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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 The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computer Scientist Among 2011 MacArthur Fellows
Congratulations to Shwetak Patel, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington, who has just...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Eye Tracking for the iPad
A useful development reported in AdAge. GazeHawk Brings Eye-Tracking Technology to the iPad. Heatmaps Could Help Tablet Publishers and Advertisers. Yes, this...
From Putting People First
EPIC 2011 draft proceedings available for download
The draft proceedings of EPIC 2011, the Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference, currently taking place in Boulder, CO, USA, are available for download during...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Marketing in Korea
In the Korea Herald: A general article in English on mobile and virtual retail developments in Korea. We looked to Korea for its forward looking understanding...
From The Eponymous Pickle
MS Robotic Studio
We examined a number of robotics solution for home solutions. In IEEE Spectrum: Microsoft Releases Robotics Developer Studio 4 Beta, New Robot Platform. " .....
From The Eponymous Pickle
What is RFID?
I have given many talks on the nature and usefulness of Radio Frequency Identification. (RFID) I see today there is an article on RFID Journal about its nature...
From Putting People First
Behavioural insights could save millions of pounds
Using behavioural insights could save taxpayers hundreds of millions of pounds over the course of the [UK] Parliament and thousands of lives a year, according to...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Calling for Proposals: Envisioning Frontiers of Computing Research
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) — a standing committee of CRA that seeks to catalyze and empower the computing research community to pursue audacious,...
From My Biased Coin
Guest Post on NYCE (Giorgos Zervas)
GUEST POST by GIORGOS ZERVAS I was at NYCE 2011 this past Friday. It was a thoroughly enjoyable and productive experience. I feel like I got a conference's worth...
From Wild WebMink
? Tricks
The special trick that helps identify dodgy stats I’d heard of Benford’s Law before, but it was a timely reminder. There are quite a few banks of data that it would...
From Schneier on Security
Complex Electronic Banking Fraud in Malaysia
The interesting thing about this attack is how it abuses a variety of different security systems. Investigations revealed that the syndicate members had managed...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 20 September 2011
I really had to post the information about the new Game development course yesterday (Game Development with XNA Curriculum
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 20 September 2011
I really had to post the information about the new Game development course yesterday (Game Development with XNA Curriculum–Semester Course). I’m pretty excitedImagine...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Equity-Based Teaching Practices
As we embark on the school year, creating an equitable classroom environment is important for supporting girls and other underrepresented groups in a positive learning...
From Geeking with Greg
Quick links
Some of what has caught my attention recently:"60 percent of Netflix views are a result of Netflix's personalized recommendations" and "35 percent of [Amazon] product...
From Schneier on Security
Pretty Creepy Type of Cyberstalking
Luis "Guicho" Mijangos, "sextortionist."
From The Eponymous Pickle
Optimizing Knowledge Yield in the Workplace
Mark Montgomery of KYield, writes about Optimizing Knowledge Yield in the Digital Workplace . Some very important topics. I am currently in the process of trying...
From The Eponymous Pickle