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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 Putting People First
Danah Boyd: Smartest 'Tech' Academic
The smartest “tech” academic according to Fortune Magazine (“The smartest people in tech”) is Danah Boyd, Social Media Researcher, Microsoft Research. “She is the...
From Schneier on Security
Detecting Cheating at Colleges
The measures used to prevent cheating during tests remind me of casino security measures: No gum is allowed during an exam: chewing could disguise a student
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA) Certifications
This week Microsoft announced a new set of entry level certifications that may be of interest to many schools and colleges/universities. Personally I think that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Maga Design Group
I was recently pointed to Maga Design Group. Clever and interesting design maps. See their site for more information. They also have a blog: " ... Our visual...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Technological and Societal Trends
I’m trying to compile a list of major technological and societal trends that influence computing research.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
What Now in Instruction-Level Parallelism Research?
A workshop entitled “What Now in Instruction-Level Parallelism Research?” will be held on September 20-21, 2010 in Seattle, WA.
From Schneier on Security
The Toronto 18
Long and interesting article from The Toronto Star on the Toronto 18, a terrorist cell arrested in 2006. Lots of stuff in this article I had not read before....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cyberwar Overhyped
Well known security analyst and writer Bruce Schneier writes that the idea of cyberwar has been greatly overhyped.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Eyeglass Mounted Augmented Reality
The idea of having visuals presented on eyeglasses is not new. I have mentioned here a number of examples of our maintenance applications that used this idea. Here...
From Computational Complexity
Conflicts of Interest
a conflict-of-interest? Some thoughts. Thought One PROF: I can't vote on Professor X's Full Prof case since I have a conflict. CHAIRMAN: (There areThought...
From Schneier on Security
Surveillance and Morality
"Does Surveillance Make Us Morally Better?": Conclusion The upshot of these reflections is that the relation between surveillance and moral edification is complicated...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shared Services
A Baseline article on Shared Services Organizations at Procter & Gamble. Have seen little written about these and how they are run. I was a member of one at P&G...
From Putting People First
Video interviews with Dan Ariely and Clay Shirky
Big Think is an online think tank, founded in 2007, that presents video interviews with major intellectuals from a wide range of fields. Recent interviews that...
From Putting People First
Sensemaking
Jon Kolko was one of the speakers yesterday at the Design Research Society conference in Montreal, Canada. His presentation addressed Sensemaking – the manner in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
MRI Scanning Worlds
This article in Mind Hacks hit home, last year I experienced an MRI scan myself. For medical and not for marketing purposes. It was an other worldly, claustrophobic...
From The Noisy Channel
Paul Adams
This presentation by Paul Adams, lead for User Research for Social at Google, has been making the rounds in the blogosphere. It’s long (over 200 slides!) but well...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Comfortable Biosensors
In Kruzweil: EEG Biosensors that are comfortable enough to wear all the time. This could lead to many more analyses of 'base' conditions for neuromarketing studies...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Visual Programming Languages
There seem to be a growing number of visual programming languages available these days. Kodu (below) is for creating games by younger people. It
From The Eponymous Pickle