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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
American Computer Science League (ACSL)
This was posted to the CSTA announcement list. I don’t have first hand experience but I hear good things. Computer contests for high school students are available...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented Pixels Reality Hoops Game
This continues my conversations with developers in the Augmented reality space. Here with the Ukranian firm Augmented Pixels. A new free game developed and then...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shifting Urban Landscape Report
Most interesting and timely report from McKinsey: Urban world: The shifting global business landscape. With lots of interesting graphics and statistics." ... Emerging...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Scientist Code of Professional Conduct
I still have my doubts over the longevity of the term 'Data Scientist', and now they are creating a professional society and a code of conduct." ... Data Scientists...
From Schneier on Security
Silk Road Author Arrested Due to Bad Operational Security
Details of how the FBI found the administrator of Silk Road, a popular black market e-commerce site. Despite the elaborate technical underpinnings, however, the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alex Sopko Now Writing for the Washington Times
Have always been a journalist at heart. There are useful news stories lined up in my head waiting to emerge. I particularly love to see examples of how young"...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
What Are You Doing for Hour of Code?
That was the question I was asked in an email from a colleague who teaches in a neighboring district. I had thought about it but not in depth. It had been mentioned...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Health Care Innovation
HBR establishes a health care innovation center site. " ... Leading Health Care Innovation, a collaboration of the editors of the Harvard Business Review and...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Computational Art Using Processing for CS0 / GHC13
I love the curriculum that Zoe Wood and Julie Workman created for their school's CS0 course and that they spoke about at GHC13. It uses Processing, like the CS1...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies Hears from USACM
In light of the leaks surrounding U.S. national intelligence surveillance efforts, President Obama appointed a group to review those programs to determine if they...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Effectiveness of Analytics
A good piece on the problem. But ultimately it is ROI that talks. And making sure that decision makers get the word of what is happening. Before, during and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Consumer Products and Robotics
Consumer products taking cues from robotics. We did this early on. But the economics ultimately did not make sense. " ... Smart thermostats, drones and other...
From Computational Complexity
P vs NP is Elementary? No-- P vs NP is ON Elementary
As I am sure you all know, the TV show Elementary (Premise- Sherlock Homes in Modern Day NY. He emails and Texts! Watson is a female! and...) had an episode that...
From Schneier on Security
How the NSA Attacks Tor/Firefox Users With QUANTUM and FOXACID
The online anonymity network Tor is a high-priority target for the National Security Agency. The work of attacking Tor is done by the NSA's application vulnerabilities...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 7 October 2013
I’m staring off today with two other sets of links. Some good resource lists created by some friends of mine. Joe Kmoch has a great list of CS and IT educational...
From CERIAS Blog
Happy Anniversary—Bang My Head Against A Wall
Over the last month or two I have received several invitations to go speak about cyber security. Perhaps the up-tick in invitations is because of the allegations...
From CERIAS Blog
Happy Anniversary—Bang My Head Against A Wall
Over the last month or two I have received several invitations to go speak about cyber security. Perhaps the up-tick in invitations is because of the allegations...
From CERIAS Blog
Happy Anniversary—Bang My Head Against A Wall
Over the last month or two I have received several invitations to go speak about cyber security. Perhaps the up-tick in invitations is because of the allegations...
From CERIAS Blog
Happy Anniversary—Bang My Head Against A Wall
Over the last month or two I have received several invitations to go speak about cyber security. Perhaps the up-tick in invitations is because of the allegations...
From The Eponymous Pickle