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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
Phishing Has Gotten Very Good
This isn't phishing; it's not even spear phishing. It's laser-guided precision phishing: One of the leaked diplomatic cables referred to one attack via emailwrote...
From Putting People First
The Google Glass feature no one is talking about
The Google Glass feature that (almost) no one is talking about is the experience – not of the user, but of everyone other than the user, writes Mark Hurst in a...
From Putting People First
In a world of connected devices, focus on what they do
Stacey Higginbotham reports on a the GigaOM Internet of things meetup in San Francisco a few days ago: “All of the participants agreed that the connected device...
From The Eponymous Pickle
3D Desktops
More from TED: The next logical step in interface? Or does this go a dimension too far? Even a real desktop is flattened, unless you are dealing with 3D architectural...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Txt Speak as Linguistic Miracle
Ars Technica on a TED Talk. I am still skeptical that our languages will evolve into a simpler, acronym ridden shortening of tokens and meme pointers. The article...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Naked Statistics
Part of my role long ago was to explain analytics to executives. That included many things, from analytical methods, predictive systems to statistics. So I was...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
What We're Not Doing to Tackle the Women in Tech Issue
Venture Beat recently ran an article about tackling tech's gender problem the right way (according to them, by teaching women to code). Part of the article discusses...
From Schneier on Security
The Court of Public Opinion
Recently, Elon Musk and the New York Times took to Twitter and the Internet to argue the data -- and their grievances -- over a failed road test and car review....
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Sponsored Workshop on Extreme Scale Design Automation (ESDA)
The following is a special contribution to this blog from Patrick H. Madden, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Binghamton University. In this blog entry...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Marketing Analytics
An interesting set of examples, from GE and others: " ... Offloading content development has allowed the company to develop an overarching social media strategy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Revolutionizing Disease Treatment
Via a social network. Noted in the CACM: Relates to some of my own writings on health care networks, " ... The social network PatientsLikeMe plans to build...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Online Grocery Shopping
Interesting connections that are driving the increasing use of online for grocery shopping. " ... According to a Hartman Group report, 18% of households purchased...
From Putting People First
How teachers are using technology at home and in their classrooms
A survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project of teachers who instruct American middle and secondary school students finds that digital technologies have...
From Putting People First
Future Imperfect: Evgeny Morozov vs. Steven Johnson
A couple of weeks ago Evgeny Morozov and Steven Johnson had a very public spat (writers’ favorite kind), prompted by Evgeny’s review of Johnson’s latest book in...
From Putting People First
On legitimacy, place and the anthropology of the Internet
In this thoughtful piece for Ethnography Matters, Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) discusses the ways in which the internet has transformed the relationship between...
From Putting People First
Computer interfaces: tech’s next great frontier
Since the invention of personal computing three decades ago, how we interact with computers has remained about the same: monitor, keyboard, mouse. Monitors have...
From Computational Complexity
Our Government at Work
Barring a surprise deal, the sequester goes into effect tomorrow. NSF Director (and soon to be CMU President) Subra Suresh announced a sequestration impact statement...
From Schneier on Security
Brazen Physical Thefts
Three brazen robberies are in the news this week. The first was a theft at a small museum of gold nuggets worth $750,000: Police said the daring heist happened...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Your ideas needed: Coding is to computer science as X is to Y
Yesterday we posted a link to a terrific new video by code.org extolling the virtues of learning to program. Despite the “learn to code” rhetoric, code.org is really...
From Computer Science Teachers Association