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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 Putting People First
Experientia researcher speaking at Harvard’s Medicine 2.0 conference
Experientia researcher Anna Wojnarowska spoke this Sunday at the Medicine 2.0 conference in Boston on her research on the influence of the hospital environment,...
From Putting People First
Book: Make It So: Interaction Design Lessons from Science Fiction
Make It So – Interaction design lessons from science fiction By Nathan Shedroff & Christopher Noessel Rosenfeld Media September 2012 ISBNs: paperback (1-933820-98...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Extending Watson
IBM continues to seek to extend the potential of AI, now broadening the potential of Watson to the average user. Will this take a Siri like advisers to a new level...
From The Eponymous Pickle
iRobot Acquires Evolution Robotics
In this development, iRobot seems to be playing for more in-home applications, but it still appears to be floor cleaning. Does this mean we are out of other in...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing 2012
One of the ways that one can help young women with an interest in computing and related fields is to provide recognition for the world they have already beenNCWIT...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Controversies For Fun and Discussion
I love a good discussion. Pros and cons and honest and hopefully friendly discussion of issue with different opinions make for good learning experiences. One of...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Don’t Panic
The other day I was looking through the analytics for this blog to see what sort of searches people were doing that let them here. Mostly I was seeing things IThe...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of September 17
September 19 Markup: The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will review pending legislation, including a concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pepsi Goes Native in Silicon Valley
In AdAge: An idea we tried as well. Its a useful idea, but think it is more useful to embed silicon valley into your own contexts to get better ideas and testable...
From Wild WebMink
FLOSS UK AGM
I’ll be talking about “What’s Driving Open Source” after the Annual Meeting for FLOSS UK in London on Thursday.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
“Improving Our Depth Perception in Augmented Reality”
The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Science Nation has featured the work of Mississippi State University computer scientist J. Edward Swan II today, describing...
From Computational Complexity
Imagining Imaginary Probabilities
In the year 4000BC my great-great-...-great grandmother tried to solve (in today's terms) the equation x2 + 2x + 2 = 0 She discovered that if it had a solution...
From Schneier on Security
Diamond Swallowing as a Ruse
It's a known theft tactic to swallow what you're stealing. It works for food at the supermarket, and it also can work for diamonds. Here's a twist on that tactic...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
From GPS and Virtual Globes to Spatial Computing-2020
The following is a special contribution to this blog from the organizing committee of the Computing Community Consortium’s (CCC) visioning workshop on spatial computing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Users of Big Data
On the Human component of Big Data in HBR. This is not discussed as much as it should be. How do people interact with the data and the analytics that come from...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 17 September 2012
From my point of view the first week of this blog at this location has good well. I realize that I’ve posted a number of longish posts about some of my own thoughts...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
The Future is Now
Here's a cool idea for a lesson to get students thinking about the impact of technology on their lives and on their futures. Checkout the 75 references on this...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Recommender Systems
ACM sponsored Webinar on Recommender systems, the power of personalization.Thursday, September 20, 2012 at 12:00 PM EDT/11:00 AM CDT/9:00 AM PDT/4:00 PM UTC Personalization...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Campbell Soup Innovation Center
Always interested in the concept of contextually rich innovation centers. Here is a new one by Campbell Soup / Pepperidge Farm. Looking for more detailed descriptions...
From The Eponymous Pickle