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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 Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: The Colossal Squid isn't a Vicious Predator
New research shows that, even though it's 15 meters long, it's not the kraken of myth: Its large size and predatory nature fuelled the ancient myth of the underwater...
From Schneier on Security
I Was Named as One of the Top 10 Science and Technology Writers
Someone named me as one of the top 10 science and technology writers of all time. Flattering though it is, I don't think I belong in the company of Einstein, Newton...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Point Them in a Direction and Get Out of the Way
I’ve heard Bill Gates talk a number of times about how influential his middle school experiences with computers were in his life. (You can hear him talk about it...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Young and Affluent Moving to Private Label
In MediaPost, Nielsen shows data that the young and affluent are moving towards increasingly better and more readily available private label offerings.
From My Biased Coin
Aldous/Diaconis: Longest Increasing Subsequences
For some research I'm currently doing, I ran across a truly wonderful "old" paper,Longest increasing subsequences: from patience sorting to the Baik-Deift-Johansson...
From Computational Complexity
Is Complexity Math or Science?
In March David Pennock promoted Computer Science as STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) a takeoff on STEM. There are aspects of computer...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-05-07
Investing And Asperger's Andrew Sullivan points to a fascinating article on Asperger's. The role of Asperger's Syndrome in the technology industry is reasonably...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Details of URLs
Have you noticed how much longer URLs have been getting? Its been a trend that has been going on for years. Have you wondered what all those things in URL mean...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Text Analytics
Good non technical overview of text analytics, often called unstructured data, text is not of course unstructured, but has the complex structure of language. That...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Emotional Design
Correspondent Mark Capper on What is emotional design?. Relates to other non conscious elements of emotion.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kraft and Coke Move to IVend
Kraft and Coke showcases touch screen vending machines. It is suggested that their machine design comes from the IPhone. Not sure I buy that
From Computer Science Teachers Association
What is Computer Science: Undergrad Perspective for High School Students
I get the pleasure of teaching a service-learning based course at the university each semester. Within this course, undergraduate students are trained to conduct...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
ACM Washington Update, Vol. 14.3 (May 6, 2010)
CONTENTS [1] Newsletter Highlights [2] Competes Act Reauthorization Gets Rolling [3] Open Government Plans Released and Guidance Issued on Social Networking [4]...
From My Biased Coin
Poll : Conference Acceptances
Consider your favorite conference(s). Do you think they're accepting too many papers, too few, or just right? (With SIGCOMM decisions out, STOC/EC/CCC coming...
From Computational Complexity
COLT and CCC no longer take papers in ...
The list of COLT papers are posted here. Carl Smith claimed that COLT was made possible because of THREE strands of learning theory coming together to form a...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Writing a To-Do List
On the effective use of a to-do list, in Fast Company.
From The Eponymous Pickle