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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 The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF and NICT of Japan Announce Partnership in Next-Generation Networking
Yesterday the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) of Japan signed a memorandum of understanding...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Three questions about e-learning in college
Timothy Taylor observes that research about online instruction tells us that online teaching is just as effective as classroom teaching. The main drawback of asynchronous...
From Schneier on Security
Why We Lie
This, by Judge Kozinski, is from a Federal court ruling about false statements and First Amendment protection Saints may always tell the truth, but for mortals...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
White House Open Data Executive Order Echoes USACM Recommendations
In early May the White House issued an Executive Order outlining a policy to make open and machine readable the ‘default’ for new and ‘modernized’ government information...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Nanotechnology Careers
The career prospects look bright for CS graduates and according to the Kiplinger Management Group Letter there is an exciting reason for the news. Amazing new...
From Schneier on Security
Are We Finally Thinking Sensibly About Terrorism?
This article wonders if we are: Yet for pretty much the first time there has been a considerable amount of media commentary seeking to put terrorism in context...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
You Never Know Who The Computer Science People Are
Apparently Justine Bateman, yes Justine Bateman the actress who played superficial Mallory Keaton on Family Ties, has started a new role as a college freshmenGet...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Princesses, Dragons, and Assigning Numbers to Stories
I've been working on a prototype story for my thesis project ("Coherent Emergent Stories"). Although I have a couple of stories on the go (such as the one I made...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Devices Making Us Dumber
In CIOInsight: Sounds much like the argument being made not so long ago about the use of calculators and before that, slide rules. Were we being dumbed down...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brainwashed, the Overreach of Neuroscience
Just received, Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience by Sally Satel and Scott O. Lilienfeld I was interviewed for this book and read an...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Kenneth and Laurel Appel, In Memoriam
Mapping out the landscape of a proof composite of src1, src2 Kenneth and Laurel Appel, our friend Andrew Appel’s father and sister, passed away in the past two...
From Schneier on Security
Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Risk Perception
From his Facebook page: An illustration of how the news are largely created, bloated and magnified by journalists. I have been in Lebanon for the past 24h, and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Advice for Returning CEOs
Knowledge @ Wharton provides a history and analysis of returning CEOs, see my note on P&G's AG Lafley's return. Asking if the 'Gamble' will pay off. Instructive...
From Wild WebMink
Resurgent CDB
Reblogged from Meshed Insights & Knowledge: What does the Woolwich murder teach us about the need for the Communications Data Bill? Nothing at all; the security...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Whats New on Lafely's List
In AdAge: I liked the fact that his predecessor, Bob McDonald, seemed to be emphasizing the analytical in finding ways to improve business. Yet soon found that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics Summit this Friday
Last chance, this Friday .... contact numbers below ... I unfortunately will be out of town, but looks to be good." ... Analytics Summit 2013 will be held on May...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rise of Mobile Only
In a look at potential C suite users for business intelligence applications we quickly discovered a large number of users that are now mobile only. More thanThe...
From Computational Complexity
Theory Jobs 2013
Time for the annual spring jobs posts. Like last year, I set up a Google Spreadsheet that everyone can edit so we can crowd source who is going where next year....
From Schneier on Security