversations I have had recently. I wish there was a grant program to give attendance funding...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Changing the World One Step at a Time: Introducing CS in the Middle School
I've taught middle school for fifteen years. Every year, after the students have graduated and moved on to high school, most of them return to thank me. Normally...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Why One PhD Student in Psychology Learned Python
I posted a few testimonials about why arts and social science needs code last week. I have a new one from a PhD student in psychology here at Carleton, and since...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Internet of Things and Ubiquitous Sensing
In Computing Now: Mentions my colleague and IOT pioneer Kevin Ashton. Start of a series that will address many of the aspects and issues in the Internet of Things...
From Putting People First
Teens in the digital age
Two talks on teens in the digital age: The App Generation: identity, intimacy and imagination in the digital era (video – 21:18) Talk at The RSA, London, UK – October...
From Schneier on Security
How to Avoid Getting Arrested
The tips are more psychological than security.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The Problem With i
I had an interesting problem from a student the other day. He was working his way though an array in a couple of places and one of them was doing something wrong...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wearables Reshaping the Enterprise
In ComputerWorld: Interesting questions are raised here. " ... Wearables will reshape the way enterprises work ... And enterprises could be the real growth....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Auction Technology
Have now been involved in several projects that dealt with auction technology and related decision and classification methods. Both for supply side material acquisition...
From Computational Complexity
The New Patrons
A few centuries ago if you wanted to do science and not independently wealthy you needed help. Most of the important astronomers and natural philosophers (as well...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Positive Human Emotion
In The Edge: We looked at emotion as a signal for understanding how people reacted to product, marketing interaction and use. As part of our 'cognitive council'...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Delivers Costco
In Wired: A competitive action with Amazon for the Holidays. Another example of supply chain players connecting directly to the consumer ..." Google’s stated aim...
From Apophenia
Upcoming Email Sabbatical: December 13-January 10
It’s about that time of the year for me. The time when I escape from the digital world into the wilderness in order to refresh. As many of you know, I am a firm...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Global C-Suite Study
In the process of studying the IBM: Customer-activated Enterprise Insights from the Global C-suite Study ... Attending a conference call today about its findings...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reducing Customer Defections
In the HBS: On reducing customer defections. A classic case for quantitative analysis using classification methods. " ... Companies can't afford to lose hard...
From Putting People First
Talks and presentations from UX Australia
UX Australia 2013, a 4-day user experience design conference that took place in Melbourne at the end of August, has posted a lot of presentation slides and audio...
From Schneier on Security
Fokirtor
Fokirtor is a Linux Trojan that exfiltrates traffic by inserting it into SSH connections. It looks very well-designed and -constructed.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CSTA 2014 Board of Directors Nominations Open
Since this past summer I have been a member of the CSTA Board of Directors (thanks again to all of you who voted for me). It’s been an interesting and rewarding...
From Putting People First
[Book] Reputation Economics
Reputation Economics: Why Who You Know Is Worth More Than What You Have by Joshua Klein Palgrave Macmillan Publisher November 2013, 256 pages [Amazon link] Abstract...
From Putting People First