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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 Daniel Lemire's Blog
Pick one: determinism or fairness
Computers changed our life drastically in the last few decades. Correspondingly, I view the world in terms of algorithms. When I think of how the government works...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Exploring Collaborative Opportunities for Students
Recently, Stephanie Hoeppner, CSTA Ohio Vice President, and I met with Dr. Rob Williams at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, near Fairborn, Ohio, to learn about...
From Computational Complexity
What is a simple function?
In my discrete Math course I asked the following question: For each of the following sequences find a simple function a(n) such that the sequence is a(1), a(2)...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
20 Years Later,
In a Comment in the Aug. 4 issue of Nature — coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the public release of the World Wide Web –
From Schneier on Security
Business Week on The Cyberwar Arms Race
I've been using the phrase "arms race" to describe the world's militaries' rush into cyberspace for a couple of years now. Here's a good article on the topic that...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 8 August 2011
I’m home for a while now. A month anyway. I’ve made 6 trips in the last 6 weeks and only one of them for vacation. So it will be nice to be home for a while. Maybe...
From Wild WebMink
OSCON Round-Up
My time in the US was all-consuming, as you may have noticed by the absence of posts for the last week. I’m ending the hiatus with a long review of OSCON – you’ll...
From The Noisy Channel
Retiring a Great Interview Problem
Interviewing software engineers is hard. Jeff Atwood bemoans how difficult it is to find candidates who can write code. The tech press sporadically publishes “best”...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Book Store Fees
In the future will we all be paying fees for bookstore admission? Is the unsustainable future of all physical retail simply to have a place where we will browse...
From Apophenia
I do not speak for my employer.
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry when people imply that when I make arguments, I’m speaking on behalf of Microsoft. Anyone who knows me knows that my opinions...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Advice for Beginning Graphic Facilitators
David Sibbet posts a piece on starting the process of graphic facilitation. It is a powerful method we often used. I found it hard to do myself, even after going...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Collaborative Search: SearchTeam
I wrote a note about Zakta's new Collaborative Search Tool: SearchTeam back in mid July. Wanted to repeat that as I start to take a yet deeper dive look at the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G a Supply Chain Leader
In The Financial Times: Procter works very hard on supply chain improvement. . Note that P&G is the only 'old world' non tech company in the top three. I highly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Supermarkets
I have spent some time over the years looking at how to build virtual retail spaces, everywhere from the classic local grocery store to large hypermarkets, to the...
From Putting People First
Designing for a workforce that acts more sustainably
In a six part article series Gerd Waloszek of SAP User Experience [who is very inspired by Nathan Shedroff's latest book 'Design is the Problem'] approaches the...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computational Tales
I recently found out (thanks to the SIGCSE mailing list) that Dr. Jeremy Kubica, software engineer and manager at Google, has been putting together a set of examples...
From Putting People First
The web brings people together and keeps us sociable, not lonely
The commonly held belief that the internet is turning an entire generation into solitary web-junkies is a myth, according to new research. In a paper to be presented...
From Putting People First
Storytelling in the digital age
Digital technology allows us to tell tales in innovative new ways. As the tools available to publishers grow more sophisticated, it’s up to us, writes Aleks Krotoski...
From The Eponymous Pickle