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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 The Computing Community Consortium Blog
DoE Announces EERE Postdoctoral Research Awards
The Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) has issued a call for
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Make a Difference
n January 2008, CSTA launched the CSTA Leadership Cohort. The goal of the cohort is to identify and support two teacher leaders in each state who are working to...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
DARPA Director Stepping Down, Heading to Google
As our colleagues at CRA’s Policy Blog
From Schneier on Security
Video Shows TSA Full-Body Scanner Failure
The Internet is buzzing about this video, showing a blogger walking through two different types of full-body scanners with metal objects. Basically, by placing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Backstage at the P&G Digital Meeting
More information about last week's meetings at Procter & Gamble on the power of digital. Background interviews.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ethics of Blogging
In the NYT section on Media and Advertising: Good piece by David Carr on the ethics of blogging. On the aspects of aggregation versus completely novel column...
From The Eponymous Pickle
PepsiCo Expands Digital Incubator
Continued progress in how companies interact with digital innovation. Something we started in 2000 via innovation center and related technology efforts:" ... During...
From Computational Complexity
March Madness
Once again, America's favorite binary tree, the NCAA Men's National Championship Bracket. The tree seems to get more unbalanced every year. There are four regions...
From Wild WebMink
Free Money!
Kiva are giving away $25 to anyone who asks today. It’s true. The catch? You have to loan the money to someone who has far, far less money than you do and who will...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visualization on the iPad
iPad visualization Apps. Some interesting examples of ways to visualize things on a tablet. Tablets are ways to simplify interaction, as are visualization technologies...
From Schneier on Security
Jamming Speech with Recorded Speech
This is cool: The idea is simple. Psychologists have known for some years that it is almost impossible to speak when your words are replayed to you with a delay...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
The Tag Challenge: 5 Thieves, 5 Cities, 12 Hours on March 31
The U.S. Department of State has unveiled the Tag Challenge, a “social gaming
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 12 March 2012
In between the usual meetings, email exchanges, phone calls and meeting basketball stars (Why College?) I managed to collect a good number of links this week....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Legacy of the Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami
Mark Montgomery of Kyield writes about the legacy of the Tohuki earthquake. Its broad managerial implications and governance. This reminds me of the preparation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kahn Academy Has an App
In FastCompany: Look forward to taking a closer look. Will this prove to be a fundamental change in the educational process?" ... Khan Academy, the wildly popular...
From My Biased Coin
A Brief Comment on Conference Software
I'm currently juggling serving on two PCs. One uses HotCRP. One uses EDAS. In my humble opinion, HotCRP hugely dominates EDAS. Perhaps EDAS isn't actually so...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Daylight Savings Time and Costs
MJ Perry on Daylight Savings Time. Including an analysis of its cost. I find the Wikipedia article on the topic also quite interesting.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Allostatic Load and Post Traumatic Stress
Some time ago I got the chance to interact with Allostatix, the best known practitioner of the measurement of Allostatic Load, a multiple component human health...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantifying the Patient of the Future
More on quantifying the patient. Back to who owns the data and can ultimately leverage it. Can you afford the sensors needed? The quantified self movement's practitioners...
From Wild WebMink