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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 Schneier on Security
Preventing Cell Phone Theft through Benefit Denial
Adding a remote kill switch to cell phones would deter theft. Here we can see how the rise of the surveillance state permeates everything about computer security...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
A Retrospective Report of the Simons Institute Visions on The Theory of Computing Symposium
The following is a special contribution to this blog from Christos Papadimitriou, C. Lester Hogan Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Teacher for a Year!
It's finally official: I get to teach for a year!Teach Your Heart Out / Krissy.Venosdale I've had this post bottled up for a while now, waiting for the papers to...
From Wild WebMink
IRS Blocks Open Source Non-Profit Status
Open source Foundations have a great track record for good governance of open source projects – think of the Apache Software Foundation, the Document Foundation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Emotions Based on Brain Activity
Out of Carnegie Mellon, new research about how brain activities link to emotions. Further research into nonconscious activity of the brain. Depends strongly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Research Tracks Phone Mood
A fairly detailed article on work MS is doing to track the mood of people using a smartphone. Called MoodScope. Of interest to enterprises that would like another...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Future of Autonomous Vehicles
Another good example of time forward looking search. From a company I have followed for some time: Recorded Future. Good understanding of possible futures has...
From The Eponymous Pickle
MOOC in Progress
Good examples of the MOOC educational process in progress. Will this be our future education process? How will it be layered with more traditional methods? Efficiencies...
From Schneier on Security
Malware that Foils Two-Factor Authentication
This is an interesting article about a new breed of malware that also hijack's the victim's phone text messaging system, to intercept one-time passwords sent via...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CS Educator Interview: Kathleen Weaver
For the second in my series of blog interviews with computer science educators I present Kathleen Weaver from Hillcrest High School in Dallas Texas. Texas is a...
From The Eponymous Pickle
GS1 Standards Page
GS1's newly redesigned Standards Page. With loads of information on the management of standards in many domains. " ... GS1 develops global standards using the...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Science Education Act (CSEA)
This looks like a very good piece of legislation. The basic idea is not to create new programs or additional spending but to reduce barriers to creating more computer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Top 5 R Packages
An instructive survey by a data scientist of how they use packages in R, the open source statistics, graphics and modeling environment. (analytics productivity)...
From Schneier on Security
Pre-9/11 NSA Thinking
This quote is from the Spring 1997 issue of CRYPTOLOG, the internal NSA newsletter. The writer is William J. Black, Jr., the Director's Special Assistant for Information...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Specializing in the Visually Impossible
In our innovation center we featured a number of technologies to engage with the consumer in retail. Digital signage was a common application. We invited companies...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Display as a Service
More on Intel's wireless display aggregating system, dubbed DaaS, or Display as a Service. A friend who knows this space well cautions me that the effort is from...
From Computational Complexity
Friends Don't Let Friends Carpool
The AAA foundation measured cognitive distraction while driving and reported that having a passenger in the car is as dangerous as using a cell phone. On a scale...
From Schneier on Security
Lessons from Biological Security
Nice essay: The biological world is also open source in the sense that threats are always present, largely unpredictable, and always changing. Because of this,...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CS Educator Interview: Garth Flint
One of my summer projects is to collect stories from different computer science teachers. There are many teachers in many types of schools and many of them often...
From The Eponymous Pickle