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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
The Nemim.gen Trojan
This clever piece of malware evades forensic examination by deleting its own components.
From My Biased Coin
Congratulations to Mark Bun and Justin Thaler
Luca Aceto reported the paper awards for ICALP 2013. But I find it necessary to give a special shout-out to Harvard Ph.D. students Mark Bun and Justin Thaler,Dual...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Wireless Health 2013 Calling for Papers, Abstracts and Research Demonstrations
The Wireless-Life Sciences Alliance is hosting it’s fourth annual Wireless Health conference on November 1-3, 2013 at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Remembering Secrets
In Wired: A discussion of the recording of your secrets in the Siri concierge system. And questioning how long these communications are being held. What are...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Google Fellowship Opportunity for Up to 20 CS Teachers
For the past 3-4 months, Google has been working on a program that focuses on diversity and CS pipeline. They will be starting up a program to increase opportunities...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Held Hostage
From Stephen Few. He makes some good points about the Big Data craze:" ... The Big Data marketing campaign distracts us from our greatest opportunities involving...
From Wild WebMink
Taking MariaDB Foundation Forward
I’m pleased to tell you that I have a new role that I’ve already started within the scope of Meshed Insights. It’s a new and exciting departure for me. I’ve remained...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Metaio makes Hardware
Well known German Augmented reality company Metaio opens a hardware innovation and development facility in Dallas:Metaio Opens New Office to Ramp up Augmented...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Cautionary Data Tale
Colleague Wim Vandevelde from Brussels passes along this note and link, make sure you have your models straight:" ... How biased selection and pre-processing of...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Fear of Being Boring
I recently came across Shawn Cornally‘s blog titled ThinkThankThunk and noticed that the subtitle is “Dealing with the fear of being a boring teacher.” That is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Applied Visual Analytics
Attended the Tableau Software's roadshow this morning to get an overview of Tableau 8. Nicely done update, especially with the ability to do more complex operations...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Are Parents Supporters or a Challenge for Computer Science in K-12?
As a K-12 Computer science teacher I am often presented with different challenges and they all vary depending on the grade level. Most of the time when we think...
From Putting People First
CGAP CEO: Human-centered design for the Base of the Pyramid
Tilman Ehrbeck, CEO of CGAP (the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor, affiliated with the Worldbank), writes about how his organization has used human-centered...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The irony of “we are the 99 percent”
David Graeber is credited (by himself) as the true organizer of the Occupy Wall Street movement, a widely reported month-long demonstration against capitalism....
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
BIG Projects
I’ve been trying some different things this year. One experiment was to assign my C# students (this is a second programming course for most of them) to modify a...
From Computational Complexity
The Golden Ticket
Today is the official publication date of my first book The Golden Ticket: P, NP and the Search for the Impossible by Princeton University Press, though the book...
From The Eponymous Pickle
UC Analytics Summit 2013
" ... Analytics Summit 2013 will be held on May 31, 8:15AM-5:00PM at the University of Cincinnati. Analytics Summit 2013 is the premiere analytics event of the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Morphological Analysis for Wicked Problem Solving
A morphology is a set of structures that are used to define a category. It is often used in one of my interest areas: Botany. See the image on the right, where...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Measuring Advertising
From the Penn Customer Analytics Initiative: Innovative Approaches to Measuring Advertising Effectivness. Includes some of my favorite topics, like emotional response...
From The Eponymous Pickle