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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 Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Preserved Squid
Science or art? As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
From The Noisy Channel
Upcoming Conferences: RecSys, HCIR, CIKM
Long-time readers know that I have strong opinions about academic conferences. I find the main value of conferences and workshops to be facilitating face-to-face...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Point-and-Shoot Game Creation
Were you ever the type to pick up a newspaper just so you could complete the crossword puzzle? Apparently this was a point of entry into the paper for many people...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
First GraphLab Workshop on Large-scale Machine Learning
The following is a special contribution to this blog by Carlos Guestrin, who will be joining the faculty of the University of Washington computer science and engineering...
From The Eponymous Pickle
CPG and Eye Tracking
Colleague Herb Sorensen comments on the use of eye tracking by CPG companies in RetailWire. True,this has become common, and more analytical work is needed " ....
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Four Researchers Honored With 2012 Dijkstra Prize
The Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) Special Interest Groups on Algorithms and Computation Theory (SIGACT) and Operating Systems (SIGOPS), together with...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Coursera
Mark Perry points to updates from the Coursera free online college course syndication .... including the mention of one at least from always provocativeDan Ariely...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
New Curriculum Resources for App Development on Windows 8
Most of what I post about is specifically for K-12 computer science education but I recently received the following about some curriculum designed for university...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Winnovate
I was sent a note about a new company formed by a former colleague of mine, Suna Polat, who worked with knowledge management projects at my former enterprise. ...
From My Biased Coin
Yale Daily News, continued
I pointed to this article in the Yale Daily News about computer science when it came out in April. Giorgos just pointed me back to it again, and I'd have to say...
From Computational Complexity
CCC 2012- Post 3 of probably 4
Post 3 of n on CCC 2012. I still don't know what n is. I summarize the third and fourth day of the conference. (The fourth day was only a half-day). Thursday June...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Announces New SAVI at Intersection of IT, Disasters
At a meeting of the National Science Board (NSB) yesterday, National Science Foundation (NSF) Assistant Director for Computer and Information Science and Engineering...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Integration in Search
Social integration of search Is mentioned as being deepened by Bing and Google+. We examined this general idea for some time as it related to corporate knowledge...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Imperfect Data
In the early days of executive information systems we first dealt with the questions of whose data was right? All data is imperfect, but what are the consequences...
From Schneier on Security
Camera-Transparent Plastic
I just wrote about the coming age of invisible surveillance. Here's another step along that process. The material is black in color and cannot be seen through...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brands Talk to Users on Foresquare
In a new development, brands can communicate to their most frequent check-ins via Foursquare. Making the interaction bi directional in useful ways has been talked...
From Wild WebMink
OSI Opens For Membership
You can finally join OSI. I’ve had a busy day at OSCON in Portland, OR today (apologies if I’ve been missing your messages and/or deadlines…) where interest around...
From The Eponymous Pickle
CPG Lags in Social Media
Not unexpected. CPG often lacks in their following of many technical innovations.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Important Information for NSF SaTC CAREER Proposals
For those planning to submit CAREER proposals to NSF/CISE for the Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program — the CAREER deadline is Monday, July 23rd —...
From Computer Science Teachers Association