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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
New Advances in Gesture Control
Integrated with software systems being made available today. A new example. Will this capability ultimately require the teaching of gesture control in the fineElliptic...
From Geeking with Greg
Code Maven and programming for teens
I recently launched Code Maven from Crunchzilla. It helps teens learn a little about what they can do if they learn more about programming. A lot of teenstry...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Promise of Neuromarketing
I was involved with several neuromarketing tests, both inside and outside the enterprise. There were always very large expectations in play. These expectations...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Another Squid Comic
Another squid comic. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
“What Will the Future Be Like?”
This week’s episode of David Pogue’s PBS NOVA Science NOW explores the future that is being created by computer scientists: “The technologies that will transform...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Indoor Maps
Google provides more indoor floor maps. This is something they have been doing for some time. We examined it for use in retail. Now over 10,000 maps exist for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Physicists View of Our Technological Future
In the year 2100: " ... Dr. Michio Kaku, celebrity physicist who has written New York Times Bestselling books, Physics of the Impossible and Physics of the Future...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM/DemandTec and New Partner Service
This is dated, but the application is interesting. Just brought to my attention by a colleague. We had looked at how competitive information could be integrated...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Archimedes Bathtub
Recently started reading Archimedes Bathtub: The Art and Logic of Breakthrough Thinking, by David Perkins. Nicely done. Easily read. It includes a number of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bluebrain
Reverse engineering the human brain. Quite an idea,brought up a number of times, but I still don't quite see what we really know yet will make this possible for...
From Wild WebMink
Cause and Effect
Why do people take actions that actually make things worse as they attempt to solve complex problems? I was interviewed Monday for an upcoming documentary called...
From Schneier on Security
Preventing Catastrophic Threats
"Recommendations to Prevent Catastrophic Threats." Federation of American Scientists, 9 November 2012. It's twelve specific sets of recommendations for twelvethis...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile Commerce is Jumping
Thanksgiving sales are being driven through mobile rather than social. A look at the future? Driven by location, in other words anywhere, as opposed to social...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Rhodes Scholar Joy Buolamwini
This year’s CCC Thanksgiving feel-good story features Joy Buolamwini, a 2012 graduate of the Georgia Tech College of Computing who was recently named a 2013 Rhodes...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
What I do with my time
I am not a very productive person. I also do not work long hours. However, I sometimes give the impression that I productive. I have been asked to explain how I...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
ACM/IEEE-CS Computer Science Curricula 2013 - Ironman v0.8 Draft Available for Comments
Dear Colleagues, We are happy to announce the availability of the ACM/IEEE-CS Computer Science Curricula 2013 - Ironman v0.8 draft. The draft is available at...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile Marketing Toothpaste
Good overview of the use of mobile marketing for something as common as toothpaste. " ... Marketing toothpaste can be a challenge for brands because even though...
From Schneier on Security
Cell Phone Surveillance
Good article on the different ways the police can eavesdrop on cell phone calls.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Seize the Professional Development!
The Philadelphia Area chapter started providing professional development workshops to our members because they asked for it. We regularly query our membership as...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog