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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 Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Newsletters for Computer Science Teachers
Maybe you are the sort who likes their news to come on paper. Or perhaps you just like your news in regularly scheduled chunks. Perhaps you like someone to do gathering...
From Putting People First
Debunking the Idea of Digital Natives
The Economist questions whether it is really helpful to talk about a new generation of “digital natives” who have grown up with the internet. “Writing in the British...
From CERIAS Blog
Cowed Through DNS
May 2010 will mark the 4th aniversary of our collective cowing by spammers, malware authors and botnet operators. In 2006, spammers squashed Blue Frog. They made...
From Putting People First
Experientia
Over the last five years experience design consultancy Experientia has grown from new beginnings to a vibrant company with a large portfolio. To showcase our latest...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Lessons on Active Learning
On 2/18/2010 I went to a talk on getting students involved in classes even if there are 200 of them in the class. It was about active learning, and not surprisingly...
From My Biased Coin
Congratulations to David Johnson, Knuth Prize Winner
I'm pleased to hear that David Johnson has won the Knuth Prize for "his contributions to theoretical and experimental analysis of algorithms." David has done a...
From Computational Complexity
Can The Hill Cipher ever be used?
Alice and Bob want to sent a message so that even if Eve intercepts it, she cannot tell what it is. We will allow Alice and Bob a short private meeting to exchange...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Implications of Mobile in Retail
Have been members of the non-profit GS1 for many years, download their new excellent 34-page paper on Mobile retail. Also had a conversation with Joe Horwood today...
From The Eponymous Pickle
An Update on Google Knol
Around now since 2007, Google's Knol was described as a Wikipedia killer, but has seen little commentary for some time. I was surprised to see this article which...
From Schneier on Security
Tom Engelhardt on Fear on Terrorism
Nice essay. Similar sentiment from Newsweek.
From Putting People First
Changing environmental behaviour
Brook Lyndhurst, an independent research and strategy consultancy, based in London, UK, works on projects that are concerned with understanding, promoting and delivering...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What does it mean to be a computer geek?
Well Barbie has a new career as a computer engineer. She looks pretty cool in her Binary patterned blouse, Bluetooth headset, net book and PDA. Well there is that...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Who the heck got Universities into the email business?
My current employer, UQAM, refuses to allow email forwarding. Students would rather forward their emails to their existing GMail accounts, for example. And the...
From Computational Complexity
Knuth Prize for 2009: David Johnson
Dave Johnson Won the KNUTH PRIZE for 2009: click here I can't add much to the article linked to except to say that it is well deserved. The Wikipedia entry...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile Apps Changing Retail
A good set of examples in Adage of smartphone Apps that could change retail. Nice breadth of examples, all worth a look, though I would add others. There is still...
From Putting People First
UK innovation policy should refocus on customers
UK Government innovation policy should be refocused to reflect the crucial role played by customers in stimulating and funding the development of new hi-tech companies...
From My Biased Coin
Teaching Bloom Filters
As I finished my lecture today for my undergraduate algorithms and data structures course, after spending about half an hour explaining Bloom filters and what they...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Facebook will Reveal about You
I used to advise people in the early days of the Web about the dangers of revealing too much online. Things have gone far beyond those early days, but it is always...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Coupon Use Beats Newspapers
In Mediapost an intriguing post that further confirms the advance of the digital coupon. ' ... says the report, redemption values on its digital offering outstripped...
From The Eponymous Pickle