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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
Learning in a Virtual Environment
In Chief Learning Officer, a blog that has been including some very useful content lately. " ... Virtual learning has pros and cons, but with proper design and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
E-Book Sales Triple
A report that e-Book sales in the US are overtaking paper.
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Brief History of the Internet and it's Future
20th Annual E. Leonard Arnoff Memorial Lectureon the Practice of Management Science
From Computer Science Teachers Association
What the Future Holds
Recently I had an opportunity to attend the Tapia Conference and an interesting keynote given by Irving Wladawsky-Berger which provided interesting food for thought...
From Schneier on Security
"Schneier's Law"
Back in 1998, I wrote: Anyone, from the most clueless amateur to the best cryptographer, can create an algorithm that he himself can't break. In 2004, Cory Doctorow...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shopping Companion
Just started taking a look at Myshopanion. An IPhone App that has just been updated. They write: " ... we have mastered the latest mobile shoppingconcepts
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
CRA-W Grad Cohort: Non-academic Career Paths
Becoming a professor isn't the only option after getting your PhD. There are plenty of non-academic options in both research and non-research areas. Take a look...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Progressive Grocers Using Analytics
Alison Bolen at SASCom writes about some examples they heard about how grocers are using data intense analytical methods.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google PageRank Overview
A good general overview of Google PageRank from the Search Engine Watch blog.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
A Federal Health IT Strategic Plan
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) — which last year announced
From Schneier on Security
Unanticipated Security Risk of Keeping Your Money in a Home Safe
In Japan, lots of people -- especially older people -- keep their life savings in cash in their homes. (The country's banks pay very low interest rates, so the...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Kinect For Windows is Coming
You know you want it. Ever since the Kinect was announced back when it was code-named Project Natal you know you were thinking
From The Noisy Channel
Social Utility, +/- 25%
I like Google… I’ve been a regular Google user since the day I first discovered its existence in 1999. Indeed, I’ve consistently found Google to be the most useful...
From Wild WebMink
? Going To OSCON
I just got a very welcome e-mail – an acceptance for my talk at OSCON in Portland this July. I’ll be speaking on Thursday morning, on this subject: Most open source...
From The Eponymous Pickle
College Librarians Warm up to Wikipedia
From Inside Higher Ed: In recent weeks I have been asked by several people about the validity of using Wikipedia links for research, both inside a company and...
From Computational Complexity
Going off topic in class: I think it worked--- this time
Recently I went off topic in a class. I think it was okay but I want YOUR thoughts. On Monday I defined Primitive Recursive functions showed them that addition...
From The Eponymous Pickle