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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 Teachers Association
Competitions Spark Fires of CS Enthusiasm
Students love competitions! * Show off their skills * Earn public recognition for their work * Collaborate with other students * Solve deep and typically meaningful...
From Wild WebMink
? Drinks With ForgeRock at OSCON
Will you be in Portland (the one in Oregon in the USA) next week?
From Schneier on Security
Liars and Outliers Cover
My new book, Liars and Outliers, has a cover. Publication is still scheduled for the end of February -- in time for the RSA Conference -- assuming I finish the...
From My Biased Coin
Rabin's 80th Birthday Celebration
Big announcement: We'll be having an 80th birthday conference celebration for Michael Rabin at Harvard at the end of August. Lots of great talks by big-name CS...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Games Talk: Serious Play
I will be giving a talk this Wednesday July 20, at 6:30 PM in the Cincinnati area on the use of serious game mechanics. Providing details of a number of examples...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Featured in 'Women In Tech You Need To Follow On Twitter '
On Friday evening, I was surprised to open my email after only a few hours and find that I had over 100 unread messages. For someone who almost always hasinbox...
From The Eponymous Pickle
eLearning and Serious Games
Heather Thomas at the Trivantis blog has posted a good article on the use of game mechanics for eLearning. Making learning immediately rewarding and inspiring...
From Computational Complexity
Disproofing the Myth that many early logicians were a few axioms short of a complete set
While I was working on this post another blogger posted on the same topic here and I found a book review of Logicomix that touched on some of the same issues here...
From Schneier on Security
British Phone Hacking Scandal
Ross Anderson discusses the technical and policy details.
From Putting People First
CHI Sparks conference
On June 23, CHI Netherlands organised Chi Sparks, its bi-annual conference, and the keynote videos are now available. The theme of this year
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links Post 18 July 2011
Quite a week last week. You may have read my posts about the CSTA CS & IT Conference. I hope you did because it was a great conference. The first ever WorldWide...
From The Eponymous Pickle
In Analytics Magazine
Some good examples from the latest issue of this excellent magazine. About solving real business problems in business. Check out the magazine and the underlying...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smartphone Forensics
It is remarkable what can be determined from information that is stored on your smartphone. Not only where you are but lots of information about what you are doing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More on Google and the Brain
A good post in Mind Hacks commenting on the Google and the brain study I also noted recently. Knowing you have something at your fingertips does not mean than...
From The Noisy Channel
Guest Post: Diego Basch on The Need for Speed
Diego Basch is the CEO and founder of IndexTank, a hosted search service that powers major web sites such as Reddit, Twitvid, blip.tv, as well as providing a WordPress...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Mining Health Data, 140 Characters at a Time
Imagine you’re at the CDC, and you’re trying to predict and respond to this year’s flu season in real-time. You could either contact millions of Americans — or...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Counting the Internet of Things
We continue to look at how things, in addition to people, now reside identified on the network. Trackable, queriable and countable. GigaOM Infographic says among...
From Putting People First
Talk to Me
In her New York Times review of Talk to Me (online journal), the latest exhibition by Paola Antonelli at the MoMA, Alice Rawsthorn describes what could be considered...
From The Eponymous Pickle
KTM Advance - Games and e-Learning
Newly discovered, KTM-Advance, E-Learning and serious games. Have been examining that aspect of games recently. In particular regarding sales training. Appears...
From Putting People First