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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
When a+b is harder than b+a
Is 1+4 a harder calculation than 4+1? It may be if you are 2+3 years old. I asked my 7-2 year old great niece Noelle the following sequence of questions. I include...
From The Eponymous Pickle
iRobot Reorganizes
iRobot, the company that first brought practical robotics into the home, is reorganizing. Based on what they have done well, this makes sense. " ... iRobot...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NIST Establishes National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence
At a press briefing featuring high-ranking Federal, state, and local officials on its Gaithersburg, MD, campus last month,
From Schneier on Security
How Changing Technology Affects Security
Security is a tradeoff, a balancing act between attacker and defender. Unfortunately, that balance is never static. Changes in technology affect both sides. Society...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Using Kinect for Windows with XNA Curriculum
I mentioned Rob Miles new Using Kinect for Windows with XNA curriculum in Monday
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How fast is bit packing?
Integers values are typically stored using 32 bits. Yet if you are given an array of integers between 0 and 131 072, you could store these numbers using as little...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Twitter as the Ultimate Business Intelligence Tool?
Twitter as a Business Intelligence tool? I can see see the idea of tweets acting as a continuous interaction of interest and attention that can determine what...
From My Biased Coin
Pointers, Not Papers
Having just crammed everything we could of a 10 page paper into 5 pages for a workshop paper, I admit that besides (once again) being annoyed by having to go through...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google's Knols are Going Away
I was just sent a message warning me that the Google Knol system will be retired by April 30. We experimented with it in the enterprise in 2007, thinking about...
From Schneier on Security
The Keywords the DHS Is Using to Analyze Your Social Media Posts
According to this document, received by EPIC under the Freedom of Information Act, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is combing through the gazillions of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IKEA Re Engineers the Touch Pad
For the launch of their iPad catalog IKEA has commissioned a clever new take a touch tablet designed for cold weather mittens. Video.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
New Education-Related Tools
Last month I attended the Consumer Electronics Show, the largest annual convention held in Las Vegas. The 2012 CES featured more than 2,700 vendors, 1.8 million...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CS 2012 Strawman Draft Comment Period Open
As I mentioned a few weeks ago, (ACM/IEEE-CS Computer Science Curricula 2013 - Strawman draft) the ACM/IEEE-CS Computer Science Curricula 2013 (CS2013) Strawman...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Addressing Shopper Behavioral Shifts
Good piece from the editor of Mobile Marketer. Behavior is changing rapidly and retailers will have to keep up to survive. The data to describe this change is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Self Propelled Shopping Cart
A Kinect shopping cart that follows people around the store and can track what they put into it. The 'smarter cart' as they put it. Have followed and tested...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Thank You!
I’d like to pause briefly today to acknowledge you — our readers. On behalf of the CCC Council,
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
More on Signing Up for DreamSpark and AppHub
About a month ago I wrote a post (DreamSpark and AppHub Sign Up) to help people step through the process of signing up for DreamSpark and AppHub accounts. The problem...
From The Eponymous Pickle