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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 Computing Community Consortium Blog
Robot Baseball:
Presidents, performers, athletes, public servants — and now “Philliebot”? That’s right — a one-armed, three-wheeled robot that can control the speed and direction...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neuroscience Impact on Market Research
Excellent Article on Neuroscience Impact on Market Research Industry, via Ron Wright, CEO of Sands's Research. He writes: " ... Thought you might find this article...
From Schneier on Security
Large-Scale Food Theft
A criminal gang is stealing truckloads of food: Late last month, a gang of thieves stole six tractor-trailer loads of tomatoes and a truck full of cucumbers from...
From Schneier on Security
Costs of Security
Interesting blog post on the security costs for the $50B Air Force bomber program -- estimated to be $8B. This isn't all computer security, but the original article...
From My Biased Coin
Harvard CS -- Growth in Women Majors
Some good news for us. With the growth in our introductory course, more women are declaring Computer Science as their concentration. And we seem to be growing...
From Putting People First
What can be done to make S.T.U.P.I.D. users S.M.A.R.T?
Stephen Turbek, Executive Director of User Experience at Morgan Stanley in New York, thinks the question whether users are smart or stupid, is really irrelevant...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Learning With Visualizations
A picture is worth a thousand words so what is a video worth? Add some music and off you go reaching today
From Putting People First
How smartphones can improve public transit
An interesting study of commuters in Boston and San Francisco found people are more willing to ride the bus or train when they have tools to manage their commutes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dynamic Ticket Pricing
Ticketmaster had decided to start dynamically adjust the prices of tickets it sells, depending on demand. This in theory will address the ticket scalping seen...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Towards the Retail Genome: More on Wal-Mart and Kosmix
In Datawocky: On Teasing Patterns from Data, with Applications to Search, Social Media, and Advertising, Anand of Kosmix writes: " ... At Kosmix, we
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tablets at Your Restaurant Seat
In Mashable: About the use of tablets in commercial applications, such as on restaurant tables. There seems to be much interest. We experimented with similar...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Administration Issues National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace
Last Friday the Obama Administration released its National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC), a plan to leverage private sector tools to make...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brain Computer Phone Interface
Brain interfaces for computers and phones have been around for some time, but we have yet to see ones that are convenient, reliable and accurate enough to makeScientists...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Candidate: Gail Chapman
Last weekend I had the privilege to spend time with a young Latina woman, Jessica, who is currently a junior in high school, enrolled in the CS 1 course at her...
From Computational Complexity
Choosing an Undergrad School
It is the time of year in the US that high school students have found out what schools have accepted them and now have to decide where to spend the next four years...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart buys Kosmix
Wal-Mart makes an interesting move into social media with the acquisition of Kosmix. " ... According to sources close to the situation, Wal-Mart Stores paid just...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Launches Photosynth
We examined the use of the MS package mobile Photosynth for producing panoramas of multiple images. See the link for a stitched view of Seattle Japanese gardens...
From Wild WebMink
? Sweetness and Strength
Is Sugar Toxic? “I have eliminated refined sugar from my diet and eat as little as I possibly can,
From Schneier on Security
Software as Evidence
Increasingly, chains of evidence include software steps. It's not just the RIAA suing people -- and getting it wrong -- based on automatic systems to detect and...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson