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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 U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Policy Highlights from Communications of the ACM - February 2010 (Vol. 53, No. 2)
Below is a list of items with policy relevance from the February issue of Communications of the ACM. As always, much of the material in CACM is premium content,...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Recognizing Excellence in Education
The TA Mentor program here at Carleton has been run in some departments for a few years now, but is in its first year in the School of Computer Science. One of...
From Computational Complexity
Is Math too hard?
Are humans good at Math? In the movie Oh God Book II God (played by George Burns) says that Math was a mistake, I made it too hard!. While I am reluctant to...
From My Biased Coin
Conflicts of Interest, Yet Again
I was just asked to serve on the ACM CoNEXT 2010 PC (I'll have to think about it -- NSDI,SIGCOMM, and CoNEXT all in one year?), and the chairs (Muriel Medard and...
From Schneier on Security
Me on Surveillance Cameras
My fourth essay for CNN.com, on surveillance cameras. The Al-Mabhouh assassination made a nice news hook.
From Putting People First
Content strategy
Content strategy is more or less on the same trajectory as social media was three years ago, argues Kristina Halvorson (of Brain Traffic). “I think it
From Putting People First
Streams of content, limited attention
Danah Boyd, a social media researcher at Microsoft Research, wrote a long piece for UX Magazine on “what it means to be ‘in flow’ in an information landscape defined...
From Putting People First
Women and mobile
Women & Mobile: A Global Opportunity is a study on the mobile phone gender gap in low and middle-income countries. Mobile phone ownership in low and middle-income...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Multiple Agent Decision Making
From the CACM, very instructive piece:Making Decisions Based on the Preferences of Multiple Agents, by Vincent ConitzerComputer scientists have made great strides...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wearable Patches Contain Scannable Code
Stan Dyck points me to this example of a scannable code that can be placed on clothing and then read from a smartphone. Cleverly called in the image an 'extended...
From Schneier on Security
Hitler and Cloud Computing
Funny video by Marcus Ranum and Gunnar Peterson.
From CERIAS Blog
Blast from the Past
Yes, I have been quiet (here) over the last few months, and have a number of things to comment on. This hiatus is partly because of schedule, partly because I had...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Analogies in the Classroom
I don't know about you, but when I teach I am constantly using analogies to relate computing concepts to real-world experiences the students are familiar with....
From Putting People First
Why can
Why not use the iPhone interface as the basis for a new round of Apple computers? What if Microsoft scrapped the front end of Windows 7 and the troubled Vista OS...
From Putting People First
For newspapers to survive, they must put users first
If publications continue to rely on selling advertising to support their costs, how does that serve the audience’s needs? Fast Company provides three ideas for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Podcast on Advanced BIS
From the Business Intelligence Network:Teradata and SAS Address the Challenges of Advanced Business AnalyticsRob Berman, Teradata Vice President, and Scott Van...
From Computational Complexity
Doing it OLD SCHOOL!
If you browse the Univ of MD Schedule Web pages for the last few years I would: Ask you why you were doing that. Seems like an odd use of your time. Point out...
From Putting People First
The Netherlands
Focusing on improving and innovating services is a smart way to foster economic growth. Jeneanne Rae reports from the Netherlands. “Recognizing the need to steer...
From Putting People First
Article series on futures thinking
Jamais Cascio, who covers the intersection of emerging technologies and cultural transformation for Fast Company, is in the process of publishing an ‘occasional’...
From Putting People First