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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
Deadline for Proposals for CSTA Conference Approaching
The deadline for session and workshop proposals for the 2014 CSTA conference on K-12 computer science education is November 15, 2013. In addition to 3-hour workshops...
From Schneier on Security
Identifying Cell Phones Through Sensor Imperfections
There seems to be a bunch of research into uniquely identifying cell phones through unique analog characteristics of the various embedded sensors. These sortsSlashdot...
From Putting People First
What behavioral economics is not
Essay: The Nature of the BEast: What Behavioral Economics Is Not 10/16/13 Matthew Darling, Saugato Datta, and Sendhil Mullainathan People are complex; they defy...
From Putting People First
An obstacle to patient-centered care: poor supply systems
It is widely acknowledged that patients and their families should be deeply involved in the design of and decisions about the health care that the former receive...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Gym from IDEO
For a recent talk I had to research some of the work that IDEO did for P&G. I re-discovered this Bloomberg article about the design work that IDEO did to helpWayne...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Injecting Serious CS into a STEM Course
My school district has a STEM course in the high school that is meeting the district's computer science graduation requirement. That means that the STEM students...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Topology Mapping for Analytics
Seems Vincent Granville has been thinking similarly lately. See his article and code in Data Science Central: A little known component that should be part of...
From Schneier on Security
"A Court Order Is an Insider Attack"
Ed Felten makes a strong argument that a court order is exactly the same thing as an insider attack: To see why, consider two companies, which we'll call Lavabit...
From My Biased Coin
Simons Research Fellowships Post
Alistair Sinclair asked me to post a note about the Simons Research Fellowships positions at Berkeley. But since that's where Justin Thaler (my now-ex student)...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Toward Star Trek economics
Characters in the Star Trek universe often claim that their future Earth has abolished money. Everyone gets what he needs and nobody works for money. Unfortunately...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simple Model of Persuasion
In Neuroscience Marketing: " ... The Persuasion Slide™. In short, it’s a simple model for persuasion that encompasses a variety of conscious and non-conscious factors...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Career Technical Schools and Computer Science
Over the years I have gotten involved with a number of career technical schools in New England. Several in New Hampshire where I live and several in Massachusetts...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Slides from 'Coherent Emergent Stories in Video Games' / GHC13
I gave a talk at this year's Grace Hopper on what I've been working on for my thesis project:Coherent Emergent Stories in Video GamesCrafting satisfying narratives...
From The Eponymous Pickle
US Alternative Fueling Stations Visualization
A good interactive data visualization from Tableau. In their public gallery. This would have been useful for a study I did a few years ago on the effects on the...
From Schneier on Security
SecureDrop
SecureDrop is an open-source whistleblower support system, originally written by Aaron Swartz and now run by the Freedom of the Press Foundation. The first instance...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Economics of Advanced Analytics
Shu Schiller, correspondent and Wright State professor, will be giving a talk at the upcoming Teradata conference. Link below for more information about the1463...
From The Eponymous Pickle
DunnHumby Seeks to Invest in Cincinnati Startups
As they progress with their downtown US Headquarters facility:" ... Look for data analysis firm Dunnhumby’s new seed-stage venture fund to invest in CincinnatiPress...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Spreadsheet Day is Today
A correspondent reports that today is spreadsheet day. " ... in honour of the date that VisiCalc was first shipped, way back in 1979. ... " I used to teach Visicalc...
From Computational Complexity
2013 Fall Jobs Post
Time again for the annual fall jobs post. As always the best places to look for academic CS positions are the job sites at the CRA and the ACM. Also check out the...
From The Eponymous Pickle