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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 Michael Nielsen
Awesome grants
Beginning this month, every month the Toronto Awesome Foundation will give away $1,000 for someone to do something that
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reality is Broken
Just brought to my attention: Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World: by Jane McGonigal. Saw some interesting things she...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What Sort of Games Are In The Imagine Cup?
I get asked about what sort of games people create as part of the Microsoft Imagine Cup Game division. People look for ideas of what students are capable of doing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wolfram Alpha API
Interesting, technical discussion of Wolfram Alpha's API. Dealing in particular with its openness.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Blogs
ReadWriteWeb presents some links about blogs that discuss data. Some I had not seen yet.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Disconnect Between Intelligence and Analytics
The disconnect between intelligence and analytics? " .... Being analytics savvy is no longer an option for most businesses but a matter of survival. If a company...
From Schneier on Security
Blowfish in Good Time Max
This screen shot is from the movie "Good Time Max." 17 minutes and 52 seconds into the movie, it shows Blowfish being used as an encryption algorithm.
From Wild WebMink
Procurement and Indemnity
Legacy procurement rules that insist on indemnity from open source subscription suppliers are an unnecessary barrier to open source adoption. Read about this on...
From Schneier on Security
Cyberwar is Overhyped
A new report from the OECD says the threat of cyberwar has been grossly exaggerated. (Hey, that's what I said.) There are lots of news articles. Also worth...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Teach Me How to Research
How many of you were formally taught how to research? I'm guessing that for many of you, like me, there was never a class or workshop available to show you howWho...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
R Waldo Roth
Computer science education in 1972 was a lot different from what it is today. Back then most computers were huge, expensive, intimidating and kept locked away in...
From Schneier on Security
The Legality of the Certificate Authority Trust Model
Interesting research: We looked at the standard legal documents issued by the certificate authorities or "CAs," including exemplar Subscriber Agreements (agreements...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Launching Groupon Competitor
Mashable reports that Google is about to launch a Groupon competitor. A pretty obvious direction, finally happening. More detail at link.
From The Eponymous Pickle
ACM Tech Packs: Cloud Computing
I see that the Association of Computing Machinery has created a concept they call Tech Packs. You have to be a member of ACM to get access to these. Most recently...
From The Eponymous Pickle
B2B vs B2C Marketing
Paul Gillin posts on how B2B abd B2C Marketing differ. He also covers this in his new book: Social Marketing to the Business Customer. You can download a free...
From Schneier on Security
Cost-Benefit Analysis of Full-Body Scanners
Research paper from Mark Stewart and John Mueller: The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has been deploying Advanced Imaging Technologies (AIT) that...
From Computational Complexity
Does Tiger Woods know what Venn Diagram is?
In prior blogs I noted that the terms Turing Test and Prisoner's Dilemma have been used in articles for non-math people. In the age of Google people can look...
From Computer Science Teachers Association