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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 Computing Community Consortium Blog
Mozilla and NSF Announce First Round of Winners for Brainstorming Phase of Ignite Challenge
As we’ve previously blogged, Mozilla and the National Science Foundation (NSF) have teamed up for a challenge, called “Mozilla Ignite“, which focuses on the development...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Professional Development Benefits All
Recently, Rutgers University hosted a CS4HS workshop for K-12 CS educators. With the help of a grant from Google, Rutgers CS Department planned and hosted a two...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What About Small Data?
This is an other post along the lines of We Are Making Things Too Hard more than the more obvious Thinking About Databases. And there may perhaps be a bit of old...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
How Not To Prove Integer Factoring Is In P
A possible barrier to proofs that factoring is in polynomial time Mihalis Yannakakis is a Knuth Prize-winning complexity theorist and database expert. With Christos...
From Schneier on Security
Using Agent-Based Simulations to Evaluate Security Systems
Kay Hamacher and Stefan Katzenbeisser, "Public Security: Simulations Need to Replace Conventional Wisdom," New Security Paradigms Workshop, 2011. Abstract: Is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Mining for Drug Facts
In CACM: On the use of data mining to determine drug information about drugs Work out of Stanford University: " ... When people with high blood pressure start...
From Putting People First
Alok Nandi to chair Interaction14 – February 2014 in Amsterdam
The IxDA Board of Directors just announced that Alok Nandi will be Chair of Interaction14, to be held February, 2014 in Amsterdam in conjunction with Utrecht School...
From Putting People First
Designing for Mobile, Part 1: Information Architecture
Mobile devices come with a whole host of new constraints (and opportunities) for our designs. In this – the first part of her series on mobile design – Elaine McVicar...
From Putting People First
The magic of good service
THE customer is king. So some firms have started appointing chief customer officers (CCOs) to serve the king more attentively. These new additions to the (already...
From Putting People First
Book: Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century
Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century By Jeanne E. Arnold, Anthony P. Graesch, Enzo Ragazzini, and Elinor Ochs UCLA, Cotson Institute of Archaeology July 2012...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Ruth Hartsook’s CS Teaching Resources
Ruth Hartsook posted links to some interactive web based teaching resources on the Advanced Placement Computer Science discussion forums that I think are just wonderful...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Consumer Products Companies Know
Gib Bassett of Teradata on What Consumer Products Companies Know About Consumers. " ... With widespread adoption of mobile devices and participation in socialSome...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Awards $50 million for Cybersecure Research Projects
Today, the National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded $50 million for research projects designed to build a secure cyber society and protect the US infrastructure...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pepsico Search for Tech in Brazil
In CGT: " ... PepsiCo is bringing PepsiCo10, its three-year-old technology incubator program, to Brazil. "Along with the search for new ideas, PepsiCo10 supports...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Behavior and Psychology
Correspondent Lisa C. Kaczmarczyk In her Interdisciplinary Blog, ' ... "You can talk about behavior without knowing anything about psychology" according to Christopher...
From The Eponymous Pickle
An Easy Button for Big Data?
Bill Franks, who has an excellent book out on big data analytics, writes about the lack of an 'easy button' for big data. Insightful thoughts. " ... It is good...
From Schneier on Security
Quantum Cryptography
Long article on quantum cryptography and cryptanalysis.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Can We Afford To Wait For a CS Sputnik Moment
I was having a talk with a teacher online recently and he reminded me of the Sputnik scare that started a lot of renewed interest in science and math in education...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predictions for Self Driving Cars
Recorded Future posts one of their future looking views of the future of self driving cars. Another good example of how their technology works, especially for...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science