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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 Wild WebMink
Surprising Sponsor
You’ll never guess who’s bankrolling open source. In my column in InfoWorld this week, I look at an initiative to get some crucial software written for America’s...
From The Noisy Channel
HCIR 2012 Symposium: Oct 4-5 in Cambridge, MA
It’s the event you’ve been waiting for: the Sixth Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval! HCIR 2012 will take place October 4th and 5th...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Smart Systems
In PEW Internet on the future of smart systems. Read all of it. " ... By 2020, experts think tech-enhanced homes, appliances, and utilities will spread, but many...
From Schneier on Security
Accountable Algorithms
Ed Felten has two posts about accountable algorithms. Good stuff.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What period is it? Let me check my phone
The Center for Advanced Technology is a great program at Lakewood Senior High School in Florida. Students in this program learn and use technology in interesting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Extra Sensory Shoppers
A short piece on 'extra sensory' means of understanding the consumer. Along the way some new mentions of work being done I had not seen before that is worth aVia...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Technologies to Dominate Retail
Kevin Judd sends this notice of a one day conference on Technology in retail. Combining speakers from a number of companies. On September 24 in Cambridge Mass...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics as a Database Operation
An interesting example of how a mid market company can gather and integrate and leverage data. here transforming the way that it does business. It seems like...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kroger Expands
Kroger experimenting with more general merchandise, like clothing, in Ohio. A natural,higher profitability approach for the grocery retailer.
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
To Be Published: Understanding the Power of Augmented Reality for Learning
I'm pleased to say that my work on cognitive theories and augmented reality is finally going to be published. 'Understanding the Power of Augmented Reality for2012...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
The 25 “Coolest” Computer Networking Research Projects
Network World is out with a list of the 25 “coolest” computer networking research projects: University labs, fueled with millions of dollars in funding and some...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing!
Do you know a digital diva, web chix, or coder girl? Encourage her to apply for the NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing! It is time to start those applications...
From Computational Complexity
Poset Games are PSPACE-complete
Consider the following game on a poset, each player takes turns picking an element x of a finite poset and removes all y ≥ x. First one to empty the poset wins....
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
New Secure and Trustworthy Computing Solicitation Issued
The National Science Foundation (NSF) last week issued a new solicitation for its Secure and Trustworthy Computing (SaTC) program: Cyberspace — a global “virtual”...
From Schneier on Security
The NSA and the Risk of Off-the-Shelf Devices
Interesting article on how the NSA is approaching risk in the era of cool consumer devices. There's a discussion of the president's network-disabled iPad, and...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Thinking About Databases
Some years ago I had students write a program that involved managing a checkbook and balancing it. I was so proud of it. Later a student told be she linked the...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How well does peer review work?
Since the second world war, science has relied on what I call traditional peer review. In this form of peer review, researchers send their manuscript to journal...
From Computational Complexity
Theory Conferences Galore
Early registration for the FOCS conference in New Jersey is September 27th. There is some travel support available for students and postdocs, deadline is this Friday...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
“Big Data Gets Its Own Photo Album”
From The New York Times‘s Bits Blog: Rick Smolan, the photographer and impresario of media projects, has tackled all sorts of big subjects over the years, from...
From Schneier on Security