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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 Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Kodu Kamp for Educators
OK so you know I am a big fan of Kodu. Perhaps you read about the Kodu workshop I did for students last weekend. Perhaps you just heard about Kodu from some random...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tableau 6 Includes What-If Modeling
The newest verison of Tableau 6, now in beta, has the ability to create variables for use in your analysis. We call these parameters, and they open up new possibilities...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stealing Your Reality
Can your behavior on social netowrking sites be stolen and your 'reality' stolen? I know that reality can be augmented, even replaced by being made virtual, but...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tragedy of the Commons
I looked up the concept of 'Tragedy of the Commons' concept recently to get additional historical information about the topic. . Found that the Wikipedia has....
From Schneier on Security
Picking a Single Voice out of a Crowd
Interesting new technology. Squarehead's new system is like bullet-time for sound. 325 microphones sit in a carbon-fiber disk above the stadium, and a wide-angle...
From Computational Complexity
How hard is this problem?- I ask this non-rhetorically
I recently saw the following puzzle: Which two numbers come at the end of this sequence? (That is, what are x and y?) 2,4,5,30,32,34,36,40,42,44,46,50,52,54...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-10-14
FLOSS Weekly 139: Alfresco It was a long session, but the conversation flowed between me, John Newton and Luis Sala of Alfresco and FLOSS Weekly anchor Randal Schwartz...
From Schneier on Security
Pen-and-Paper SQL Injection Attack Against Swedish Election
Some copycat imitated this xkcd cartoon in Sweden, hand writing an SQL injection attack onto a paper ballot. Even though the ballot was manually entered into the...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What does your school need?
The What Our School Needs contest is being run by the Bing team at Microsoft. You are using Bing for your Internet search needs right? Well even if not (and you...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Sharing Between CPG and Retail
Data sharing between retailers and manufacturers have been done for a long time. Here is an example of the process between Food Lion and Kraft.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Inside the Mind of the Shopper
I have had a chance to re-examine Herb Sorensen's book from last year, and his supporting site that contains articles about some of the concepts included. Also,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
LinkedIn's New Lab
ReadwriteWeb writes about Linkedn's new lab. Says it has meager pickings for the average user. LinkedIn is a resume mill that is no longer possible to ignore. ...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Can you trust fixed-bit computer arithmetic?
Suppose that you have 10 pictures, and all lined up, they take 100 pixels. Is it safe to say that each picture has a width of x pixels if 10 x = 100? We all know...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Creative Labs
A slideshow from Google Creative Labs. " ... interesting HTML5 apps, iPhone apps, visualization tools, 3D projections, art projects, creative YouTube videos,...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Recruiting: Lessons for a CSTA Chapter
As we started the new school year, our small group of five (three college and two high school educators) is entering round two of starting a CSTA chapter. We created...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Store Brands Here to Stay
Overview of Deloitte study on store brands in Progressive Grocer: " ... In a Deloitte study, 80% of consumer respondents said they think most store brands are...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Embedded Phenomena, Augmented Reality, and Education
I love it when something so simple is so effective. Tom Moher's 2006 paper [ACM, CiteSeer] describing his work on what he calls Embedded Phenomena was a case of...
From Computational Complexity
Two Candidates for an Ig Noble in Mathematics
(This is a sequel to my post on the Ig Nobel Prize.) Two candidates for an Ig Nobel prizes in Mathematics. They deserve it for opposite reasons. (They are old...
From The Eponymous Pickle