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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 Eponymous Pickle
Slogans vs Logos
Penn's always interesting language log blog has an interesting post about how while verbal slogans can be resisted as a form of meme, logos and graphical formsThe...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Sock Monkey and Computer Science Advocacy Specialists
The CSTA Computer Science Advocacy Specialists play a huge role in advocating for K-12 computer science education at the state and national level. Here is Sock...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Empower Media Marketing to Acquire MIG
I have mentioned Market Intelligence Group here a number of times. More companies should be using their analytical methods. Now they are being acquired by Empower...
From Schneier on Security
Hacking Lotteries
Two items on hacking lotteries. The first is about someone who figured out how to spot winner in a scratch-of tic-tac-toe style game, and a daily draw style game...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Gigabit in the Home
We’ve covered the US Ignite and Gig.U initiatives on this blog over the course of the past few months, and now we’ve been pointed to a great video that explains...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Becoming Acquainted with Data
Stephen Few on on becoming acquainted with a dataset for the first time. Nicely done, this was a situation I often encountered and simple visualization was the...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Crackers are Evil
Recently a friend of mine, Vicki Davis, received a pre-publication copy of the new book by Kevin Mitnick the famous cracker. Vicki wrote here review of the book...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Back to School Tablet Sales
Forbes suggests that tablet sales will boom with the new school year. Not unexpected, but I still think that laptops are today still more versatile, and tablets...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook Analytics Tool
A new Facebook Analytic tool of interest. ...PageLever shows impressions (any time a story loads in a browser whether on your page or not) for any date range,...
From Schneier on Security
New Information on the Inventor of the One-Time Pad
Seems that the one-time pad was not first invented by Vernam: He could plainly see that the document described a technique called the one-time pad fully 35 years...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
DoD Enters National Robotics Initiative
Back in mid-June, we noted the President’s announcement of a $70 million National Robotics Initiative (NRI) — a multi-agency investment spanning the NSF, NIH, NASA...
From Computational Complexity
If I was a tweeter (is that a word?)
Since Lance is not tweeting this week, I will take up the slack. So, here is my once-in-a-while post If I tweeted AND if tweets didn't have to be so short, here...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
mHealth Winter Institute Announced
The NIH has just announced a Mobile Health Winter Institute — to be held in conjunction with the 2011 mHealth Summit in Washington, DC, in early December. Applications...
From The Eponymous Pickle
QR Code Mistakes
Good Mashable piece on the use of QR codes. A useful quick read for anyone considering a QR code based promotion idea.
From Schneier on Security
Identifying People by their Writing Style
The article is in the context of the big Facebook lawsuit, but the part about identifying people by their writing style is interesting: Recently, a team of computer...
From Putting People First
Ezio Manzini on the economics of design for social innovation
Sarah Brooks of Shareable has just published the second part of her interview with the Italian design strategist Ezio Manzini, who is one of the world
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson