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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: Baby Opalescent Squid
Baby squid larvae are transparent after they hatch, so you can see the chromataphores (color control mechanisms) developing after a few days. As usual, you can...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
U.S., Japan Collaboration on Big Data and Disaster Research
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Bing Links with Britannica
ComputerWorld reports: To provide thumbnail encyclopedic information based on search requests. This would be akin to the fact that Wikipedia hits often come up...
From My Biased Coin
New SIGACT Officers
Lance informs me we have newly elected officers at SIGACT.Chair: Paul BeameMembers-at-Large:Venkatesan GuruswamiRocco ServedioAvrim BlumTal RabinCongratulations...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visirule for Expert Systems
I have had reason recently to re-examine the use of expert systems to understand and improve complex business processes. I have mentioned a package called Visirule...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart and P&G Team for Mobile Shopping
In a unique and novel approach a faux food truck in NYC and Chicago is decorated with QR codes. Allows the walking shopper to buy an assortment of popular consumer...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF, Science Seeking Video Games, Apps for Visualization Challenge
The National Science Foundation (NSF)
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
When to Use Math Problems for Teaching Programming
Last time I talked about Dan Meyer's work, I pondered how his ideas about perplexing problems applied to educational games. He recently did an Ignite talk that...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Mihai P?tra?cu 1982
A pathbreaking researcher taken too soon from us (src) Mihai Pătraşcu passed away on Tuesday of brain cancer, having not yet reached age 30. We, Dick and Ken, did...
From Wild WebMink
Old Arguments Resurfacing
I’ve been working with corporate open source for long enough now that arguments against it that were popular years ago, which I’d assumed were fully explained and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mapping Learning to Value
In Chief Learning Officer: " ... Economic models change and firms follow, dragging the accountants kicking and screaming. Understanding business
From Schneier on Security
The Catastrophic Consequences of 9/11
This is an interesting essay -- it claims to be the first in a series -- that looks at the rise of "homeland security" as a catastrophic consequence of the 9/11...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
So you want to teach computer science?
A number of years ago after being laid off from a job developing software I went into teaching. I taught a year in a pair of elementary schools and then spent 8...
From Putting People First
Mark Vanderbeeken: The English language innovation bias
Experientia partner Mark Vanderbeeken wrote an article on the dominance of the English language in the discourse of innovation and the bias that this creates. This...
From My Biased Coin
Mihai Memorial Blog
I received the following note from Mikkel Thorup and Alexandr Andoni.I believe it's appropriate to share:Dear friends of Mihai,We made a blog in Mihai's memory....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intrinsic Motivation
The ThreeJoy site points us to Dan Pink's " ... RSA Animate video from his bestseller Drive is a terrific way into the potential for intrinsic motivation in engineering...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Top IT Trends from Gartner
Top 2012 IT trends from Gartner. " ... Gartner kicked off its Infrastructure & Operations Management Summit here today with a "top 10" list of the most significant...
From The Noisy Channel
Scale, Structure, and Semantics
This morning I had the pleasure to present a keynote address at the Semantic Technology & Business Conference (SemTechBiz). I’ve had a long and warm relationship...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Three Dimensional Brands
In AdAge: This is not about new kinds of reality, but about linking pictures of brands to the real thing. Apple does it well with their stores. Varies by the...
From Computer Science Teachers Association