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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 Female Perspective of Computer Science
Research Snapshot for Fall 2012
Now that I'm back in school full time, it's a good time to have a look at where I am research-wise. Here are some of the projects I'm working on and what progress...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
The Good News about Computer Science
As is my usual practice, I have been mulling over what to write in my blog post for approximately the last month. The good news about computer science is that ...
From Putting People First
Book: Configuring the Networked Self
Configuring the Networked Self: Law, Code, and the Play of Everyday Practice by July E. Cohen Yale University Press, 2012 352 pages Free pdf version | Amazon link...
From Putting People First
How the Kenyan Base of the Pyramid uses their mobile phone
In order to understand mobile phone usage at the Base of the Pyramid (BoP) in Kenya, iHub Research and Research Solutions Africa conducted a 6-month study, funded...
From Putting People First
Want proof that market fit is everything? Test your app in the slums of Sao Paulo
For the Stanford-educated founders of Emprego Ligado, creating a successful app in Brazil required dismantling every assumption about the target audience. Emprego...
From Computational Complexity
Planarizing Gadgets for Perfect Matching do not Exist!
At Dagstuhl I was delighted when I saw the title of a talk to be given Planarizing Gadgets for Perfect Matching do not Exist because I had asked the question about...
From Schneier on Security
The Risks of Trusting Experts
I'm not sure what to think about this story: Six Italian scientists and an ex-government official have been sentenced to six years in prison over the 2009 deadly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Parc Learned
On what Xerox spinoff Parc learned about open innovation. We visited Parc many times and they us, always interesting. " ... The concept of open innovation has...
From Wild WebMink
FLOSS Weekly on Baserock
I was co-host on today’s FLOSS Weekly episode, about the Baserock continuous integration system for Linux (and also the amazing 8 CPU/32 core Baserock Slab server...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computing Projects for Girls
This is a big topic on my mind of late. There is some discussion of this in the comments on my Boring Projects post and well as some responses via Twitter. Joanne...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
DARPA Officially Launches Robotics Grand Challenge – Watch Pet-Proto Robot in Action
Today, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) officially kicked off its newest Grand Challenge, DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC). As we’ve blogged previously...
From Schneier on Security
Risks of Data Portability
Peter Swire and Yianni Lagos have pre-published a law journal article on the risks of data portability. It specifically addresses an EU data protection regulation...
From Putting People First
Core77 report on the Design Research Conference
A few days before the EPIC conference in Savannah, Chicago’s IIT Institute of Design organised and hosted its yearly Design Research conference. Although no videos...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dash Boards and all that
Interestingly thoughts by Stephen Few. On the use of dash board displays for control. Dashboards are just simple displays.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Up again, Learning Again.
I have many close watchers who have noticed this blog has been dark for several days. This is the first time this happened for years. A number of people noticed...
From My Biased Coin
STOC 2013 Submissions
I was asked to post the following regarding STOC 2013 submissions:1) Please read the Call for Papers carefully and pay special attentionto length and formatting...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Let Me Buy You a Beer: A Message from a CSTA Advocate
While I'm truly honored to be the first recipient of the CSTA Leadership Cohort APP (Advocacy Points Program) award, I wish to recognize members of CSTA Chicago...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog