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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
Lost Smart Phones and Human Nature
Symantec deliberately "lost" a bunch of smart phones with tracking software on them, just to see what would happen: Some 43 percent of finders clicked on an app...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Printable Paper Robots
A simple idea. An MIT project that aims to create such devices by 2017. Directionally interesting, but does not seem to be very practical. Though as the example...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Lecturing for a First Year Programming Class
I gave a guest lecture at Carleton last week. It was for the first programming class that both computer science and non-major students take, taught using Processing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Y Online Shopping Mall
The Big Y Marketplace debuts. The idea has been tried a number of times in the past, not to particular success. Being a single place aggregator for online experiences...
From Schneier on Security
Law Enforcement Forensics Tools Against Smart Phones
Turns out the password can be easily bypassed: XRY works by first jailbreaking the handset. According to Micro Systemation, no
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Announces New Expeditions in Computing Awards
The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) today announced four new Expeditions in Computing...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
It is what you do, not what you own
Over 20 years ago, back when I was in high school, I went on a sailboat trip. I was so impressed that I decided to own a sailboat one day. I realized that a sailboat...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Coca Cola Research on Social Media Users
A report in Progressive Grocer on Coca Cola's analysis of social media users. " ... A report from the Coca-Cola Retailing Research Council divides social media...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visual Culture Taking Over
In Adage: On the increase of image based culture. Pinterest and the increase image tweets are just a few examples. Easier to scan, yes. A thousand words? But...
From Computational Complexity
We Think Like Our Fields
Have lunch with economists and they'll talk about the decision making processes and equilibriums of everything from politics to sports. Computer scientists worry...
From Schneier on Security
Computer Forensics: An Example
Paul Ceglia's lawsuit against Facebook is fascinating, but that's not the point of this blog post. As part of the case, there are allegations that documents and...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
DigiGirlz Cambridge MA
Last Friday Microsoft NERD (New England Research and Development Center) was pleased to host DigiGirlz Day for close to 300 high school girls from around Massachusetts...
From Putting People First
Mayo Clinic on empathy and design
James Oliver Senior and Adam Dole, resp. designer and business planner at Mayo Clinic, argue that health-related apps often fail to take into account any understanding...
From Putting People First
Service design talk by Anna Meroni in Sweden
Anna Meroni, PhD, is a scholar and professor in Service and Strategic Design at Politecnico di Milano. She works on design activism, social innovation and sustainability...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Chronicle of Philanthropy
A visualization of philanthropic stories. A gallery of stories about why people should give using infographics
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Defining the "Not Enough People" Problem Differently
Recently, Solving the Pipeline Problem: How to Get More Women in Tech and Facebook message: Girls, too, can do computers are two examples of hand-wringing overMarissa...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Books and Websites
Books should be as easy to produce as websites. In O'Reilly Radar. On publishing platforms. " ... There are countless author and book production platforms...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
White House, Labor Dept. Announce Summer Jobs+ Code Sprint
Calling all developers! Late this afternoon, the White House and Department of Labor announced the Summer Jobs+ Code Sprint,
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM