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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 Eponymous Pickle
New MS Logo
A new logo for MS, also has some links to past logos of Windows. We traveled to Redmond way back then during Windows 1, talked to Gates, who tried to convince...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Teaching Robots to Improvise
More on robots improvising. An important step.The ones that will ultimately be able to sense. react to and plan for their future under a given set of goals will...
From Wild WebMink
It’s Not Just The Hugos
DRM farces are like London buses. You wait for ever, and then several come along at once. After writing my story for ComputerWorld about the blackout of the Hugo...
From Schneier on Security
Wall Street Journal Review of Liars and Outliers
Liars and Outliers (along with two other books: Kip Hawley's memoir of his time at the TSA and Against Security, by Harvey Molotch) has been reviewed in the Wall...
From Computational Complexity
Theory Day at UMCP Oct 24
The University of Maryland at College park is having a Theory Day on Wed Oct 24! Come hear Distinguished talks by Julia Chuzhoy and Venkataesan Guruswami! Short...
From Schneier on Security
Hacking Brain-Computer Interfaces
In this fascinating piece of research, the question is asked: can we surreptitiously collect secret information from the brains of people using brain-computer interface...
From My Biased Coin
But I had to grow bigger. So bigger I got.
First day of lecture for CS 222, Algorithms at the End of the Wire. They stuck me in a classroom that holds 20 comfortably, and 25 or so can be done. I'm pretty...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
"We are the Faces of Computing" Poster Contest Launches
The CSTA is pleased to announce the launching of its student poster contest, "We are the Faces of Computing". For this contest, students are asked to create a poster...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Thinking Out of the Notation Box
How we cope with overloaded words and symbols src Georg Cantor invented not only the concepts of transfinite cardinal and ordinal numbers, but also the notation...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Judea Pearl’s Turing Lecture Now Available on Video
As we blogged in this space last month, Judea Pearl – winner of the 2011 ACM A. M. Turing Award ”for fundamental contributions to artificial intelligence through...
From Computational Complexity
Should we learn from the Masters or from the Pupils?
The following is a paraphrase of a comment at the end of the Suggested Readings section of Spivak's calculus book: Abel remarked that he attributed his profound...
From Wild WebMink
“Fair Use” Robots Are Science Fiction
The black-out of the Hugo Awards by a “robot” that thought the clip of Doctor Who shown just before Neil Gaiman spoke was proof positive of piracy is educational...
From Schneier on Security
Eye Twitch Patterns as a Biometric
Yet another biometric: eye twitch patterns: ...a person's saccades, their tiny, but rapid, involuntary eye movements, can be measured using a video camera. The...
From The Noisy Channel
LinkedIn at RecSys 2012
LinkedIn is an industry leader in the area of recommender systems – a place where big data meets clever algorithms and content meets social. If you’re one of the...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
The First Time I Don't Want to Go Back to School
Today is the first day back to school for a lot of people. It's been the same for me for many years, given that I have yet to leave school behind for good. ButView...
From Putting People First
Ericsson on evolving TV and video-consumption habits
Ericsson is publishing interesting research these days (and therefore gets featured on this blog). Its latest TV and video ConsumerLab report found that mobile...
From Putting People First
Africa embracing m-commerce
In a new report from its ConsumerLab, Ericsson maps out the potential of transformation within m-commerce across the region of sub-Saharan Africa. Based on in-depth...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Nearing the Turing Test
Freelance writer Dan Falk penned an interesting story for The Telegraph last month, reflecting on his experience as a judge in the Turing Test Marathon this summer...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Imagine Cup 2013 Opens with Larger Prizes
Last week Microsoft announced the opening of the 2013 Imagine Cup. This year there are thee competition and three challenges for students to enter. The prizes are...
From Putting People First