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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
Bing App does Barcodes
I noticed in updates for the Bing IPhone App today that they were now allowing you to read barcodes and other images using a smartphone's camera. Then search for...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How Many Types of Programmers are there?
Paul Vick wrote a post called
From The Eponymous Pickle
Successful Software Platforms
In CACM: Successful Software Platforms are the Byproducts of Successful Businesses, by Ruben Ortega Most startup business plans I have encountered over the past...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Richer Bar Codes
Towards richer bar codes ... This is an evolution that has been going on for years, now we are in the midst of making it useful ..." ... A shopper in a self-scan...
From CERIAS Blog
Centers of ... Adequacy, Revisited
Almost two years ago I wrote in this blog about how CERIAS (and Purdue) was not going to resubmit for the NSA/DHS Centers of Academic Excellence program. Some of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
DemandTec and Target
We saw DemandTec during their early days as a revenue management system. An impressive and sophisticated approach. Gigaom posts a good article on their work with...
From Schneier on Security
The Real Risk: Traffic Deaths
The New York Times Room for Debate blog did the topic: "Do We Tolerate Too Many Traffic Deaths?"
From Putting People First
Intel transforming lives of senior citizens in 2050
This month Chip Chick, the site that focuses on technology for women, was invited by Intel to its annual Upgrade Your Life Event where the company presented what...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Teaching Reflection
I'm just about finished the Graduate University Teaching Skills Certificate (GUTS) program I took this summer. I also just had the last class of my first timeBinary...
From Computational Complexity
Foundational ... or simply a curiosity (Guest Post by Vijay Vazarani)
(Guest Post by Vijay Vazirani) Foundational ... or Simply a Curiosity? Conventional wisdom has it that whereas linear programs have rational solutions,...
From Schneier on Security
Buying an ATM Skimmer
Interesting: TM skimmers -- or fraud devices that criminals attach to cash machines in a bid to steal and ultimately clone customer bank card data -- are marketed...
From Putting People First
The reality of social media
In this post Adrian Chan “teases apart the objective and subjective dimensions of social media, to examine what
From Putting People First
Don Norman: the Want interview
“The ability to explain complex academic theories in palatable layman
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Multiple Paths into Computer Science
This started out as a comment on Mark Guzdial
From CERIAS Blog
Own Your Own Space
I have been friends with Linda McCarthy for many years. As a security strategist she has occupied a number of roles -- running research groups, managing corporate...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Scent Branding
The use of scent was covered nicely in the current Business Week. I have mentioned a number of times our work in the innovation centers installing, testing andposts...
From Apophenia
Upcoming fieldwork: What do you want to know?
I’m gearing up for a bunch of new on-the-ground fieldwork and intend to do a host of semi-structured interviews with American teenagers in different parts of the...
From Schneier on Security
Cheating on Tests, by the Teachers
If you give people enough incentive to cheat, people will cheat: Of all the forms of academic cheating, none may be as startling as educators tampering with children's...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson