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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 Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Microsoft Research Faculty Summit Live Stream 2012
I received this news from the ACM recently. The Microsoft Research Faculty Summit will be available live for the public this year. I
From Wild WebMink
ACTA Needs You
Just posted on ComputerWorldUK – why you need to call or write to your MEP now, ahead of Wednesday’s vote on ACTA, and how to do it. By the way, is anyone else...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Goes 3D
Amazon buys UpNext. To make a play at 3D mapping. " ... UpNext, which had apparently been pursued by other major tech companies, has launched apps for the iPad...
From The Eponymous Pickle
DARPA and XDATA
Currently taking a closer look at DARPA XDATA: " ... To enable large scale data processing in a wide range of potential settings, XDATA plans to release open source...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Where is the computer science at ISTE?
My prime focus at Microsoft is K-12 computer science education. While I am very interested in various areas of using technology in education I basically get paid...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Tests Augmented Reality Shopping App
In Adage: Have not seen IBM involved on the shelves of retail for a while. This is an interesting test of theirs in the testing the experience of in-store interaction...
From Schneier on Security
WEIS 2012
Last week I was at the Workshop on Economics and Information Security in Berlin. Excellent conference, as always. Ross Anderson liveblogged the event; see the...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 2 July 2012
I was pretty quiet last week. Some family stuff going on kept me away from work and (largely) off the Internet. Still over the last few days I have been catching...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Connect the Stars
How papers are like constellations Bob Vaughan is a mathematician at Penn State University. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society—not ours, Ben Franklin helped...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wearable Technology in the Background
In the NYT: An article suggesting that systems like Google Project Glass, once they are implemented well, will be a major shift that puts tech into the background...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Who teaches CS?
In a previous blog post (3/10/2012), Thinking Big About Computer Science Education, Baker Franke addressed two tightly-coupled problems: where does computer science...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stat Tracking Shoes
Nike comes out with Stat tracking shoes. I had a talk with a person recently involved in the use of sensors and data gathering and analysis in athletics, and I...
From Putting People First
Common Cause: the case for working with values and frames
In 2009, the chief executives and a few staff from a handful of UK non-governmental organisations (including WWF and RSPB) came together to discuss the inadequacy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mining Unstructured Data
Information Management on: How to Mine Unstructured data. Good, fairly non technical view. We started doing this with external consumer comment data.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cloud Outage Risks
Another Amazon cloud outage makes you wonder about the real risks involved with using cloud services. Should you have a backup cloud for these kinds of events?
From My Biased Coin
Anniversary
Today I get to celebrate that I'm two years done with my three year stint as "Area Dean for Computer Science" (chair). Whoever the new person is, they're supposed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Manifest Destiny of AI
Walter Riker sends along a link to a thoughtful American Scientist article which asks a good question: " ... Will AI create mindlike machines, or will it show...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Your Books are now Reading You
In the WSJ: Excellent piece on how book reading is now less than a solitary activity with e-books. The new books are also reading you and gathering and leveraging...
From Wild WebMink