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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
What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
On the list, but not on the stack yet. Nicholas Carr's new book: The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains . Look forward to reading it.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
The 10 Worst Practices in ICT Education
Excuse me if you have already found this gem, but I was sent this link and immediately formed a strong view that I'd like to meet Michael Trucano: http://blogs...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Android Pushes Ahead
I just bought two Android phones for the family. I am still using an IPhone. I have become interested in a comparison of the two options. This post has some...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smartphones Killing the PC?
Dangerous to say never, but Dell says that Smartphones will never kill the PC. I see it somewhat like calculators versus cash registers. There will always be...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Open EEG
For those interested in brain metrics, you can now utilize an open EEG project on Source Forge.
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Applying How We Learn to Computer Science Classes
While reading What the Best College Teachers Do by Ken Bain, I felt excited about how much the knowledge contained within could make computer science educationVisit...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid T-Shirts
Some nice ones (ignore the dinosaurs).
From Apophenia
Facebook and
At SXSW, I decided to talk about privacy because I thought that it would be the most important issue of the year. I was more accurate than my wildest dreams....
From The Eponymous Pickle
GIMP: Photo Authoring
Since leaving the enterprise I no longer have easy access to Photoshop. I have taken up GIMP, more here. It is very well done open source system: ' ... It...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Media and Business Intelligence
Short, common sense, but useful piece on the topic. You can only get what you measure.
From Schneier on Security
New Windows Attack
It's still only in the lab, but nothing detects it right now: The attack is a clever "bait-and-switch" style move. Harmless code is passed to the security software...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shopper App Goes Frugal
I have been keenly interested in ways to augment the shopping experience of consumers using smartphones and other devices. This blog has covered many such approaches...
From Computational Complexity
Goodbye PostScript
I was uploading a new PDF file up to my publications page and noticed that the paper also had a PostScript link but I didn't have an updated postscript file. So...
From My Biased Coin
The Value of Experiments
Several days ago Lance wrote about "Is Complexity Math or Science?", and in that context wrote "We don't do experiments...", which has caused me to overreact.I'm...
From Schneier on Security
Fifth Annual Movie-Plot Threat Contest Semi-Finalists
On April 1, I announced the Fifth Annual Movie Plot Threat Contest: Your task, ye Weavers of Tales, is to create a fable of fairytale suitable for instilling the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visa to Add Contactless Payment to IPhone?
The whole article shows how companies can back away from a press release. But why? In Storefrontbacktalk: ' ...Which is stronger: the curse of contactless payment...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lost as Hypertext Storytelling
I was involved in the early use of hypertext as a means of storing and retrieving knowledge. A number of hypertext systems existed before the Web. We constructed...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Failure to Upgrade
There was a funny movie out a few years ago called Failure To Launch. It tells the story of a man in his mid thirties who still lives at home. He doesn
From My Biased Coin