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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 My Biased Coin
Advisors and Publications
There have been several interesting comments regarding the student/advisor relationship on my previous posts (here, here, and here) on co-authorship. It's clearly...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Not All Women's Groups Are Harmful
After reading Hilary Mason's Stop talking, start coding article, I was thinking about writing a reaction. It slipped my mind until Terri Oda wrote her piece Women...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-04-20
Women to blame for earthquakes, says Iran cleric If you are in any doubt about the size of the cultural gulf that separates societies on this planet, read and weep...
From Computational Complexity
Life without Flying
A reminder that registration for all three Cambridge conferences are now live: STOC (early registration deadline April 30), Complexity (May 3) and Electronic...
From Schneier on Security
The Effectiveness of Political Assassinations
This is an excellent read: I wouldn't have believed you if you'd told me 20 years ago that America would someday be routinely firing missiles into countries it
From Putting People First
Transition for display industry
Interesting, this point of view from the Samsung Economic Research Institute: “As demand for CRT display devices winds down and the penetration rates of TVs and...
From Putting People First
How do older people use e-mail?
Researchers at the Universidad Pompeu Fabra (UPF) in Spain have studied how older people interact and use email in their daily life. The study, conducted by Sergio...
From Putting People First
Emerging-market consumers are hard to reach
The Economist explores the topic of consumer research in emerging markets: “Emerging markets are far more varied and volatile than mature ones. There is little...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Librarians in the Information Age
A few days back I posted about the US Library of Congress saving all Tweets. I just came upon a book: This Book is Overdue ... by Marilyn Johnson. Which covers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lego and Adidas with Augmented Reality Packaging
An interesting example of Lego using extended packaging to excite potential buyers, partnering with Metaio, see also, related work with Adidas. 'LEGO Group Brings...
From My Biased Coin
Should Harvard's Intro CS Class Do Away with Grades
There's been discussions of late on the possibility of offering our intro CS class in two flavors -- a "graded" and "SAT/UNSAT" version. (Same class, just twoVolatile...
From The Eponymous Pickle
God as a Mathematician
Herman Wouk on God as a mathematician. Is it, as Wouk suggests: The Language God Talks ... "? . More on writer Herman Wouk.-
From The Eponymous Pickle
Low Cost Winners
In Harvard Business: The Secret Sauce of Low Cost Winners. " ... it is a culture that is "proud to be cheap" in good times and bad. Their people cut erasers...
From The Noisy Channel
Qui, Quae, Quora
A friend of mine at Quora invited me into their private beta a couple of weeks ago, and by now I suspect that many of you are using it–especially since I’ve somehow...
From Schneier on Security
Lt. Gen. Alexander and the U.S. Cyber Command
Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander, the current Director of NSA, has been nominated to head the US Cyber Command. Last week Alexander appeared before the Senate Armed Services...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of April 19
April 21 Hearing: The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on cybercrime and identity theft. This was previously scheduled for April 8. 10 a.m., 226...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Tennessee Moving Forward on CSTA Chapter
Tennessee is talking! Well, at least in a very small corner of Tennessee, Chattanooga to be precise, the community of Computer Science Educators is beginning to...
From My Biased Coin
Guest Post : Justin Thaler/New Paper
I'm happy to introduce Justin Thaler, a first-year graduate student at Harvard that I'm advising. You can find out more about Justin at his home page. Justin"Streaming...
From Putting People First
Ubiquitous service design
Peter Morville (pictured) and Jeffery Callender, who recently released the book
From Computational Complexity