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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 Eponymous Pickle
Time Series Back Again
An article suggests that Time Series are Back. Not they have ever been gone. Used them every day in the enterprise. Yet as we gather more time stamped data...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Boredom Drives Creativity
In Fastcompany. Is boredom a key part of creativity? And do our new devices keep us from getting bored and thus stifle our creativity? I suggest that boredom...
From Schneier on Security
Last Battle of Midway Cryptanalyst
The last cryptanalyst at the Battle of Midway, Rear Admiral Donald "Mac" Showers, USN-Ret, passed away 19 October 2012. His interment at Arlington National Cemetery...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
House Intelligence Committee Tries Again With CISPA
On April 10 the House Intelligence Committee will review H.R. 624, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. The Committee approved an almost identical...
From My Biased Coin
Guest Post by Mikkel Thorup : Results vs. Techniques
[Mikkel Thorup graciously has offered a guest blog post, discussing what he looks for in conference papers, and possible implications for refereeing.] Results versus...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Design Advantages of Augmented Reality
Last fall, we published a paper about augmented reality, cognitive theories, and learning. One of the tasks of the work was to specifically define what the design...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robotics Week: Free Robotics App
IEEE Spectrum tells us that this week is Robotics week. In honor of that they are offering a free App that covers many aspects of Robotics research and application...
From Schneier on Security
Nice Security Mindset Example
A real-world one-way function: Alice and Bob procure the same edition of the white pages book for a particular town, say Cambridge. For each letter Alice wants...
From Wild WebMink
How to increase donations to an open source project
Reblogged from Ian Skerrett: Lots of open source projects raise money from their user communities by soliciting donations. Most open source projects will have...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Driven Programming
In Adage: An emerging era for data driven programming. Programming media, not programming computers. Not really new, we explored this for decades, optimizing...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The 2013 Data 2.0 Summit
The Data 2.0 Summit will be held in San Francisco at the end of the month (April 30th 2013). Some of the speakers might interest the readers of this blog. For example...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Symposium on Visions on the Theory of Computing
In conjunction with the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, we are pleased to announce that registration is now open for a Symposium on Visions on the...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Lecture, Demo, Project
Or perhaps hear, see, do? I was asked about my teaching last week. What would my ideal class period look like. It was as they say a thinker. What I have been trying...
From Schneier on Security
Bitcoins in the Mainstream Media
Interesting article from the New Yorker. I'm often asked what I think about bitcoins. I haven't analyzed the security, but what I have seen looks good. The real...
From Putting People First
Book: Service Design by Industrial Designers
Service Design by Industrial Designers By Froukje Sleeswijk Visser Technical University Delft 2013, 104 pages Design practice is changing. The applications of design...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Plan for Big Data
In McKinsey Quarterly: A good piece about planning for Big Data projects and value. The detailed article makes a considerable parallel to strategic planning...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
It's a Rosie the Riveter Moment!
Ayna Agarwal and Ellora Israni, Stanford University computer science students who refer to themselves as "good girls gone geek," are the founders of she++. She...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
We are sentenced to permanent cognitive stretching
If you want to get better at something, should remain in your comfort zone? Or should you, rather, be exposed to ideas or techniques slightly beyond your reach?...
From Schneier on Security
Elite Panic
I hadn't heard of this term before, but it's an interesting one. The excerpt below is from an interview with Rebecca Solnit, author of A Paradise Built in Hell...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog