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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 Computer Science Teachers Association
Improving the International Focus on STEM
I've been doing a lot of research lately for different projects I have at my school. Every time I research something for my unit plans or projects, I keep stumbling...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How to be happier while annoying your wife
About a year ago, I read Made by Hand: Searching for Meaning in a Throwaway World by Mark Frauenfelder. It is a simple book with a simple message. How to be happy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Advancing Analytics to Machine Learning
Things are changing in advanced analytics. Simple statistics is not enough anymore. An example from Orbitz. Read the whole article: "... I lead the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Online Neuro Courses
Via NeuroRelay: A number of free online courses from Coursera on topics Neurological from Coursera. Not too much on the Neuromarketing side, but worth taking...
From Schneier on Security
Recent Developments in Password Cracking
A recent Ars Technica article made the point that password crackers are getting better, and therefore passwords are getting weaker. It's not just computing speed...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
We Are Making Things Too Hard
I once had a conversation with Bill Gates. Yes, in person, face to face. And while I will not go into the whole meeting he said a couple of things that I continue...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Market Shifts
In Forbes: Adam Hartung: Growth - Dealing with Market Shifts. Innovation Matters; It’s Why You Care More About Apple than Kraft ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Selling the Cloud
Nicely done overview, with good graphics, about the cloud and its business implications. " ... The next stage of cloud computing will require companies to turn...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
New Horizons for Erwin Gianchandani
Erwin Gianchandani joined the Computing Community Consortium as our inaugural Director in April 2010. Much of the success that the CCC has achieved is directly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Price Optimization
Another example of the use of price optimization in retail. Many large retailers have tested the idea.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
One-on-One With New FTC Chief Technologist Steven Bellovin
Earlier this month, Columbia University computer science professor Steven Bellovin was named the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) chief technologist, taking over...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Octonaut
A space-traveling squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Might Turing Have Won A Turing Award?
A bit of fun Ann Sobel is a software engineer who is active, besides her research and teaching, in the IEEE Society. She regularly runs a column in their Computer...
From Apophenia
Three conversations for parents: navigating networked publics
This post was originally written for A Platform For Good.org, a new site dedicated to creating opportunities for young people and adults to engage with technology...
From Wild WebMink
Iona Tour – Last Gig
We went to hear the last concert of the Iona tour Sunday night. It was a tremendous evening of music with gorgeous soundscapes enfolding intelligent, thoughtful...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
“A Robot With a Reassuring Touch”
The New York Times’s John Markoff has penned another article on robotics today, this time featuring the efforts of Rodney Brooks and Rethink Robotics to engineer...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Making the Most of Conference Travel
When I'm lucky enough to go to a conference through school, I try to make the most of the time spent in a new place. This year, the Grace Hopper Celebration of...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NIH Seeking Input on New mHealth Public-Private Partnership
The Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) within the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has issued a Request for Information (RFI) announcing...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Decorate For Inspiration
Last week Mike Zamansky (blog at C'est la Z Twitter @Zamansky), who is the head computer science teacher at Stuyvesant High School in New York City, tweeted about...
From Putting People First