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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 Computational Complexity
17x17: Paper that solved it available!/A contest inspired by it!/NPC result inspired by it!
Three new 17×17 items: The paper (and some sequels) that SOLVED the 17×17 problem and the 17×18 problem are now available here. (I can't seem to link to the page...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Money
An impressive special report in IEEE Spectrum on the Future of Money. With emphasis on the near future direction of electronic payment methods. Are we in the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Finding Your Smile
An idea related to previous work at MIT to determine how people reacted to ideas, products and interaction. We examined this previously to determine how people...
From Schneier on Security
Bar Code Switching
A particularly clever form of retail theft -- especially when salesclerks are working fast and don't know the products -- is to switch bar codes. This particular...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Science Summit Videos
A number of videos from the Data Science Summit via Greenplum that are worth examining. Useful selection from 2011 as well: The few I have looked at so far...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Why we Lie
Why we Lie. by Dan Ariely. Why we do, and how he has experimented with methods to increase and decrease the likelihood of the lie. As usual a thought provoking...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wearable Computing
In the WSJ: More on wearable computing solutions like Google Glasses. A favorite topic based on our own experiments. Inevitable? " ... Some computer scientists...
From Schneier on Security
The Psychology of Immoral (and Illegal) Behavior
When I talk about Liars and Outliers to security audiences, one of the things I stress is our traditional security focus -- on technical countermeasures -- is much...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Grades and Tuitions are Inflated
Data and graphs from Mark Perry on the inflation of grades and college costs. Are they related? Hearing more talk about the necessity of a college education....
From Wild WebMink
Java ME Fragmentation
Sun acknowledged in 2008 and 2009 that Java ME was fragmented – and had been for years – without any help from Android. More in today’s article on ComputerWorld...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Scanning the Robots at ICRA 2012
Our colleagues at IEEE’s Spectrum have posted a neat montage of the exhibit hall at last week’s
From Schneier on Security
The Problem of False Alarms
The context is tornado warnings: The basic problem, Smith says, it that sirens are sounded too often in most places. Sometimes they sound in an entire county for...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Evolving Mind Mapping
I worked with concept and mind mapping for a number of years, and use it still for consulting interactions. It is still evolving. Allowing us to co-create conversations...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Turing Centenary
ACM Turing Centenary Celebration to Be Webcast Live!If you can't attend ACM's Turing Centenary Celebration, you can still experience the thrill of rubbing elbows...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
21st Century Computer Architecture
In April, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) commissioned members of the computer architecture research community to generate a short report to help guide...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Planning a Summer Institute
I think my last blog was written while I was monitoring my final exam. This one is written as I take a break from planning for a summer institute for teachers for...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of May 29
May 31 Hearing: The Communications and Technology Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a hearing on international proposals to regulate...
From My Biased Coin
More Entrepreneurial Harvard?
One thing I noticed talking to CS graduates from Harvard this year is -- entirely anecdotally -- more seem to be going to small start-ups. This has been an increasing...
From The Eponymous Pickle