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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
For March Madness, the Mathematics Behind Bracketology
Just in time for the kickoff of
From My Biased Coin
Housing Day Midterm
As a sign I just must be getting old, I don't get an issue some students have with me.Since I've been professing, I hold the midterm for my class the Thursday before...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Linkedin Acquires Rapportive
Have used Rapportive for years. If you have many contacts it usefully provides information about them on a right hand column in GMail. It makes sense thatthey...
From Wild WebMink
? A Day At The Races
As a child, my parents used to regularly take me point-to-point racing. I wasn’t very interested in the horses, but there were often trees to climb and always a...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data and the Stalker Economy
Correspondent Jerry Michalski comments in Forbes on Big Data and the Stalker Economy. Based in part on our conference call about Big Data from this Monday. ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Demographics of Digital Platforms
Colleague Dean DeBiase on this topic. Good points, Dean. " ... One of the most interesting aspects of the analysis issued recently by Nielsen company NM Incite...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Thinking Big About Computer Science Education
Thinking big about computer science education means thinking about how we can guarantee that every American student has some formal computing education. Thererequired...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
UPenn Professor Talks Robotics at TED 2012
Vijay Kumar, Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics as well as Computer & Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania, delivered a fascinating...
From Geeking with Greg
Ad targeting at Yahoo
A remarkably detailed paper, "Web-Scale User Modeling for Targeting" (PDF), will be presented at WWW 2012 that gives many insights into how Yahoo does personalized...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Dr Z
If you have downloaded and installed the new Windows 8 Consumer Preview you have noticed that is is different. In many ways very different from previous versions...
From Putting People First
In praise of lost time
Facebook Timeline is an exemplary bit of interaction design that does little to advance the timeline formally. Yet it might alter the nature of human memory itself...
From Putting People First
Striving and Surviving: exploring the lives of women at the Base of the Pyramid
On International Women’s Day, the GSMA mWomen Programme released a study called “Striving and Surviving
From The Eponymous Pickle
Priceonomics
Priceonomics. 130 million prices to buy or sell just about everything. I wonder why this kind of data has not been provided before.
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Humboldt Squid Can Dive to 1.5 km
Yet another impressive Humboldt squid feat: "We've seen them make really impressive dives up to a kilometre and a half deep, swimming straight through a zone where...
From Schneier on Security
Liars and Outliers: Book Excerpt
Gizmodo published the beginning of Chapter 17: the last chapter.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Why College?
Yesterday Edwin Guarin and I represented Microsoft at the formal opening of a computer lab at the Clark Elementary and Middle school in Hartford CT. The lab was...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gamification Examples
I have now given several talks on the use of game dynamics for engagement and dreary task completion. I am often asked ... give me some real practical examples...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Science of Storytelling
In Forbes: A favorite research topic of mine. A form of neuroscience because we all do love the enchantment of a good story. What is a good ad if it is not...
From The Eponymous Pickle