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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 Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
When Fish Fly
How excited am I about the Partners in Learning Global Forum? I
From Wild WebMink
Think Before You Give!
Should You Donate To Open Source Projects? Donating money to your favourite open source project may not be the first thing you should do. Support the sources of...
From My Biased Coin
Set Competition
As an applied probability exercise, I had my class compute empirically the probability of a game failing on the nth round for the game of Set. (See my previous...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Games as a Great Starting Point
I'm always looking for new ways to start off my computer science and robotics classes. It used to be that every intro class started off with a "Hello World" program...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tablets Likely to Come Out After Dark
New statistics reported on tablet use. I would agree, I often use tablets as a 'second screen' as an auxiliary information device for TV or Radio. Can that fact...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovation by Embracing Failure
In the WSJ: A friend sends me a good article on how companies are addressing risk aversion in edgy economic times. Includes mention of outright rewards for disclosed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Text Analytics for Legacy BI
Always interesting Doug Lautzenheiser discusses in his business intelligence blog the use of text analytics techniques to search code libraries in enterprises for...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
When Fish Fly
How excited am I about the Partners in Learning Global Forum? I’m seriously thinking of taking vacation days and paying my own way to Washington DC to see if IInnovative...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hotels Becoming More Social
As frequent travelers we participated in brainstorming sessions for several large hotel chains five years ago. We leveraged our expertise in in-context innovation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Will Gaming and Advertising Overlap?
A response by two young CEOs in FastCompany. It has become a point of contention recently. My answer: In a way that they will produce value for companies.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computing Researchers Among Presidential Early Career Awardees
Yesterday, the White House named
From Schneier on Security
Problems with Mac OS X Lion Passwords
Seems like some dumb mistakes. News article.
From Putting People First
Low2No Camp: entrepreneurial ideas to activate Low2No vision
Article by Experientia collaborator Irene Cassarino, with additional input from Jan-Christoph Zoels. How do you create community services and business models...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Robotics @ Home Competition
The Microsoft Robotics team has released a new software stack for controlling robots
From Putting People First
From mass consumerism to mass change: Hope for sustainable consumption
In an article for Shareable, Caren Holzman presents trends that signal “a reversal in the way that consumers value and use products and services”: “A global culture...
From Putting People First
Invigorating education with technology
Techcrunch reports on a recent set of rapid-fire presentations from Imagine K12, an incubator for education-related startups. On the one hand, the innovation taking...
From Putting People First
The end of motoring
Highly recommended read in The Guardian on the end of the golden age of motoring (or for non-Brits: car travel): “The most radical change [according to German entrepreneur...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Interdisciplinary Computing
Lisa C. Kaczmarczyk writes the Interdisciplinary computing blog. I have mentioned this effort before, but have just revisited it before meeting with her. The...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Data Mining for Global Change: Furthering Science, Knowledge
The following is a special contribution to this blog by Karsten
From The Eponymous Pickle