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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
ScriptTD: Tower Defense Game Creation Made Easy
Coding a game from scratch is hard. Make no mistake about there is a lot to it. OF course many people, especially students, think they are all ready to create the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fusion Tables
Had completely missed this idea in Google Docs: Fusion Tables. " ... a new option in Google Docs: creating tables. It seems that Google Docs started to integrate...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Open Badges
A clever, simple idea that also depends much on how it is implemented. An open infrastructure that is all about delivering badges for acquiring skills. Much...
From Schneier on Security
New Lows in Secret Questions
I've already written about secret questions, the easier-to-guess low-security backup password that sites want you to have in case you forget your harder-to-remember...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Single Molecule Motor
One of the great accomplishments of the 19th century was the electric motor. Converting electrical energy to controllable mechanical energy. Now a single molecule...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Junk Charts Again
In Junk Charts they illustrate one of my favorite examples of poor data visualization. It is the use of bar charts without using scales that start at zero. This...
From The Noisy Channel
Attention CMU Students!
As many of you know, I’m a proud alumnus of the CMU School of Computer Science
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Blogger Interface
This is now live. Have not tried it yet, but plan to. Need a reworking of my blog format and capabilities.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Grow from Within
Grow from Within: Mastering Corporate Entrepreneurship and Innovation by Robert Wolcott and Michael Lippitz. Now on my stack of things to read. Recently heard...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Using R for Big Data
Some excellent examples of the use of the Statistical/visualization/data mining language R for a number of real applications. Have started to use it more myself...
From Computational Complexity
Next in the sequence
When I posted on sequence problems here some people said that they did not have unique answers. Many problems FORMALLY do not have a unique answer, but common sense...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics for Neuromarketing
In Mediapost: More must be more done to quantify how neuromarketing results are used. What are useful metrics?
From Geeking with Greg
Blending machines and humans to get very high accuracy
A paper by six Googlers from the recent KDD 2011 conference, "Detecting Adversarial Advertisements in the Wild" (PDF) is a broadly useful example of how to succeed...
From Schneier on Security
The Legality of Government Critical Infrastructure Monitoring
Mason Rice, Robert Miller, and Sujeet Shenoi (2011), "May the US Government Monitor Private Critical Infrastructure Assets to Combat Foreign Cyberspace Threats?...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Game Papers at SIGGRAPH 2011 (Part 1 of 2)
Following up on my general impressions of SIGGRAPH I wanted to write about a few of the games paper presentations I enjoyed seeing at the conference. I paid most...
From Schneier on Security
Outing a CIA Agent
Interesting article on how difficult it is to keep an identity secret in the information age.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Windows Phone Mango Jump Start Workshop Now On Video
IF you missed it live (like I did) you can now view the recording of the Windows Phone Mango Jump Start training on Channel 9. I borrowed these direct links from...
From Putting People First
Stanford U: Introduction to human-computer interaction design
Through Stanford University lectures and a project, coordinated by Scott Klemmer, learn the fundamentals of human-computer interaction and design thinking. The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brandwashed Videos
A couple of videos sent to me that illustrate the topics in Martin Lindstrom's forthcoming book: Brandwashed: Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson