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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
Sending Coded Messages with Postage Stamps
The history of coded messages in postage-stamp placement. I wonder how prevalent this actually was. My guess is that it was more a clever idea than an actual...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Control Algorithm
An Algorithm that estimates who is in control based on speech patterns. Sounds obvious, but there are likely subtle semantic details involved.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Microsoft Bliink 2012 Illinois Web Design Competition
Registration for the Microsoft Bliink 2012 Illinois Web Design Competition is now open. Bliink (http://bit.ly/Bliink) is open to Illinois students ages 13-19 participating...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Poor State of US Public Domain Laws
Techdirt Post on how public domain laws are preventing access to works that should surely be available to all by now. A situation that needs to be corrected soon...
From The Eponymous Pickle
US to Become Paperless?
Polls say no. we examined this for years. Paper will always be here, but in reduced amounts. I think tablets will push the gap closer than it had been.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Are you a gold prospector, or a construction worker?
Most work is akin to construction jobs: you work until the house is built. You just have to keep the servers running day after day. You keep writing code day after...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Is It Smart to Use Smart Phones
While not the latest trend, I find that more of the teachers in one district I serve are using 'smart' phones among their educational tools for learning. One teacher...
From Computational Complexity
Is there a NICE gadget for showing PLANAR HC is NPC?
(I have already posted this question on CS Theory Stack Exchange.) If you know that 3-COL is NPC then you can prove that PLANAR 3-COL is NPC by a NICE gadget...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Tech Trend
Data will be a defining Tech Trend. Based on several trips I took in December to clients, it is clear that companies are looking for ways to leverage their huge...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Science Orphans
I had a conversation with one one of the senior managers of the FIRST Lego League challenge. FIRST Lego League or FLL is a robot related competition for students...
From My Biased Coin
Pointer, to Cash for Citations
I'm disturbed to find that nobody is offering to pay me large sums just to have me affiliated with them for the purposes of raising their citation count. WhatCrooked...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Maps of science
In Flowingdata: An interesting map that shows the interrelationships of scientific fields based on published papers. This kind of visualization is more useful for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Changing our Relationhip with Technology
Will AI do this?. An Intel director comments. Yes I have believed that since our work in the area in the 80s. It is a matter of timing. We were too optimistic...
From Schneier on Security
Allocating Security Resources to Protect Critical Infrastructure
Alan T. Murray and Tony H. Grubesic, "Critical Infrastructure Protection: The Vulnerability Conundrum," Telematics & Informatics, 29 (February 2012): 56
From Putting People First
More than money
It’s increasingly clear that we live in collaborative times. Many of the most interesting innovations of recent years have at their heart ideas of sharing, bartering...
From Schneier on Security
Applying Game Theory to Cyberattacks and Defenses
Behzad Zare Moayedi, Mohammad Abdollahi Azgomi, "A Game Theoretic Framework for Evaluation of the Impacts of Hackers Diversity on Security Measures," Reliability...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 02 January 2012
Happy New Year! My best wishes for a healthy, happy and prosperous New Year to all my readers. Today is technically the last day of y vacation. Back to a full day...
From Putting People First