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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 U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of December 12
December 14 Hearing: The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology of the House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a hearing on ICANN’s top-level domain...
From Apophenia
Four Difficult Questions Regarding Bullying and Youth Suicide
Over the last couple of years, I’ve laid awake at night asking myself uncomfortable questions about bullying and teen suicide. I don’t have answers to most of the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Game Changing Presentations: Prezi
I was reminded of the Prezi presentation system by a link Jerry Michalski sent me today. It is an interesting, Cloud based, unique method to construct visualizations...
From Computational Complexity
Is this problem too hard for a HS Math Competition
The Univ of MD HS Math Competition has two parts. Part I is 25 multiple choice questions in 2 hours (4 points for a correct answer, -2 for an incorrect answer)....
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Highlights: Predicting Hurricanes, Visualizing Research, and Perceiving Leaning
A series of computing research advances making the news in the past week: A New Forecasting Algorithm to Predict Hurricane Intensity and Wind Speed Scientists at...
From Schneier on Security
First-Person Account of a TSA Airport Screener
This is a few years old, but I seem not to have blogged it before.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 12 December 2012
Last week I posted a list of some of the great computer science related blogs I read on a regular basis (Computer Science Education Blog Roll) Week after week these...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Qualcomm Sends Medical Data to the Cloud
This relates to an effort I am currently examining from a business analytics angle:" ... A plan to send medical data to the cloud.Some 133 million Americans suffer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Car as a Platform
A Tablet integrated into a car. Revolutionary, or just dangerous? Renault has launched what it describes as a
From The Eponymous Pickle
More on the Kahn Academy in Higher Education
This remains a very interesting approach to providing educational snippets to all:As a fledgling voice of reform in higher education, Salman Khan is an oddity....
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Problem with Requirements
From Business Genetics. The Problem with Requirements AKA the Requirements of the Problem. by David McGinness. '... Too often companies make large investments...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mind Map Library
I mentioned the oddly named Biggerplate some time ago. A repository of thousands of mind maps that you can access freely, then edit and use for your own purposes...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting links 11 December 2011
Last week I posted a list of some of the great computer science related blogs I read on a regular basis (Computer Science Education Blog Roll) Week after week these...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Breakthroughs in Learning Algorithms
In CACM: Some technical notes on a 'Terascale' learning algorithm. Pointed at new sources of very big data. Learning is the very crux of artificial intelligence...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovation is Everyone's Job
I think this is very obvious. But it is up to the enterprise to establish the right context to produce innovation. Context based on the company's goals, and the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Institute of General Semantics
Discovered. This is not about computational semantics, the form I have most often encountered, but behavior. Worth knowing about. " ... The Institute of....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neuro-Semiotics Applied
My former colleague J Duncan Berry is interviewed about Neuro-Semiotics. A topic he introduced me to. See also his site. He describes himself as a ' ......
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Scientists Needed
Not unexpected, with more data being gathered than ever before, sensors becoming common, and business analytics leveraging this data towards business leverage,More...
From The Eponymous Pickle