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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 Daniel Lemire's Blog
Should computer scientists run experiments?
Jeffrey Ullman, a famous computer science professor, published an essay pushing back about the need to run experiments in computer science. Apparently, some conference...
From The Eponymous Pickle
July/August 2013 Analytics Magazine
Always interesting Analytics magazine is worth following, here are the key articles, but there is much more there:Executive Edge: What Makes a Good Data Scientist...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hurdles to Analytics
Hurdles in pursuit of analytics. Mostly obvious, but good to review." .. Organizations are enticed with the potential benefits offered by data analytics, but many...
From The Eponymous Pickle
5th Screen and McCormick
I had mentioned a company we worked with in our innovation centers: 5th Screen. Had reason to look at some of the work they have done with McCormick spices ina...
From Schneier on Security
Musing on Secret Languages
This is really interesting. It starts by talking about a "cant" dictionary of 16th-century thieves' argot, and ends up talking about secret languages in general...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CS Educator Interview: Doug Bergman
Today’s interview is with Doug Bergman from Charleston SC. I first met Doug through the Microsoft Partners in Learning program. Listening to him has been influential...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Teaching IT Skills Online
Training online has been done for a long time, but now the emergence of MOOC (Massive, Open, Online Courses) has made it easier yet to deliver training with more...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Organ Donor Compensation
MJ Perry examines the case of the US, where organ donor compensation is illegal, and Australia, where it is not. For the case of human kidneys. The difference...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New DropBox
A future view of the intentions of Dropbox. " ... Dropbox wants to be your always-on hard drive, whether you’re using an iPad, an Android phone, or a PC. And....
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Improving Computer Science and Programming Education for Women Improves It for Everyone
We know that computing fields are gender imbalanced. While 57% of all undergraduate degrees in the United States were earned by women in 2009, women made up only...
From Schneier on Security
The Effectiveness of Privacy Audits
This study concludes that there is a benefit to forcing companies to undergo privacy audits: "The results show that there are empirical regularities consistent...
From The Eponymous Pickle
DARPA Robotics Challenge Results
In IEEE Spectrum: Very good piece on the challenge, its essential components and the results announced today. This is interesting too because it describes elemental...
From Schneier on Security
Another Perspective on the Value of Privacy
A philosophical perspective: But while Descartes's overall view has been rightly rejected, there is something profoundly right about the connection between privacy...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How Important Is The First CS Course?
I’ve been reading a lot from CS educators lately. Regular readers know I am running a series of interviews with teachers from all over. As I write this I have five...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Augmented Telescopes: Tellscopes
In Fast Company: A telescope called a Tellscope. A terrestial rather than a celestial scope, with elements of augmented reality. The article discusses the hardware...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
FCC Open Internet Advisory Committee Meeting on July 9
The FCC’s Open Internet Advisory Committee will meet tomorrow, Tuesday, July 9, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. EDT, to discuss issues related to its four working groups...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Garmin Heads up Display
Garmin has introduced a Heads up display interface (HUD) , to be placed on a car windshield, to be made available later this year. " ... The HUD is a small box...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Fast integer compression in Java
Last year, we published a fast C++ library to quickly compress and decompress arrays of integers. Out of habit, I ported it to Java and published it under the name...
From Schneier on Security
Big Data Surveillance Results in Bad Policy
Evgeny Morozov makes a point about surveillance and big data: it just looks for useful correlations without worrying about causes, and leads people to implement...
From The Eponymous Pickle