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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 Putting People First
Designing perceptual persuasion
All web designers use perceptual persuasion in their designs, but without knowing they do. Interaction designer Wouter Middendorf delves into the matter: “Persuasive...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Issues Advanced Computing Infrastructure Plan
The National Science Foundation (NSF)
From Computational Complexity
The Envelope Please
The conference that shares its namesake with this blog has announced their accepted papers. The 27th Conference on Computational Complexity itself will be heldCambridge...
From Schneier on Security
Mobile Malware Is Increasing
According to a report by Juniper, mobile malware is increasing dramatically. In 2011, we saw unprecedented growth of mobile malware attacks with a 155 percentstory...
From Putting People First
The future of television is not television
Television is breaking free of old paradigms and constraints. Consumers have no shortage of places to look for the content they want
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Next Round Of Imagine Cup Deadlines Coming Up
The Imagine Cup series of competitions has a new round of deadlines coming up over the next two weeks. The good news is that the barriers to entry in most of these...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Glasses for All?
The rumor has been out there for years, that Google was developing a glasses-style interface for interaction and search. We examined the general idea for maintenance...
From CERIAS Blog
An Interesting Opportunity
As someone who is interested in information security and CERIAS (or why else would you be reading this blog?), you are undoubtedly already aware of the great need...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Collaboration A Key Skill for the Elementary Classroom
Motivation often comes from the most unlikely of sources. My mother recently waxed nostalgic about life before computers. She said, "Life was much simpler then...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Scientific Storytelling using Visualization
Useful thoughts. Tell a good story, get it to the right people, then provide the background as needed"Scientists frequently tell stories using visualizations of...
From Computational Complexity
Presidents Day Poll- what does the youth of american think about....
(In honor of President's day which was two days ago.) On Presidents Day last year I had my classes fill out a form saying who they thought was the best, second...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Empower MediaMarketing Expands
I have had a number of interactions with Empower. They acquired retail data analytics specialists MIG last year. Now they have created the Empower Group by the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G to Address Cost Cutting
An extended article on how P&G plans to address cost cutting. A periodic thing at all large enterprises.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
2012 STEM Video Game Challenge Launched
For the second year in a row,
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Big Brother Knows More Than You Think
And by Big Brother I don
From The Eponymous Pickle
Advertising Adapts to Gender
An example of a public advertisement using facial recognition software to alter an advertisement based on gender. Another example of adaptive interactivity inKeith...
From Wild WebMink
? A Tax Whose Time Has Come
Dubbed “the world’s most popular new tax”, this proposal has gathered an amazing breadth of support globally, including world political and business leaders. It...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson