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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 U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of July 4
July 7 Hearing: The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will hold a hearing on cybersecurity threats and threat assessment.
From Wild WebMink
? Brazil Signs Up To Develop Office Suites
At FISL in Brazil last week, I had the opportunity to speak as the co-presenter in a session about the evolution of OpenOffice.org – I think there will eventually...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Proof You Don't Need to Stick to Just MS Office for Arts and Social Science Students
My arts and social science students expected a relatively easy class that mostly taught them the ins and outs of Microsoft Office software. They were probablypushed...
From Putting People First
Niti Bhan on emerging markets tech event in East Africa
Niti Bhan, the emerging markets strategy specialist, went to Kenya to participate in the Pivot 25 conference and wrote this guest contribution on her experience...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Intelligence for Small Companies
Agree that today there are many options for using BI tools and applying them to the needs of enterprises large and small.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CISE Releases Core Program Solicitations
Just a heads up that NSF’s CISE Directorate has issued solicitations for its core programs: Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF) — Algorithmic Foundations...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Azore Garage
About helping the inside Entrepreneur. I thought of myself as this kind of operator for years and here is a startup devoted to them. " ... The azore garage was...
From Schneier on Security
Man Flies with Someone Else's Ticket and No Legal ID
Last week, I got a bunch of press calls about Olajide Oluwaseun Noibi, who flew from New York to Los Angeles using an expired ticket in someone else's name andmakes...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
A Post BASIC World?
What does is mean to be in a post BASIC world? This is the question that comes to mine when I read about an article titled How are students learning programming...
From Putting People First
How computers can cure cultural diabetes
Peter Lunenfeld (wikipedia), professor in the Design | Media Arts department at UCLA, argues in a New Scientist op-ed piece for the importance of what he calls...
From Putting People First
Alone together
MIT technology and society specialist Professor Sherry Turkle presents – during a June 1 talk at the RSA in London – the results of a fifteen year exploration of...
From Putting People First
The iPad as support for people with disabilities
The Apple tablet is helping people with disabilities by reading e-mails, voicing directions, and zooming in on text. “Apple has added features that make the iPhone...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Making Changes in Response to Student Complaints
It is summer and time to reflect upon the past school year. Course evaluations are in, and provided some interesting insight into how my students perceived my class...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Inside AR 2011
Junaio reports from the Augmented Reality 2011 Conference. A useful update of what is going on in augmented reality. Includes a new linkage to the Google Places...
From The Eponymous Pickle
First Annual Neuromarketing Awards
The IPG Media Lab and Affectiva Announce Winners of First Annual Neuromarketing AwardsCANNES, France, June 24, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Mediabrands' IPG Media Lab and...
From Wild WebMink
? TAPped Out
If you don’t like whingeing by frequent fliers, skip this post! I spent all day Tuesday travelling back from Brazil on TAP. Having taken four flights with them...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 5 July 2011
Wow! What a week it has been. I came home from ISTE in time for the Fourth of July holiday. I
From The Eponymous Pickle
Coworking vs Working from a Coffee Shop
Working locations for startups and consulting, after the Wifi is established.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Eric Lander and Larry Summers Talk Innovation, R&D
At the Brookings Institution last week, Larry Summers, former head of the National Economic Council, and Eric Lander, co-chair of the President’s Council of Advisors...
From Computational Complexity