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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 My Biased Coin
Answers for Assignments?
One of the smarter students I've known at Harvard, who has been a Teaching Assistant for me the last two years (and who I'm hoping will be back again this year)...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Share Your PD Experiences
As every computer science teacher knows, professional development is critical to keeping our knowledge up to date, our teaching skills sharp, and reinforcing our...
From Putting People First
Hertz president on the future of mobility
A day after the announcement that the Avis Budget Group has agreed to acquire Zipcar, the world’s leading car sharing network, for approximately $500 million, Michel...
From Putting People First
Research on the impact of tablets in secondary schools
Two months ago I wrote about what was then one of the first qualitative studies on the impact of tablets in schools: “Carphone Warehouse (corporate site), a UK...
From Schneier on Security
Classifying a Shape
This is a great essay: Spheres are special shapes for nuclear weapons designers. Most nuclear weapons have, somewhere in them, that spheres-within-spheres arrangement...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Are CAPTCHAs a good idea?
A CAPTCHA is a small test used to distinguish human users from robots. They are popular as an anti-spam tool. Until a few months ago, I had an annoying CAPTCHA...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Scientists as Future CEOs
Are data scientist the model for future CEOs? Data science certainly needs the ability to search for new sources of income and efficiently delivering it. New...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Conquering Email
Something I have tried for to do this for years. Its especially tough when you deal with a number of disparate client systems. Have been unable to completely...
From Computational Complexity
Erdős and Turing
Only nine months separate the births of two very influential mathematicians, Paul Erdős and Alan Turing, whose centenaries we celebrate this year and last. That's...
From Schneier on Security
Apollo Robbins, Pickpocket
Fascianting story: "Come on," Jillette said. "Steal something from me." Again, Robbins begged off, but he offered to do a trick instead. He instructed Jillette...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Avoid Puzzles in Code
I keep seeing a lot of order of operations “puzzles” in my Facebook stream. The most recent one was 6/2*(1+2) = ? or A lot of people got it wrong. As you might...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Reflecting on 2012
The new year (2013) is here. So, it is time to reflect on what I have done and seen in 2012. As a researcher, one of the most interesting innovation in 2012 has...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Thirty Years With the Modern Day Internet
Vint Cerf, Internet Pioneer, marks the emergence of the modern day Internet, only thirty years ago today. I was a user of its predecssor before that. We had...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
We Need More Operating Systems
Pure opinion post here. I have never been a big fan of the operating system mono culture. In my first job out of college I worked for a company that developed applications...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
The Year That Was
That was, that almost wasn’t? src Thomas Lehrer is a mathematician and co-author of the paper, “The Distribution of the Number of Locally Maximal Elements in a...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Writing for Computers
I found this Ars Technica series about writing computer programs interesting. In part of my early enterprise career I did this for executives. Explaining to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Active Customers as Key to Growth
Very good HBR piece on the use of social customer connections to build your business. How do you get customer advocacy to work for you? Marketing, Product Development...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Think Different in 2013
In Innovation Excellence: A fundamental credo of innovation. A short post that will remind you of its importance.
From Schneier on Security
Terms of Service as a Security Threat
After the Instagram debacle, where it changed its terms of service to give itself greater rights over user photos and reversed itself after a user backlash, it's...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson