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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 Putting People First
Small, local, open and connected: resilient systems and sustainable qualities
How do we design a resilient socio-technical system, asks Ezio Manzini in Design Observer. “Let’s look to natural systems; their tolerance of breakdowns and their...
From Putting People First
Book: Orchestrating Human-Centered Design
Orchestrating Human-Centered Design Guy Boy Springer, 2013 The time has come to move into a more humanistic approach of technology and to understand where our world...
From Putting People First
Recent studies on the impact of tablet use in schools – an overview
2012 One-to-one Tablets in Secondary Schools: An Evaluation Study (see also here and here) Dr Barbie Clarke and Siv Svanaes, Family Kids and Youth, UK, 2012 Research...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Swapping Values The Tricky Way
Last week my friend Tom Indelicato who talking to his Advanced Placement Computer Science students about sorting. As is necessary this involved talking about how...
From Putting People First
Study on the introduction of iPads in UK secondary school
Naace, the UK’s educational ICT association, published a report last year (July 2012), entitled “The iPad as a Tool for Education – A study on the introduction...
From Geeking with Greg
Quick links
It's been a while since I did a Quick Links post, so there's a lot to cover. Here's the latest of what has caught my attention: First Netflix wanted to be Blockbuster...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Junaio Augmented Reality on the Second Screen
Recently received and of interest. Adding Augmented reality information to the TV screen. I hope to watch this. Note that the TV show is in German. Will attempt...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM PureSystems
Had cause to take a look at applications that could do pattern recognition and was pointed to IBM PureSystems, mentioned here. " ... With the new PureSystemsCheck...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Disruption and Engagement Relevance
In Adage: Digital Disruption Can Make TV Ads More, Not Less, RelevantHow An Era of Direct Relationships Will Give New Life to TV Ads By: James McQuivey of Forrester...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Abolish the Patent System
Two economists argue in this paper that the patent system should be eliminated. I agree, most of what I have seen in that system system has been garbage, and just...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How fast should your dynamic arrays grow?
When programming in Java or C++, your arrays have fixed sizes. So if you have an array of 32 integers and you need an array with 33 integers, you may need to create...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics Skills
A fairly good list of things that are useful to be a successful analytics provider. Some of these are more generally good consulting skills. In particular, I emphasize...
From Schneier on Security
Why Is Quantum Computing So Hard?
Blog post (and two papers) by Ross Anderson and Robert Brady. News article.
From Michael Nielsen
The artist and the machine
In September of 2012, a team of scientists released a photograph showing the most distant parts of the Universe ever seen by any human being. They obtained the...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
It Is the Little Things That Count
Most of us look at advocacy from a larger perspective. We think of it in terms of Districts, States, National, etc and we sometimes forget it is the little things...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Presidential Innovation Fellows Program Accepting Applications
The White House is currently accepting applications for the second round of the Presidential Innovation Fellows (PIF) program. The program pairs top innovators...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fitness Gamification
Again, what would appear to be an ideal application to embody in an engaging game. And with an App to be taken anywhere. And gather data. Wharton discussesFrom...
From Schneier on Security
New York Times Hacked by China
This was big news last week, and I spent a lot of time doing press interviews about it. But while it is an important story -- hacking a newspaper, looking forGhostNet...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The Focus (Finding Outstanding Classrooms Using Social media)
The Focus (Finding Outstanding Classrooms Using Social media) is an online video show started by Don Wettrick to showcase GREAT teachers and students. I thought...
From My Biased Coin