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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 Teachers Association
CS Teacher Job Opportuntity
We don't usually do job postings here on the CSTA Advocate blog, but this one is rather special and we want to let you know about the opportunity. Evan Glazer....
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: 500-Million-Year-Old Squid
Early squid: New Canadian research into 500 million-year-old carnivore fossils has revealed an early ancestor of modern-day squids and octopuses, solving the mystery...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Shallows
Nick Carr overviews his newly released book and provides some links to excerpts. ' ... The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains. ... draws on,...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: The Contents of Squid Stomachs
Not that interesting, really. Preliminarily, I can tell you that within my sample, cannibalism seems to be on the rise, myctophid consumption is falling, and a...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
DoD support of university research
Attached is a new DoD directive, reinforcing and clarifying the role of fundamental research at universities.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Value of Mobile Data
In MIT Tech Review: Mobile Data: A Gold Mine for Telcos, A snapshot of our activities, cell phone data attracts both academics and industry researchers. ... '
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Policy Highlights from Communications of the ACM - May 2010 (Vol. 53, No. 5)
Below is a list of items with policy relevance from the May issue of Communications of the ACM. As always, much of the material in CACM is premium content, and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Children More Likely to Own a Mobile than a Book
Are children more likely to own a phone than a book? Not sure what own means here, but I have certainly seen more children with phones than with books lately.
From The Noisy Channel
HCIR 2010 Submission Deadlines Approaching
Just a reminder to all of you HCIR people out there that the submission deadline for the HCIR 2010 Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
CRV 2010
The Seventh Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV 2010) is being held right here in Ottawa next week, and I'll be attending at least a couple of...
From Schneier on Security
Another Scene from an Airport
I've gotten to the front of the security line at a different airport, and handed a different TSA officer my ID and ticket. TSA Officer: (Looks everything over....
From Computational Complexity
The Structure (or lack thereof) of Data
Many of the various "proofs" of P≠NP follow a common theme: Define an NP problem with a certain structure. Argue that any algorithm that solves that problem must...
From My Biased Coin
Extension Results
At the start of semester, at one point I had 48 people signed up for my extension Algorithms and Data Structures course, which I said from day one would not last...
From The Eponymous Pickle
NYC Entrepreneurial Fund
Press release on the NYC entrepreneurial fund, via Rajesh Raichoudhury..
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kyield on Facebook
Kyield, with which I am associated, has a Facebook presence. ' .. Kyield is a software and communications system that revolutionizes the digital work environment...
From Schneier on Security
Low-Tech Burglars to Get Lighter Sentences in Louisiana
This is the kind of law that annoys me: A Senate bill to toughen penalties for crimes committed with the aid of Internet-generated "virtual maps," including acts...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Microsoft at ISTE 2010
Well the schedule for Microsoft sessions and events at ISTE 2010 in Denver is up. And I
From Putting People First
Usability and user experience in digital libraries
Lorraine Paterson and Boon Low of the UK National e-Science Centre at the University of Edinburgh highlight findings from the usability inspection report they conducted...
From Putting People First
Moving past user needs
Core77’s Allan Chochinov has published his reflections on IIT’s 2010 Design Research conference. Although there were about 30 speakers, Chochinov (who was a speaker...
From Apophenia