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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
CS Educator Interview: Peter Beens
Back to Canada for our interview today. Peter Beens teaches at Beamsville District Secondary School in a small town in Ontario. Peter is very active online buthere...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Necessity of Encryption
In CIO Insight: A good overview of the reasons for using encryption with personal data. The legal risks involved and current status of state laws in this area.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predicting Hiring Success
From Fast Company: Every company wants to avoid expensive mistakes. New methods of analytics with more data is leading to making better hiring choices " ... An...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Robotics and Jobs, mutually beneficial
Chris Isidore of CNN Money, wrote on July 29 about Amazon’s announcement to hire 7,000 new employees, 5,000 of which are for their nationwide distribution centers...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
The Week Ahead: Congress to Hold Hearings on Copyright and Patents
Four hearings on Capitol Hill this week will focus on intellectual property issues related to cellphone unlocking, standard essential patents, copyright, and cross...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of July 29
July 30 Markup: The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee will review pending legislation. Scheduled for consideration is a new cybersecurity bill...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Complimentary Webinar on Today's Marketing Strategies
Of interest. by the SNCR which I worked with since its founding. I plan to attend.Complimentary Webinar CMO 2.0: Marketing Strategies for Dealing with Today’s...
From Computational Complexity
Certifying primality in a CONSTANT number of operations
For this post I will only count the operations PLUS, MINUS, MULT. They may be done on rather large numbers. Recall that from the work coming out of Hilberts 10th...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Brenda Romero at G4C13: The Games Need to Change
In the games for change movement, what needs to change? Brenda Romero, designer in residence at UC Santa Cruz, thinks it's the games.In her Games for Change 2013...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile Devices and Cybercrime
And more In Knowledge@Wharton on Mobile devices and crime. Here in much more detail about the implications of mobile to cybercrime. Your phone may be your weakest...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Communications of the ACM
The ACM is the premier computing association in the US. It's the only major technical group that I have remained a member of for many years. This blog is mirrored...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smartphones Attract Crime
In AdAge: Always thought that smartphones decreased crime by adding a new element of crowdsourced communications to inform authorities. But it turns out that...
From Schneier on Security
Obama's Continuing War Against Leakers
The Obama Administration has a comprehensive "insider threat" program to detect leakers from within government. This is pre-Snowden. Not surprisingly, the combination...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 29 July 2013
Short week last week as my wife and I headed down to Walt Disney World for a bit of actual real vacation. That doesn’t mean I didn’t collect a good batch of links...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blended Realities: Glass and Printers
I like the idea of blending emergent technologies. Here the sensory absorption of Google Glass and the realization capability of 3D Printing. " .... It was great...
From My Biased Coin
In Sickness...
One of the more amusing conversations at the social part of the Microsoft faculty summit (initiated by the humorous commentary of Kevin Leyton-Brown) started with...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sales Force Motivation
Using Gamification dynamics at Ford Canada. Sales teams, which by their nature are already competitive, are a natural place to insert gaming methods that enhance...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented Reality as Maintenance Tool
Via Junaio. Work on using augmented reality as an after service maintenance delivery tool for Bosch. Maintenance enhancement in manufacturing was also an area...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Secure Stealth Clouds
In GigaOM: Amazon battles IBM to build a stealth cloud for the CIA. Is this, as the article suggests, a battle for the soul of the future Information Technology...
From Apophenia